He’s in charge of balancing the nation’s books, but the White House’s lover-boy budget director, Peter Orszag, was once slapped with a lawsuit for not paying part of a $2 million divorce settlement to his first wife, court records show.
Orszag — who recently dumped the mother of his newborn daughter and took up with high-profile TV hottie Bianna Golodryga — also waged a protracted battle with his ex-wife over issues with their two young kids, according to court papers.
As the Post’s Web site first reported Wednesday, Orszag’s former flame, New York shipping heiress Claire Milonas, gave birth to baby Tatiana Rose in November — just six weeks before the nerdy number cruncher proposed to ABC News reporter Golodryga.
In a February 2008 suit claiming breach of contract, Orszag’s ex-wife, Cameron Kennedy, claimed the finance whiz “adamantly refused” to make a $300,000 payment to her that was due Jan. 31, 2008.
The payout was part of the couple’s 2006 divorce deal, in which Orszag agreed to give Kennedy an immediate $1.1 million payout, about $200,000 from a retirement plan and bank accounts, plus two payments of $300,000, to come at the start of 2008 and 2009.
Kennedy’s suit, filed in DC Superior Court, demanded the money, plus $16,506 in interest. Orszag made good, and the case was later dismissed.
“There was a disagreement between the two parties, which led to the court filing, but Mr. Orszag paid up almost immediately,” Kennedy’s lawyer, Gregory Nugent, told The Post yesterday.
A source close to Orszag said the payment was made “before he even became aware of the court filing.”
“Overall, this was not an acrimonious divorce, and the two of them remain on very good terms,” the Orszag pal said.
But in the months leading up to the missed 2008 payment, Kennedy and Orszag duked it out over “school calendars, attendance and homework” for their two kids, separate court documents show.
In those papers, filed in Washington family court in August 2007, Orszag claimed Kennedy’s “monetary demands” torpedoed “lengthy negotiations” for the kids’ summer schedule — which went unresolved after nearly two months of disputes and an “arduous” mediation session.
Orszag accused Kennedy of “repeated attempts to interfere” with his relationship with the kids and asked the court to OK a parenting coordinator as a middleman to stop a “deteriorating cycle.”
Kennedy, a manager at high-end consulting firm McKinsey & Co., blasted that request as “Draconian” in her own papers.
She claimed the situation was not “high conflict” — and noted that the couple exchanged more than 190 e-mails during the summer of 2007 on such topics as school open houses, soccer practice and “a potential infection in their son’s finger.”