Ne-Yo is over his estranged wife Crystal Renay Smith who started her month off right and filed to divorce him on August 1 in Atlanta, Georgia. She listed the date of marriage as February 20, 2016 and the date of separation as July 22, 2022.
According to the divorce documents, Renay alleges that the “So Sick” singer recently fathered a child with another woman.
Now Neyo is playing hardball, demanding joint physical custody of their 3 children.
According to court documents obtained by RadarOnline.com, the singer agreed that his marriage is “irretrievably broken with no hope of reconciliation.”
Ne-Yo objected to Crystal’s request for temporary and permanent alimony along with primary custody. He said they should share joint legal and physical custody. The music producer said he should pay child support but scoffed at the idea of spousal support.
Ne-Yo said he is an “active and loving Father to his children.”
“[Ne-Yo] asserts that he is financially, physically, and emotionally capable of serving as a joint physical custodian of the parties’ three minor children alongside the [Crystal].”
Further, Ne-Yo asked for both parties to pay debts solely in his or Crystal’s name.
He demanded the exclusive use of the marital home in Georgia as “he has been solely responsible for the mortgage and maintenance of this property since the date of purchase.” The singer said he purchased 3 properties during the marriage and maintained them by himself.
Ne-Yo wants Crystal’s lack of contribution considered when the assets are divided up.
The singer admitted he is an established professional entertainer while Crystal had been “formally unemployed at times during the marriage.” Ne-Yo said Crystal’s image and earning potential “has benefited significantly due to her personal association with the Respondent and his career.”
As a result, Ne-Yo said, “[Crystal] possess the considerable ability to procure stable and consistent employment at this current time and following the dissolution of the marriage.”
The singer also wants Crystal to pay her own legal fees.
The two share three minor children Shaffer Smith Jr., Roman Smith and Isabella Smith. Crystal said she wanted primary custody of their kids with Ne-Yo being awarded joint legal custody.
In her petition she said she “is entitled to a divorce from [Ne-Yo] upon the ground that the marriage is irretrievably broken with no hope for reconciliation.” She adds, “[Ne-Yo] has committed the act of adultery.” Crystal accused her ex of having a baby with another woman.
Crystal demanded temporary and permanent alimony in both child and spousal support. She told the court she relied on Ne-Yo’s money to pay the bills since they agreed she wouldn’t work.
“[Crystal] requests that [Ne-Yo] be solely responsible for any and all debts and obligations independently acquired by [Ne-Yo] and that [Ne-Yo] hold [Crystal] harmless for any such debts or obligations,” the filing read.
Crystal’s petition demanded Ne-Yo cough up $25k to cover her legal fees.
On July 30, Renay shared a post on Instagram alleging NE-YO was unfaithful to her in their marriage and that the pair’s years-long relationship is now over. NE-YO, on his part, said he will not comment on “personal matters.”
“Eight years. 8 years of lies and deception,” Renay wrote in her post, which has since been taken down along with her entire account. “8 years of unknowingly sharing my life and my husband with numerous women who sell their bodies to him unprotected…every last one of them!”
“To say I’m heartbroken and disgusted is a[n] understatement,” her message continued. “To ask me to stay and accept it is absolutely insane. The mentality of a narcissist. I will no longer lie to the public or pretend that this is something it isn’t. I choose me, I choose my happiness and health and my respect.”
“I gained 3 beautiful children out of this but nothing else but wasted years and heartache,” Renay added.
Some men will continue taking care of their wife even when he’s no longer in love with her. But most men won’t.
While I honor women who are 100% feminine, have a husband who provides, and she doesn’t work, I had to start honoring my own personal beliefs.
When a man is IN LOVE with you, he will do anything for you. That’s the time to deeply relax into your femininity, rest, take a break and then come up with a well thought out business plan and execute.
It’s not the time to believe you made it and get knocked up with 20 kids. It’s the time to understand you’ve successfully created a great opportunity for yourself to financially thrive and build a legacy.
There must be a balance between yourself, your business, your children, your household, and the man you love.
