Billionaire David Geffen, 82, Information for Divorce from David Armstrong, 32, with No Prenup

Billionaire David Geffen has filed for divorce from his husband David Armstrong after lower than two years of marriage.

In response to the divorce submitting, which was obtained by PEOPLE, the 82-year-old music mogul and the 32-year-old dancer (who additionally goes by Donovan Michaels) didn’t signal a prenup earlier than marrying in March 2023.

Within the petition, filed in Los Angeles on Friday, Could 16, Geffen cites “irreconcilable variations” as the explanation for his or her break up.

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

TMZ was the primary to report the information.

In 1971, Geffen co-founded Asylum Data and he later based Geffen Data in 1980 and DGC Data in 1990. The mogul additionally co-founded DreamWorks Data in 1996. He’s now retired, and Forbes has reported that his internet value could also be round $8.7 billion.

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A lot of Geffen’s revenue consists of shares and equities in property, and California legislation states that dividends from shares stay separate, in all probability leaving Armstrong with out a lot money within the break up, in accordance with TMZ. Nevertheless, California legislation additionally requires divorce petitioners to pay spousal help for half the size of the wedding, which means that Armstrong would obtain funds for one yr.

Geffen can even pay his now-estranged husband’s spousal help and legal professional’s charges, per the submitting.

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Geffen was beforehand romantically linked to Cher within the Seventies, and later got here out as homosexual in 1992.

Though Geffen and Armstrong haven’t shared how they met, the New York Post beforehand reported that Armstrong, who used to work as a mannequin, dancer and health teacher, educated Geffen.

Though the 2 had been non-public about their relationship over the course of their marriage, Geffen shared photographs of himself and Armstrong on Instagram, together with in December 2021, when he posted a now-deleted photograph of the pair having fun with time collectively on his mega yacht, the Rising Solar (valued at $400 million).

“Merry Christmas certainly!” Geffen captioned the photograph.