Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash claims he accidentally overpaid his ex-wife, Perla Ferrar, $1.5 million in spousal support due to an accounting error. The guitarist, legal name Saul Hudson, has now filed a request in Los Angeles County court asking a judge to let him deduct the overpaid amount from his future payments.
Slash pays Ferrar $100,000 a month, along with additional quarterly amounts tied to his income above certain thresholds. A failure to adjust those extra payments over time led to the overpayment.
“Slash pays Perla $100,000 a month, plus additional quarterly amounts tied to his income above certain thresholds. He says his business manager failed to adjust those extra payments when the maximum Perla could receive dropped over the years, which he says led to the overpayments. The result, Slash claims, was $3.42 million in additional support each year when the amounts should have been capped in 2021, 2022, and 2023, which he says amounts to him overpaying by $1.5 million across the three-year stretch.”
Slash also addressed the matter directly in his court filing. He emphasized his compliance with the original judgment and the role his longtime business manager played in the miscalculation.
“I have faithfully supported [Ferrar] for the last 11.5 years, and followed our judgment with regard to the payments due to her. I have tasked my business manager, Pam Malek of Focus Partners, who has been working with me since 2015, with the calculation and payment of the funds due by me to [Ferrar].”
The court has yet to rule on Slash’s request to apply the alleged overpayment as a credit against his upcoming spousal support obligations.
This isn’t the first time Slash and Ferrar’s finances have made headlines. Their split traces back years. The financial terms tied to their separation have long been a matter of public record.
Slash and Ferrar married in October 2001. They share two sons, London and Cash. The rocker filed for divorce in 2014 after 13 years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.
The pair eventually reached a divorce settlement in 2018 that required Slash to pay Ferrar $6.6 million in cash, along with $100,000 per month in spousal support and $39,000 per month in child support. That agreement forms the basis of the payment structure now at the center of the current dispute.
Slash has made support payments for more than a decade. His latest filing marks a new chapter in the long-running financial arrangement stemming from his 2014 divorce.
