PICKING SUCCESS! Inside American Pickers’ Mike Wolfe’s girlfriend Leticia Cline’s $200K business empire featuring bar & motorcycle garage
PICKING SUCCESS! Inside American Pickers’ Mike Wolfe’s girlfriend Leticia Cline’s $200K business empire featuring bar & motorcycle garage
AMERICAN Pickers star Mike Wolfe’s girlfriend Leticia Cline owns a business empire worth nearly $200,000 in commercial property.
Mike, 57, has been dating model and entrepreneur Leticia, 43, since 2021.
The Sun can exclusively reveal Leticia is expanding her business empire by buying commercial real estate for $110,000 in her hometown of Cave City, Kentucky.
Leticia bought suites A and B of the two-story, 6,000 sq-ft brick building in July 2021.
Leticia filed a business license for Collins and Cline on January 23, 2022 for suite B.
Though she hasn’t announced what businesses she plans to open, the sales deed says “restaurant/recreation bar or lounge.”
Right next door is her bar, The Dive.
Leticia opened the “upscale dive atmosphere” eatery with her mom Debbie Passamore and sister Shannon Burke back in 2019.
Her mom currently owns the building, as he bought it in May 2019 for $38,000.
The journalist also owns Smiley’s Garage in Cave City.
Leticia and her sister Shannon bought the building in July 2018 for $20,000.
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Leticia has kept fans updated on her journey as she renovates the newly-owned building.
He showed off her 1930s wood flooring that she purchased at Southern Accents Architectural, a business boyfriend Mike has used on his personal home and motorcycle garage.
Leticia wrote on an Instagram video of the flooring: “Got my 1930’s Tuscaloosa general store flooring delivered today!”
She also posted her new Anderson windows, as she showed off the interior of the building featuring brick walls.
Leticia posted on her Instagram: “When I was a little girl I told my mom I was going to get rich and come back and buy my Hometown, Cave City. I didn’t come back rich but I can back full of ideas and the knowledge of how to achieve a goal.
“Since then I’ve opened a community motorcycle garage, a bar, renovating a 100 year old building into 4 more businesses and sit on city council… I’m proud of where I’m from and work endless to see it reach it’s full potential.”
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Leticia’s boyfriend has an empire of his own, as his real estate net worth is approximately $3,467,300 and features four mansions and 11 commercial properties.
Leticia began dating American Picker’s star Mike after his wife Jodi filed for divorce in November 2020 in Tennessee.
She cited irreconcilable differences as the reason of divorce after listing June 2020 as their date of separation.
In the divorce settlement filed in court and obtained by The Sun, Mike, 57, was ordered to pay Jodi, 50, a total sum of $634,000 in alimony.
The American Pickers star agreed to pay his ex-wife $5,228,878.73 to “provide for the equitable division of the marital estate,” according to the divorce settlement.
Jodi also received 50 percent of post-tax royalties earned by Mike for seasons 1-10 of American Pickers for the earning period before December 31, 2021.
The court papers claimed Mike is to receive one payment for the month of December 2021 for his work on Season 10 of American Pickers, as he shall pay her “exactly $28,000.”
As for their 9-year-old daughter Charlie, Jodi is the primary residential parent.
She will have custody of their daughter 230.5 days of the year, while Mike has her in his care for 134.5 days.
Mike had been ordered to pay $2,100 a month in child support, and to provide medical and dental insurance to his daughter.
Their divorce was officially finalized in December 2024.
