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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