Macaulay Culkin details night he called cops on father

Explaining his decision to involve the police, he added: “I just wanted him to know that I wasn’t going to let him get away with those kind of things anymore.”

Parents split in 1995

According to Culkin, his father – who managed his contracts and finances since he became famous – had gotten away with a lot.

Despite earning an estimated $50 million as a child, Culkin, now a father of two, has said he did not learn the true extent of his fortune until his parents’ custody battle in 1995 when it became clear his father had kept him completely in the dark about his own money.

“My father would hide newspapers from me so I wouldn’t read the stuff about him or find out how much I was making,” he said about Kit, who was known by filmmakers as difficult to work with.

Culkin then sought legal protection over the money he had earned.

Speaking to Esquire in 2020, the star of The Good Son clarified long-standing misconceptions about that period.

“We didn’t want to go with my father. It’s always misconstrued, that IContinue reading…