MOVIES - Feb. 24, 1989

Comedian Richard Pryor was ordered to pay $4,500 a month in child support Wednesday for a 22-month-old son he fathered with a showgirl extra who said she lives in a roach-infested apartment. “I am all but destitute,” Geraldine Mason stated in a suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. Mason, who was represented by celebrity attorney Marvin Mitchelson, said that she and her son, Franklin, born in April, 1987, lived in a Houston apartment infested with mice and roaches and that she was unable to work. Mason met Pryor in 1985 on the set of the film “Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling,” in which she played a showgirl. Pryor, 48, had been making support payments of $1,000.