(5/5/03, 1 p.m. ET) -- New York radio personality Funkmaster Flex--whose real name is Aston George Taylor Jr.--agreed to pay $4000
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a month in child support on Wednesday (April 30), for his two year-old son, Dante, after a DNA test proved he was the child's father.
Flex, who is married to Monica Joseph and has one-and-a-half year-old daughter Jayden, initially denied that he was the child's father when approached by the child's mother, Haydee Diaz.
Diaz, who met Flex in 1998, maintains that he told her he was single. Diaz only learned Flex was married after reading it in the local paper. Diaz told the New York's Daily News, "I was naive."
According to court documents, Flex earned $200,000 last year.
Diaz's attorney Suzanne Kimberly Bracker explained how child support works in the New York courts. "And in New York state we have something called the Child Support Guidelines which is we look at the first $80,000 of combined parental income and we apply for this particular case it would be 17 percent and then anything above his income past and the combined parental income of $80,000 is discretionary with the court," Bracker said.
In addition to his radio gig, Funkmaster Flex has released four albums in his Mixtape series on Loud Records, each of which have sold more than 500,000 copies. In December 1999, Flex and his partner Big Kap released The Tunnel on Def Jam Records, and that set went gold as well.
Funkmaster Flex also owns and operates Franchise Records & Promotions and Team Baurtwell Racing, and has several endorsement deals with companies such as Nike and Lugz. Flex is also slated to host his own show on custom cars on TNN.