When we see women like Crystal who get snatched from the strip club into the exact rich, celebrity life she dreamed of, initially she’s grateful and will accept any behavior from a man. But the longer she stays, the more kids she has, the more she falls deeper in love and becomes invested.
Eventually she builds a name for herself and wants RESPECT. Those of us who have large, visible online brands can’t afford to be disrespected by a man’s infidelities.
Once she’s popular, she will no longer keep putting up with his ish, due to public embarrassment.
Thinking of the Wendy Williams situation. She was willing to keep the man until the public found out that he’d bought a house down the street for his public mistress. It’s the public eye and humiliaton that often forces women to love themselves and own their truths.
In each case, a man is only going to treat you the way you let him. Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez are two women who don’t play.
Someone once told me that there is something wrong with a woman who doesn’t trust a man to 100% provide for her. That woman did that, until years later she started her business and retired her husband.
I disagree. There is everything right with a woman who doesn’t trust a man to provide for her forever. After all it’s really God providing through a man. Sometimes it’s time to get a new man. The more financially stable and independent a woman is the better choices she has in men; when she works on her femininity too.
In this case despite coming up off of Neyo’s name, Crystal hasn’t done much for her business brand. Chances are the judge will grant her at least $25,000 a month. Divorce laws are made to stop men from completely wasting a woman’s time. As he can always go get a younger woman, as reports say he already has.
Crystal will probably get on a reality show and create more income. At the end of the day, the embarrassment pays. Yet there are non celebrity boss chicks who make a ton of money and are married to every day men.
Sidenote: It’s funny that people have been calling Neyo gay for years. Meanwhile he’s been having sex with multiple women without a condom, according to Crystal.
Communication is the most important part of maintaining a relationship. When the individuals inside the relationship fail to communicate their wants, desires, and needs properly, on top of being their authentic selves, the relationship is bound to fail.
On the reality tv show Love & Marriage: Huntsville Martell Holt’s actions made him out to be the villain in many viewers’ eyes.
Martell Holt said his marriage to Melody Holt didn’t work out because he wasn’t getting all he needed in their bedroom. Plus, the “Love & Marriage: Hunstville” star feels as if marriages also don’t work out because women can be too argumentative.
Before Destiny Payton-Williams confirmed her divorce from La’Berrick Williams, Martell told her that her marriage would eventually be tested because he felt she had too much mouth. Fans of the show accused Martell of being misogynistic, but Martell stood firm on Instagram and said what he stated is backed up by divorce statistics.
Melody said that the reason for the divorce was not only cheating, but also years into the marriage she noticed that Martell, 40, had not matured.
Martell a successful custom home builder turned reality TV star’s 7-year affair led to the demise of his marriage to Melody Shari. Now, Martell says his mistress didn’t provide half of what he received from his wife.
He regrets his affair, explaining Melody gave him the majority of what he needed/wanted but he desired more.
Martell alleges that he complained to Melody about her not giving him enough attention, focusing too much on work, not cooking enough, and not satisfying him sexually as often as he preferred. As a result, he sought what he says he was lacking in his marriage from another woman.
He eventually entered into a seven-year relationship with Arionne Curry, and the two have a son conceived while he was still married to Melody.
In fact, Curry’s son and Martell and Melody’s youngest daughter aren’t even a year apart.
In retrospect, Martell says he wouldn’t have made the same decision. He also explained that in the grand scheme of things, Melody was giving him more of what he yearned for.
“I think that was very foolish of me to do such a thing. But at that time, I wasn’t thinking like, oh my wife she’s giving me 85 percent and she’s giving me 15 or whatever,” he said.
He continued, adding that his decision to cheat was immature at best. Looking back, he wishes he would have handled things differently.
“I wasn’t thinking like that. If I would have thought like that, I don’t want that d*mn 15 percent,” he said. “I’ma stick in this house and sit my a*s down somewhere. But that wasn’t the case. I think that I just wasn’t thinking.”
Earlier in the interview Martell was asked about his experience with rejection and the way he handled it. To which Martell responded that his ex wife used to reject him, and he responded by cheating.
