Since Nicole Young claimed her husband, Dr. Dre, ripped up their prenup last spring—which he denies—the process of disentangling their marriage has only gotten messier.
In September, Young filed a gorgeous itemized list of her expenses, intended to justify her ask of nearly $2 million per month while she and Dre split. On it was $10,000 a month for laundry and cleaning; $20,000 for her cell phone and email. The judge eventually ruled that no, he did not have to pay. Dre accused her of embezzling $385,000 million. Young’s team has denied it and called the accusation a smear campaign.
Just at the beginning of this month, they argued over her security team, which she reportedly fired because Dr. Dre paid for it. The judge granted her the right to a new security team that can’t cost more than Dre was originally paying. Her legal team asked to move up a hearing about their attorney’s legal fees, but the judge denied it because, according to TMZ, he had more serious cases to attend to (Laura Wasser, Dre’s attorney, has stated that he’s willing to pay her fees, including security). The judge did invite Young to file a restraining order on Dre if she had concerns.
By the middle of the month, Young’s team alleged that Dre, et al., had not produced the “ironclad prenup” that Young claims she was intimidated into signing before they were married in the mid-’90s. The two were married before Apple bought Beats by Dre, and so should the 1996 prenup stand, she’d be getting boxed out of billions of dollars.
Now to close out October, Young is asking to subpoena three women with whom she claims he had extramarital affairs. They are, per the Daily Mail, Jillian Speer, a singer; Kili Anderson, the classic “model turned skin care entrepreneur”; and Crystal Rogers, better known as Crystal Sierra, musician (Dre has denied an affair with Anderson in 2013, and his legal team did not immediately respond to our comment request on the other accusations). All are trying to absolutely not get involved in the case. The lawyer the three women now share, Kris LeFan, filed a motion Tuesday that said these women have no “information relevant to the enforceability” of the premarital agreement.
LeFan, according to the Daily Mail, also argued that it doesn’t matter whether or not it’s true if Dre cheated outside his marriage; it’s “irrelevant because California is a no-fault divorce state and in a pleading or proceeding for dissolution of marriage or legal separation of the parties, including depositions and discovery proceedings, evidence of specific acts of misconduct is improper and inadmissible.”
The divorce started with a bang, and it would seem that the hits will keep coming throughout.
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