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The recent rumors of Kanye West and Bianca Censori divorcing recently made headlines. Some say that this was a plot so Ye can divert the attention away from his ex-assistant suing him for assault.
As spotted on Page Six, an unnamed individual is claiming that the speculation of the celebrity couple parting ways is actually fake news. An alleged insider told Daily Mail that the hearsay was concocted by Kanye and his team. âKanye is concerned that his new lawsuit will drag him down to Diddyâs level and he has been speaking to his legal reps,â the tipster said. âHe is paying attention to what is going on with Diddy and some believe that the publicity stunt was a way of overshadowing the details of the harrowing lawsuit.â
Kanye Westâs former assistant Lauren Pisciotta says she was drugged and taken advantage of by her former boss during a recording session at a studio where Diddy was present. She claims she was offered a beverage âlaced with an unidentified drug.â She then says she felt âdisorientedâ and in âless control of her body and speech.â She woke up the next morning with very little memory of the day prior but says Kanye later admitted to her that the two had hooked up.
âStill to that day, up until that conversation and revelations of true facts and actions taken that night, Plaintiff did not know or think she was sexually assaulted that night, as Plaintiff only thought she was roofied by a studio assistant, likely embarrassed herself and then took the blame,â the lawsuit reads. While Pisciotta says Diddy was at the recording session, he is not accused of any wrongdoing.
Back in June, the rapperâs lawyers responded to the lawsuit calling it baseless. Kanye West and Bianca Censori have been married since 2022.
Ethan Slater and Lilly Jay are now legally divorced, TMZ reports.
The couple separated last year, after which the Broadway actor began dating his Wicked co-star Ariana Grande.
According to TMZ, Slater and his high school sweetheart â who share a young son â reached a settlement that was approved by a judge as of Thursday. Like all divorces in the state of New York, the terms of the agreement are sealed.
Billboard has reached out to Slaterâs reps for confirmation.
The news comes about a year and two months after reports first emerged of the Broadway actorâs romance with the âYes, And?â singer, whom he met on the set of Jon M. Chuâs Wicked films. A few days after news of his relationship with Grande surfaced, Slater filed to divorce Jay on July 26, 2023, after five years of marriage.
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Meanwhile, Jay told Page Six at the time: â[Arianaâs] the story really. Not a girlâs girl. My family is just collateral damage.â
The following September, Grande filed to legally end her marriage to luxury realtor Dalton Gomez two years after they tied the knot, logging their date of separation as Feb. 20, 2023, in the court documents. The Victorious alum and Slater have since kept their romance low-key, though the couple have been seen out in public together a number of times. In April, Grande supported Slater at his final Broadway performance of Spamalot, and in June, the pair attended the Stanley Cup finals together.
As for the public scrutiny sheâs faced for her relationship over the past year, the â7 Ringsâ star has remained diplomatic. Ahead of the release of her Billboard 200-topping album Eternal Sunshine, she acknowledged on The Zach Sang Show that the negative attention presented âan insatiable frustration, an inexplicable hellish feeling with watching people misunderstand the people you love, and you.â
A year after Joe Jonas filed for divorce from former Game of Thrones actress Sophie Turner, a Florida judge declared the former couple divorced and single. According to a copy of the agreement obtained by Billboard, on Friday a Miami-Dade County judge approved a confidential, moderated agreement between the two that splits their assets and details spousal support and custody of the pairâs two daughters, four-year-old Willa and two-year-old Delphine.
The sign-off came a year after the 35-year-old Jonas Brothers singer filed for divorce from Turner, 28, ending their five-year marriage. Judge Gina Beovides declared the marriage âirretrievably brokenâ and said the couple entered into a voluntary, confidential parenting plan and separation agreement that was in the best interest of the family. âSpecifically as relates to the partiesâ Parenting Plan, [Jonas] previously voluntarily dismissed all relief and claims sought in relation to said Parenting Plan,â read Judge Beovidesâ final judgement paperwork, dated Sept. 6.
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Before their split became acrimonious over a disagreement over custody of their children, the couple issued a joint statement last September in which they said they were parting on friendly terms. âAfter four wonderful years of marriage we have mutually decided to amicably end our marriage,â their announcement began. âThere are many speculative narratives as to why but, truly this is a united decision and we sincerely hope that everyone can respect our wishes for privacy for us and our children.â
At the time Jonas filed for divorce he deemed the marriage âirretrievably brokenâ and filed paperwork seeking joint custody of the children. The former couple first met in 2016 before tying the knot in two ceremonies in 2019, a surprise Las Vegas wedding in May of that year, followed by a lavish wedding at the next month in the South of France.
Weeks after Jonasâ divorce filing, English actress Turner sued her ex for custody of their daughters, alleging that the singer had engaged in âwrongful retention of of two children⌠from their habitual residence of England,â in a bid to force Jonas to hand over the girlsâ passports so they could join her in her native country.