Holt says he felt like he had no choice but to. He had the discussion with his wife about what she wasn’t doing, like “she wasn’t cooking and I couldn’t have sex whenever I wanted it, so that really pushed me out the door. But I had to ask myself the reason why she was rejecting me.”
Before he could finish the full statement as to HIS PART and WHY his wife was rejecting him, the host interrupted him to ask how long was it between deciding to cheat and actually doing it.
Holt says the night before he met his new girlfriend, he and Melody got into it, where she told him to go get a girlfriend.
Holt: She said “Go out there and find you a girlfriend. That got into my spirit apparently, cause that night I met the girl and I told her “I want you to be my girlfriend.”
He loved that his girlfriend provided him with comfort, listened to him and respected him as a man, catered to him and stroked his ego. Holt says he needed those things.
In the beginning he felt getting but as time progressed he felt less guilty and it became the norm.
Martell said that in his marriage his wife didn’t complain about much, but he was the one complaining. Therefore he was able to have a 7-year-long affair with another woman before the marriage was dissolved.
Martell says he communicated but his wife later said “You should’ve grabbed me, and sat me down and told me that if you don’t take care of me, that I’m going to go out and cheat on you.”
Martell then explains that it was her fault for not communicating and that he was tired of having to go out with the kids to get food, because she wasn’t feeding him.
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Always give 100% in your relationship. If you can’t do that, don’t be in it.
To give 100% means:
1. Only get in a relationship with someone you have the deepest love for.
2. Ground yourself in that love and speak from that place
3. Ground yourself in SELF-LOVE
4. Be authentic about what you want. A person can not serve the needs you hide from them
5. Pay attention to your partner and know what they need before they do.
Ultimately the difference between a woman and a man is a woman will stick around to not get her needs met. But most men are going to go find SOMEONE to meet their needs. Even if that means stepping outside of the relationship.
While women often place their BUSINESS SUCCESS first in a relationship, the average man cares more about sex and getting his ego stroked. He will literally tear his entire empire down just to be sexually pleased by a woman with half the brain. For most men it’s all about the femininity and pleasure, not the knowledge in a woman’s brain.
As Xzibit struggles financially he believes it’s absurd for him to pay his estranged wife spousal support … he says he’s struggling to make ends meet while she’s living in their $3 million home with her new boyfriend.
The “Pimp My Ride” star just filed a response to Krista Joiner‘s legal docs seeking spousal support in their divorce … X says he simply doesn’t have the cash because a huge chunk of his income dried up during the pandemic.
According to TMZ, 47-year-old Xzibit says in new documents, he’s no longer the breadwinner he was before the divorce … claiming he hasn’t worked in Hollywood since 2019, isn’t getting any money from his cannabis ventures and lost tons of income when COVID scuttled the concert scene.
X who according to Celebrity Net Worth has a networth of $2 Million says in the docs he’s “struggling to make ends meet at the same time trying to uphold being a public figure, pay my own expenses and provide for my son.”
Xzibit paints Krista, 48, as someone who is doing just fine without spousal support … he says her recent income was around $175,000 a year and claims she’s living in their home with her new boyfriend and the man’s kids.
X says Krista’s boyfriend has been bragging about the digs on social media, filming a pilot in the home and taking down Xzibit’s artwork and recording plaques.
Xzibit says he asked Krista to agree to sell the home after she filed for divorce in February … but he says she only recently agreed to unload the property and now the housing market is starting to cool.
X says the home is estimated to be worth $3.7 Million … but he thinks they could’ve sold for a higher figure if she played ball earlier, and says they had to take out short-term loans to pay the mortgage pending a sale.
Oh, and get this … Xzibit claims Krista went behind his back to obtain a new lease on a 2021 Bentley and signed for the lease under his company name, Xzibit Inc., even though she’s not an exec there. He also alleges she forged his name on a check for the down payment.
X says he told Krista to return the Bentley because he couldn’t afford the car and insurance payments, but says she refused and hid the car for 8 months before it was repossessed in January … only a few weeks before she filed for divorce.
