Nick Cannon Spends Millions a Year on Child Support Payments

Alyssa Scott recently shared maternity photos with Nick Cannon, announcing she's expecting, making this Cannon's 12th child. A few days after Scott shared her news, Abby De La Rosa and Cannon announced the birth of his 11th child, which he confirmed in an Instagram post, making this his third child with La Rosa.

He recently welcomed his ninth child, Onyx Ice Cole, with model LaNisha Cole in October, and on Sept. 30, 2022, his tenth, Rise Messiah, with Brittney Bell.

With all these kids running around, it isn't a surprise that Cannon's child support payments amount to more than most people make in a year.

According to The Sun, Cannon pays nearly $3 million in child support annually. The TV host has now fathered 11 children, with one more on the way from six different baby mamas. His first two children, Monroe and Moroccan Scott, are fraternal twins he had with ex-wife Mariah Carey in 2011.

Cannon and Carey divorced in 2016, and he has been busy procreating since then, mostly with models. Cannon now has more children than Elon Musk. He had two children with model Brittany Bell — Golden “Sagon” Cannon, born Feb. 21, 2017, and Powerful Queen Cannon, born in December 2020.

Twins must run in Cannon’s gene pool because he had twin sons Zion and Zillion Cannon with DJ Abby De La Rosa. A few days after the twins were born on June 14, 2021, model Alyssa Scott gave birth to another of Cannon’s sons, Zen Cannon, on June 23, 2021. Zen tragically died from a brain tumor about five months later.

Cannon’s eighth child, Legendary Love Cannon, was born in June 2022 to mother Bre Tiesi, who also happens to be a model. When announcing the birth of his child with Tiesi, Cannon expressed his love for all of his children.

"That sounds weird saying 'the next mother' because as everybody knows, I have a lot of children, and I love them all dearly, sincerely,” Newsweek reports Cannon said.

“Every single one of my children are just as special as the other. It's never a competition. Parents know what I mean when I talk about just the love that you have for a child, whether it's a child that's here, whether it's a child that's no longer here, whether it's a child that's grown, whether it's a child that's about to be here. It doesn't matter how many you have. It's this unconditional love, this godly-like love that comes over the process."

Little Onyx will likely cost Cannon another $40,000 a month in child support, the Sun reports. Not all of Cannon’s baby mamas receive the same amount of child support. Bell gets about $60,000 a month, Tiesi receives about $40,000 per month, and De La Rosa receives about $600,000 per year, the Sun reports.

Cannon continues to build his family, this time with Scott. The pair lost their five-month-old son, Zen, to brain cancer in 2021.

But even after number 12, believe it or not, Cannon may not be done having children.

Cannon better stop while he’s ahead because the bill for his child support payments may eventually put a dent in his net worth. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Cannon’s net worth is $20 million. His annual salary is $5 million, which is just a couple million shy of the estimated amount he pays in child support.