Famous London Chef Fails to Pay Child Support

A London chef famous for his charity work with African children has just been outed for neglecting to make child support payments for his own 16-year-old son. Bjorn van der Horst has been accused of failing to pay $93,000 in child support over the past few years.

The famous chef was just about to board an international flight when city sheriffs took him into custody at Kennedy Airport last week. When he was brought before a judge at the Brooklyn Family Court van der Horst was ordered to pay $57,000 and give up his passport. Yet this didn't give him a pass for freedom as he was brought back to "The Tombs," better known as the Manhattan Detention Complex.

Even though he is owner of Eastside Inn in London and reportedly makes over $15,000 per week, van der Horst is stingy when it comes to his son. The original court order for child support shows that van der Horst was asked to pay $2,950 a month; he only made payments totaling $800 last year and $1,500 over the previous years.

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