Tycoons battle over kids’ $37K-a-month child support payments

A California investo🅰r on Tuesday lost a bid to lower support payments to his ex-wife after she claimed she needed $37,500 a month to pay rent to her new billionaire hubby for her teenage kids.

“I 🌟have and always will pay for all my childrenꦗ’s needs in excess, I just don’t feel it’s right for me to pay for half of Mr. Salzman’s mansion,” the investor, Andrew Left, told The Post.

Andrea Left last month married Alan Salzman, an early investor in Tesla who pocketed roughly $2.3 billion when the🐠 electric carmaker went public in 2010.

In Left’s 🌳pre-nup with Sal🃏zman, the 63-year-old founder of VantagePoint Capital Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, she promised to pay half the monthly upkeep of their $20 million Beverly Hills mansion.

But the 46-year-old newlywe🧸d has to share in the upkeep only as long as her t😼wo teenage kids spend more than 50 percent of the time in the home, according to the pre-nup.

In a 𝓰deposition last week, Salzman estimated that total household expenses — which include mortgage, taxes and gardening — would be roughly $33,000 a month, or $400,000 a year.

Andrea Left’s𒊎 portio🅠n, therefore, would come to about $16,666 a month.

Such an arrangement makes the upkeep payments seem like rent paymen🌃ts.

“It’s interesting that the new husband is specifying her contribution based on the time her kids are there, versus just saying each party pays half of the all household expenses,” Lauri Martin, a C🎀alifornia divorce lawyer not involved in the case, told ꦬThe Post.

Andrew Left argღues that ✨Salzman is effectively asking that his teenage kids pay rent.

With his ex now married to 💛a billionaire, Andrew Left went to court to try to cut his monthly child support payments to $10,000.

But a🌸 judge on Tuesday ruled in his ex-wife’s favor.

In addition to paying child support, Left said he fully funds the children’s tuition and health care — so♌mething he will continue to do.

The noted short-seller as recently as July has been shortinജ⛄g Tesla.

It iཧs usually difficult to lower child support payments.

He’s “not going to pay less because she remarried,” Martin said. “Each parent has an obligatioꦇn to support their children based upon their income.”

Andrea’s court victory on Tuesday wasn’t the first time she has won a court ba⛄ttle aꦿgainst her ex.

In 2009, one yea𓄧r after she divorced Andrew, An𒊎drea seemed to get married to her new love.

A wedding cere🍷mony was held, Andrea wore a🐷 wedding dress, and she told her kids she was getting married.

Andrew seemed♊ to be able to get out from under hefty spousal support payouts.

But Andrea never applied for a wedding license — so was not legal🦹ly married. She called it a “commitment ceremony” — so Andrew had to continue hiไs $32,547 monthly spousal support payments.

Andrea’s lawyer declined to comment.

For Andrew Left, whose short of Te🐼sla ha♛s been a big money loser, the court loss simply gave him another, more personal reason, to hate Tesla.

“Tesla investorജs find more than one way to stick it to short-sellers,” Left told The Pos𝔉t.

For Salzman, the court battle — and the question over him collecting “rent” from his wife for her two teenage kids — won’t help erase the feeling in some precincts about his penny-pinching.

One of those people who has gr♊iped about Salzman is Elon Musk, the chief executive and founder of Tesla.

In a 2015 book, “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future,” Musk said that Salzman “balked” at providing more funding to the fledgling car company. Salzman made Musk come meet him the next morning to pitch him again.

Despite his efforts, Musk said he🌳 w🉐as still denied.

“The only reason he wanted the meeting at his office was for me to come on bended knee begging for money so he could say, ‘No,’” Musk said in the book. “What a f**khead.”

Salzman did not ܫrespond to requests to comment. His lawyer, reached by phone, told The Post: “I am not going to talk to any newspaper about the work this firm does.”