Billionaire David Geffen, 82, Files for Divorce from David Armstrong, 32, After Less Than 2 Years of Marriage and No Prenup

Billionaire David Geffen has filed for divorce from his husband David Armstrong after not up to two years of marriage.

According to the divorce submitting, which was once acquired by means of PEOPLE, the 82-year-old track rich person and the 32-year-old dancer (who additionally is going by means of Donovan Michaels) didn’t signal a prenup prior to marrying in March 2023.

In the petition, filed in Los Angeles on Friday, May 16, Geffen cites “irreconcilable differences” as the cause of their break up.

The couple’s date of separation is marked as Feb. 22, 2025, and famous person divorce lawyer Laura Wasser is representing Geffen.

TMZ was once the primary to record the scoop.

In 1971, Geffen co-founded Asylum Records and he later based Geffen Records in 1980 and DGC Records in 1990. The rich person additionally co-founded DreamWorks Records in 1996. He is now retired, and Forbes has reported that his internet value is also round $8.7 billion.

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Much of Geffen’s source of revenue is composed of shares and equities in belongings, and California regulation states that dividends from shares stay separate, most definitely leaving Armstrong with out a lot money within the break up, in line with TMZ. However, California regulation additionally calls for divorce petitioners to pay spousal fortify for part the period of the wedding, which means that Armstrong would obtain bills for 365 days.

Geffen will even pay his now-estranged husband’s spousal fortify and lawyer’s charges, in keeping with the submitting.

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Geffen was once up to now romantically related to Cher within the 1970s, and later got here out as homosexual in 1992.

Although Geffen and Armstrong have no longer shared how they met, the New York Post up to now reported that Armstrong, who used to paintings as a fashion, dancer and health trainer, educated Geffen.

Although the 2 had been personal about their courting over the route in their marriage, Geffen shared footage of himself and Armstrong on Instagram, together with in December 2021, when he posted a now-deleted picture of the pair taking part in time in combination on his mega yacht, the Rising Sun (valued at $400 million).

“Merry Christmas indeed!” Geffen captioned the picture.