At the time, the girls â who were born in the U.S. but have dual citizenship â were with Jonas in New York while he was on tour with the Jonas Brothers; Turner claimed that the couple had agreed to raise their children in England before the marriage fractured. She also claimed that she learned about the divorce filing through media reports, though he said they had discussed it several times.
In January, Turner dropped her âwrongful retentionâ suit when the pair reached a co-parenting agreement.
In the 24 hours after Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce from Ben Affleck, streams on the formerâs The Greatest Love Story Never Told documentary â which dove into the coupleâs rekindled romance after a 20-year split â skyrocketed. According to Luminate, U.S. viewership of the Prime Video flick jumped from 10.7k minutes watched on Tuesday […]
Jennifer Lopez has filed for divorce from Ben Affleck after two years of marriage, according to People and first reported by TMZ.
The documents reportedly list the date of separation as April 26, 2024, but were filed on Aug. 20, which marks the two-year anniversary of their wedding ceremony in Georgia. Lopez and Affleck have yet to publicly announce their separation.
Lopez and Affleck first began dating back in 2002 after meeting on the set of Gigli, the first of two movies they would star in together (the second being Jersey Girl in 2004), before getting engaged. The couple delayed their planned 2003 wedding before calling it quits in 2004. Just a month after the couple officially tied the knot in Las Vegas, Bennifer celebrated their marriage in August 2022 in front of family and friends at their home in Riceboro on the Hampton Island preserve outside of Savannah, Georgia.
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The marriage marked Lopezâs fourth wedding, following Ojani Noa, Cris Judd and Marc Anthony. Affleck was previously married to Jennifer Garner.
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âI never thought that he and I would get back together,â Lopez told Billboard earlier this year of her relationship with the actor. âI just just couldnât give up on idea that there was something amazing out there for me, even when it got really bad â and it did at times. I always believed deep, deep down to not give up completely. It wasnât until I got to the point where I was really OK on my own and not having to be in a relationship when I feel like universe kind of opened up and said, âWell here you go.ââ
She added of the duo sharing the astrological sign of Leo, âLet me tell you itâs fiery! Itâs great, and itâs challenging. We are both very willful. If you know what Leos are like, you know weâre passionate. Oh my God, so passionate, the both of us. One of us gets on a tangent about something, itâs like, âJust sit down and let him have his moment.â Or he needs to sit down and let me have my moment. We know each other in that way and weâre getting to know each other again, which is really beautiful too.â
Reports of trouble in the marriage began in the spring, when Affleck was notably absent from the Los Angeles and Mexico City premieres of Netflixâs Atlas, which J.Lo starred in. During a promo stop in Mexico City in May, a reporter asked, âIs your divorce with Ben Affleck real? These rumors?â
In video of the exchange, Lopezâs co-star Simu Liu jumped in and said, âOkay, weâre not doing that. Thank you so much guys, we really appreciate it. Thank you.â Lopez then looked at the the reporter and said, âYou know better than that.â
Billy Ray Cyrus and Firerose (born Johanna Hodges) have settled their divorce, according to a statement from the country starâs lawyers posted on his Instagram Monday (Aug. 5).
The message from attorneys Rose Palermo and Jason Talley states that the settlement was reached on Friday (Aug. 2) and that the ex-couple was declared legally separated three days later. âMr. Cyrus is relieved to put this nightmare behind him,â it reads. âFurther, a couple of weeks ago, prior to mediation, Ms. Hodges legally changed her last name from âHodgesâ to âCyrus.â Mr Cyrus feels that this validates his assertion that his ex-wifeâs sole impetus for marrying him was to obtain his last name.â
The post also included a statement directly from the âAchy Breaky Heartâ singer. âIâm just very relieved,â he wrote. âThis has been absolutely the most crazy insane scam I have ever heard of ⌠Not only was it a web of lies that put me in physical danger ⌠it was a matter of the heart. Love is blind ⌠thatâs for sure.â
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A source close to Firerose countered in a statement shared with Billboard: âIf this went to trial, Firerose and her team would have provided a significant amount of evidence to prove he fabricated a narrative that would benefit his public image. There is no doubt she would have been awarded the divorce, but it was much more important to her that this continuous smear campaign end, and the emotional turmoil stop so she can close the door on this chapter and recover from her surgery peacefully.â
The source also said that the Australian singer chose to settle for $0, wanting to end her association with Cyrus once and for all. They added that Firerose filed for Cyrusâ last name shortly after they wed â not a couple of weeks ago, as the Hannah Montana star claimed.
