Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa says he’s fallen back down to Earth and makes only a small fraction of his 2009 career-high sala🌞ry of $688,000.
“Those were the days, when I was making that kind of money,” the law-and-order legend reminisced𒀰 from the witness stand at Manhattan Family Court on Mond💝ay.
He’s on trial over child support payments for h𓆉is special needs, 9-year-old son Ant﷽hony with his ex-wife Mary Sliwa.
He now lives withꦕ Quܫeens Borough President-elect Melinda Katz and their 2- and 5-year-old sons.
The crime-fighter turned radio ta෴lk show host says he can’t afford the $ꦗ12,000-a-month he’d been paying to Mary because his salary was slashed to $120,000 at the end of last year.
“I can no longer do that. I don’t even make that,” Sliwa told The𝐆 Post during𒊎 a break in the proceedings.
He is also paying child support to Katz, per a 2011 agreement he made with his then-friend. The former City Councilwoman had their 🤪children through in-vitro fertilization using Sliwa’s sperm.
“Melinda Katz is squeezing him for every dime ♋s🍃he can get,” said Mary’s attorney, Paul Siegert.
Katz is expected to take the stand on Wednesday.
Sliwa told Support Magistrate Margaret Morgan that he has no savings, no assets and had to bor🃏row $5,000 from his dad to pay for his divorce from Mary last yea🍬r.
The radio personality had to take a drastic pay cut after his employer, S🐎alem Communications, suffered damage duri🅘ng Hurricane Sandy.
Other than his volunteer crime-fighting, the colorful Curtis said his resumꦜe includes packing groceries, pumping gas and working as a manager at McDonald’s.
He founded the Guardian Angels in the 1970s as a band of civilian watchdogs patrolling the city’s mean streets and subways to help cops cut down on crime. The group, which Curtis still heads, now has chapters aro𝔉und the world.
His ex wife had ✤to give up her 𒈔$150,000-a-year position with the Angels following her divorce and now only makes $55,000, she testified.
She said she recently sold a diamond ring and gold jewelry for $13,000 to 🥀pay her bills. Mary Sliwa said she is in arrears on the mortgage for her $1.6 million Upper East Side apartment.
In a separate case filed iಞn Manhattan Supreme Court against Sliwa, Mary called her ex an “inveterate, worldꦚ-class liar” who was cheating on her with Katz while they were still married.
She alleges that he siphoned nearly a half million dollars out of their marriage and fu🅠nneled the money to his then-mistress.