Dr Dre’s wife of 24 years, Nicole Young, is seeking divorce from the Beats Electronics founder, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split.
Young filed the application against Dre, real name Andre Young, on Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Young is reportedly seeking spousal support from Dre, a music mogul valued at $800m by Forbes. The couple has two children, son Truice, 23, and daughter Truly, 19.
Dre, who did not sign a prenup with Young at the commencement of their marriage in 1996, also has four other children from previous relationships.
All had seemed well in the Young household when they made their last public appearance at a Tom Ford fashion show in February. A month prior to that, Dre had spoken glowingly about celebrating his birthday with his wife.
Largely regarded as one of hip-hop’s greatest producers of all time, Dre rose to fame from the streets of Compton in the 1980s in the groundbreaking gangsta rap group N.W.A.
The six-time Grammy Award winner built his empire as a music producer with Death Row Records and is the founder and chief executive of Aftermath Entertainment.
He later co-founded Beats Electronics, the high-end headphone and speaker company. He sold that company to Apple Inc. in 2014 for upward of $3,2 billion.
He is credited for being the force behind some of rap’s greatest artistes, including Snoop Dogg, Eminem and more recently Kendrick Lamar. Daily Mast
