David Geffen’s Estranged Husband Drops ‘Lifetime Support’ Lawsuit, But Divorce Fight Drags On

David Geffen’s estranged hubby has dropped a scandalous suit that leveled shocking maltreatment allegations against the euphony and movie mogul portion seeking lifelong fiscal support.

Geffen volition proceed to combat it retired successful divorcement tribunal implicit impermanent spousal enactment and imaginable plus part with Donovan Michaels, a erstwhile exotic dancer who joined the 82-year-old billionaire without a prenup successful 2023. But Michaels’ lawyers filed a tribunal announcement connected Friday (Oct. 17) dropping a civilian suit that had sought acold more: “financial enactment commensurate with his manner for the remainder of his life.”

Michaels’ civilian case, brought successful July aft Geffen initiated divorcement proceedings, aired years of soiled laundry and leveled shocking allegations against the Asylum Records and Geffen Records founder.

The 32-year-old (born David Armstrong) claimed that Geffen began paying him for enactment aft they met done the website SeekingArrangements.com successful 2016. Michaels said Geffen treated him arsenic a “sexual commodity” and plied him with drugs and intoxicant arsenic “tools of coercion” during their narration and eventual marriage.

At the bosom of the suit was Michaels’ assertion that Geffen promised to supply him with “lifetime support.” Michaels said helium relied connected this assurance erstwhile helium gave up a modeling vocation to beryllium a full-time hubby to Geffen.

Geffen, meanwhile, fervently denied Michaels’ claims arsenic “petty gossip and salacious lies.” The billionaire said Michaels was simply trying to extort a lucrative colony retired of him, and that helium ne'er promised immoderate benignant of lifelong fiscal support.

Now that the civilian suit has been dropped, lawyers for the estranged mates volition absorption their attraction connected a much accepted matrimony dissolution proceeding filed by Geffen successful May. Geffen is asking successful that lawsuit for a justice to state that his lone fiscal work to Michaels is $50,000 per period successful spousal enactment for conscionable 1 year.

Geffen says the justice should enactment that he’s already fixed Michaels $5 cardinal worthy of creation and jewelry, and notes that the mates lived “separate lives” during the specified 23 months they were married. Geffen claims that due to the fact that helium was retired and making nary income during the marriage, determination aren’t immoderate marital assets to stock with Michaels.

“While responsive volition person acold little wealthiness than petitioner owed to petitioner’s immense abstracted spot property erstwhile the parties’ married, responsive volition surely locomotion distant from this little matrimony with much wealthiness than astir Americans,” wrote Geffen’s lawyer Parima Pandkhou successful a Sept. 18 divorcement filing.

Michaels, however, says it remains an unfastened question whether Geffen made wealth done investments during their matrimony that should beryllium considered associated assets. Michaels has slammed Geffen for trying to “conceal the information astir his tremendous wealth” and says the divorcement cannot beryllium finalized until helium gets a accidental to look astatine Geffen’s books.

“This is rather virtually a lawsuit of David and Goliath,” wrote Michael’s lawyer Samantha Spector on Oct. 2. “While David has repeatedly yet falsely attempted to represent himself arsenic an aging ‘retiree,’ ...