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Thursday, April 2, 2015

Bjork’s ex sues over custody of daughter


THE artist who broke Bjork’s heart is now suing her over custody of their 12-year-old daughter, claiming the flamboyant Icelandic songstress is hogging their child.
Their daughter, Isadora, wants to spend a balanced amount of time with each parent, says the dad, New York-based multimedia artist Matthew Barney.
But Bjork, who splits her time between Reykjavik and New York — and whose eccentricities have included sewing pearls into her skin and wearing a swan costume to the 2001 Oscars — is demanding a larger and larger share of the kid’s time, the dad complains, The New York Post reports.


His lawsuit, filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court against “Bjork Gunmundsdottir,” the avant-garde musician’s full name, seeks a more equitable custody schedule.

Bjork, 49, “is effectively sacrificing Doa’s emotional wellbeing in favour of her own selfish desires,” blasts Barney, 48, using the daughter’s nickname.

Bjork’s “self-focused mindset ... flows, in part, from her belief that as Doa’s mother, she has far greater rights than I do as Doa’s father; and, in part, from her insistence that I am solely to blame for the breakdown of our relationship and the end of our intact family,” the lawsuit says.

The 2013 end of Bjork and Barney’s 13-year relationship was messy, with Bjork bashing him in her latest album, Vulnicura, after he ran off with another artist he was working with.
“You betrayed your own heart/Corrupted that organ/Family was always our sacred mutual mission/Which you abandoned,” she wails in one song.

Equal time with mum and dad “is something which Doa — an articulate, intelligent 12-year-old girl — has stated, on her own initiative, that she wants,” Barney argues.
“As such, the needs and desires of the child are being given lower priority because of [Bjork’s] insistence upon having a greater amount of time with the child.”


Isadora spends her fall semester in Iceland with her mother and attends the prestigious St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights in the spring. She also has a personal tutor who lives wherever she does, the suit says.

Neither Barney nor Bjork would comment when reached on Wednesday.


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