David Geffen has filed for divorce from Donovan Michaels after lower than two years of marriage.
The leisure mogul, 82, tied the knot with Michaels, a former go-go dancer whose actual title is David Armstrong, 32, in 2023 in a non-public Beverly Hills ceremony. The pair, who stored their relationship personal, reportedly didn’t have a prenuptial settlement.
In keeping with a petition to dissolve the wedding, filed by Los Angeles lawyer Laura Wasser on Thursday, Geffen cited irreconcilable variations for the couple’s cut up. The 2 don’t have any youngsters.
The precise nature and extent of separate property and joined property are unknown to Geffen, in accordance with a courtroom doc.
Michaels will get spousal help, the submitting indicated. In California, it’s usually awarded for half the size of the wedding. The quantity Michaels, who may have his authorized charges paid for by Geffen, will obtain wasn’t listed within the courtroom submitting.
Geffen, who has a web price over $9.1 billion, per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, landed at No. 348 on the listing of the world’s wealthiest folks as of Might 20.
The mogul additionally co-founded the label Asylum Information in 1971 earlier than later founding Geffen Information and DGC Information. His movement image firm, Geffen Footage, additionally produced a handful of movies and TV exhibits, together with Private Greatest, Beetlejuice, Interview with the Vampire and Little Store of Horrors.
Then in 1994, he co-founded DreamWorks SKG with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg, earlier than DreamWorks Animation spun off to type a publicly traded firm a decade later.