Dr. Dre’s wife Nicole Young files for divorce after 24 years of marriage
AFTER 24 years of marriage, Dr. Dre and his wife, Nicole Young, have called it quits.
Nicole, 50, filed for divorce from the 55-year-old hip-hop artist and Beats headphones founder in Los Angeles on Monday.
She cited “irreconcilable differences” in the legal documents obtained by .
Dr. Dre married Nicole in 1996, and they share two children — son Truice, 23, and daughter Truly, 19.
The music producer also has four kids from previous relationships, including daughter La Tanya, 37, son Curtis, 38, son Marcel, 29, and late son Andre Young Jr., who died in 2008 at the age of 20 from a suspected drug overdose.
Nicole was previously married to retired professional basketball player Sedale Threatt — who played for the Philadelphia 76ers, Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, among others.
She was still with Sedale when she met Dr. Dre, and the hip-hop star allegedly wrote her a love letter to convince her to leave her husband for him.
After years in the music industry as a rapper, producer, and songwriter, Dr. Dre added entrepreneur and CEO to that list when he founded Aftermath Entertainment in 1996, the same year he and Nicole wed.
He launched the record label through Interscope Records and later sold his shares of the boutique label to Interscope for about $52 million in 2001.
In 2006, he co-founded Beats Electronics with Interscope co-founder Jimmy Iovine, and the company was purchased by Apple in 2014 for over $3 billion, with Dr. Dre’s cut giving him the largest single-year income ever recorded by a living musician.
The music producer has an estimated net worth of $800 million.