Cyrus filed for divorce on May 22, citing âirreconcilable differencesâ and âinappropriate marital conductâ seven months after the couple married. In a follow-up filing on June 13, Cyrus requested an emergency motion accusing Firerose of making nearly $100,000 in unauthorized âfraudulentâ credit card charges while seeking a temporary restraining order to stop her, accusations her attorneys labeled âuntrue.â
After Cyrusâ divorce filing, Firerose accused him of domestic abuse, saying he was psychologically abusive during their marriage and calling the country star âunpredictable and volatileâ due to alleged substance abuse. She also claimed that he filed for divorce one day before she was scheduled to have a preventative double mastectomy. In a statement shared with Billboard, Cyrusâ lawyers âvehementlyâ denied the allegations and said that while he was âcertainly vocal, frustrated and angry ⌠it is the plaintiff who, in fact, has been abused. Not only verbally and emotionally by the defendant, but PHYSICALLY.â
The source close to Firerose, however, claims that in a former marital dissolution agreement, Cyrus had included a clause asking her to say she was lying about having BRCA, a.k.a. the âbreast cancerâ gene. The source claims it was thrown out after Firerose provided her test results and medical records proving otherwise, adding that her surgery is set for later this month.
In July, a 90-second audio clip of Cyrus berating Firerose for apparently making him late to a function leaked online. âOf course, she was intentionally on her best behavior since she knew the recording was being made,â Cyrusâ attorneys responded to the leak in a statement shared with Billboard. âIf Mr. Cyrus was truly the person that Ms. Hodges desires the court of public opinion to believe with the release of her one-sided recording, then it is mindboggling to try and explain why Ms. Hodges begged to return to live with him and for Mr. Cyrus to give her a chance to âexplain everythingâ after he filed to annul or dissolve their marriage.â
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Grand opening, grand close. Cardi B has reportedly filed for divorce from her husband, Migos rapper Offset, again.
The coupleâs relationship has long been considered tumultuous at best thanks ever present rumors of infidelity, so social media is having a field day at the news, and the circumstances.
Page Six reports that the Bronx rapperâs decision to call it quits was confirmed by her rep. Reportedly, they tried to work things out at the top of the year, but they couldnât get to a better place in their relationship, allegedly. A source claims that the latest rumors of Offset cheating is not what sparked the divorce.
âTheyâve grown apart. Thatâs what drove her to this decision more than anything else,â the source told Page Six. âThis is something she wants to do.â
Cardi is reportedly seeking primary custody of their two children, daughter, Kulture, 5, and a son, Wave, 2. Recently, the Bronx was spotted in New York City, hiding what looks like a prominent baby bump. However, she has yet to confirm if she is pregnant.
Although the couple was married in September 2017, since then they have separated multiple times (she filed for divorce in 2020, but it didnât take), with their spats often being made public, usually by themselves. In late 2023 she shared that she was âsingle for a minuteâ but they were spotted out on a date since.
If thereâs one thing social media always goes up for, itâs Cardi B and Offset drama, and todayâs divorce revelation is no different. Peep some of the crazier reactions (the Offset slander isâŚintense) in the gallery.
Cardi B has once again filed for divorce from Offset, her rep reportedly confirmed to Page Six. The news comes after seven years of marriage between the two hip-hop titans. The âWAPâ artist reportedly filed on Wednesday, requesting primary custody of their 5-year-old daughter Kulture and 2-year-old son Wave. Billboard has reached out to both […]
Maren Morris is in the process of healing, and that means sheâs closing the door on love â for now. Ahead of the Friday (July 12) release of her new song âI Hope I Never Fall in Love,â the singer-songwriter opened up about what inspired its lyrics: indulging in a simple âsituationshipâ post-divorce.
âItâs pretty self-explanatory from the title, having just gone through a giant breakup,â Morris said of the track in an Instagram Reels video posted the day prior to its arrival. âJust not wanting to go down that path again, and wanting to keep things casual, and really just lean into the âsituationshipâ of it all.â
âYou get to scream the chorus, and I canât wait to sing it live with everyone,â she added.
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The Evan Blair-produced song comes about 10 months after Morris filed for divorce from fellow songwriter Ryan Hurd, with whom she shares 4-year-old son Hayes. In her Oct. 2 filing, Morrisâ lawyers stated that the ex-couple was âunable to live together successfully as husband and wife,â and were âexperiencing irreconcilable differences in their marriage.â
After âI Hope I Never Fall in Loveâ dropped, the vocalist once again explained the songâs meaning in a follow-up Instagram post, noting that itâs about âthe afterglow of a sâtshow.â âitâs a bittersweet heartbreaker because Iâm in self-protection mode but still want to feel things,â she continued. âthrowing parties, going home with a stranger, popping champagne⌠whatever we need to do to process our pain, itâs not always a pretty road to healing.â
âi, of course, DO want to fall in love again, but I canât put my heart through it just yet,â she added. âso hereâs a number about this strange but constructive (and destructive) window of my life. out everywhere now. â¤ď¸âđŠšâ
The track will appear on Morrisâ upcoming EP Intermission, which is slated for Aug. 2. In June, she dropped another song from the five-track project: âCut!â featuring Julia Michaels.
Watch Morris open up about âI Hope I Never Fall in Loveâ below.
Billy Ray Cyrusâ divorce from Firerose continues to get uglier. The âAchy Breaky Heartâ singer took to his Instagram Stories on Sunday (June 30) to share a clip of the word âFraudâ over a flame with rose petals falling down the screen â seemingly an indirect reference to Firerose (real name Johanna Rose Hodges), though […]