A day after his wedding Xzibit revealed how he never took women seriously before he met his wife, ” There was a time I thought I would NEVER get married. I thought that being single was the only way for me, not knowing that I was giving up more of myself to people who didn’t care about me or love me unconditionally. I had to do a LOT of growing up and over time came the maturity I needed to be able to make a commitment stronger than anything that I have done in my life outside of being a father to my two beautiful sons. Yesterday, I made my family complete.”
A few notes/lessons to take away from this story.
Imagine the line of women that Xzibit dealt with whose time was wasted… Another reminder that if he’s not ready, he’s not your guy.
This story appears to be a mismanagement of time, skills and resources. Once you’re on tv and large amounts of money is seemingly coming in non-stop it’s time to seek out good investment advice.
Once a man is tired of you, most times, he’s done taking care of you.
Men do a lot of things during their marriage. They lie, they cheat and deceive. Sometimes men even abuse women so she ends up wanting to take half from him in the end.
We don’t know if that’s the case with Xzibit.
When it comes down to marriage we see two things. We see masculine women who later must provide for their ex-husbands and we see masculine men having to provide for their feminine ex-wives.
Each person provides or is provided for based upon their own personal brand equity. Life doesn’t work the way it used to. Now days each person has to build their own personal brand and make it so valuable that your presence attracts millions of dollars.
This is a skill…
Not to mention, they always say how you get her is how you keep her. Xzibit knows the game. He can no longer afford to provide for his wife and keep her in the lifestyle he started her out at.
But at the end of the day, no married man should be able to claim he is struggling. That doesn’t make sense, unless you were unequally yoked. In this case having a boss chick as a wife is a better idea. She could show Xzibit right now how to get on the internet and make a few hundred thousand a month minimum.
Men want a feminine woman, so income to continue being the boss is important. It costs to keep every woman except the 50/50 woman who is the least valued by men.
This child support battle between Grey’s Anatomy star Jesse Williams and his ex-wife Aryn Drake-Lee is sooo messy.
Aryn plans to represent herself after deciding to drop her divorce attorney Merissa V. Grayson . She has informed the court she plans to represent herself in her battle to increase her child support payments.
The decision to change up her strategy comes weeks after she suffered a huge loss in court. As RadarOnline.com first reported, Jesse and Aryn have been fighting over his child support payments since December.
The actor had been paying $40k a month for the two children he shares with his ex — a number that was reached based on his 2019 income of $6 million+ when he was appearing on the ABC drama.
Late last year, Jesse filed a declaration under seal explaining his dire financial situation. He said since leaving Grey’s in early 2021 — to explore other career opportunities — he had yet to lock down a lucrative acting role.
“My current income is far from sufficient to maintain a $40,000 per month child support number, especially since I still pay one-half of the children’s private school tuition, the children’s extracurricular activities, medical care, and all of their expenses when they are with me including child-care and my own expenses,” he claimed.
Jesse is currently starring in the Broadway show Take Me Out where he only receives $1,600 a week. Aryn scoffed at the plea to reduce the child support obligations.
He also accused Aryn of having, “spent thousands of dollars on failed or failing businesses while failing to seek gainful employment despite having an Ivy League degree, speaking 3 languages, and having a wealth of competitive real estate experience.”
The Hollywood star said his ex should get a job and help cover the costs of raising their kids.
She argued Jesse’s decision to leave a high-paying job meant he was selfish and put his own needs ahead of his children.
The court ended up siding with Jesse and temporarily slashed his child support payments down to $6k. The exes are set to appear in court in August to fight for a permanent order on support — where Aryn will demand the amount be increased substantially.
Jesse seems to be a messed up kind of guy. Talking about her many failed businesses was not cool. It takes bravery to build businesses, and they don’t always take off as fast as you would like.
As to her having an ivy league degree, he may be right that she can get a great job. In fact, she can get a 6 Figure job. But that’s neither here nor there.
The real juice here is that she took care of this man and supported him in his desire to become an actor. Women do not like listening when told not to build a man. But this situation is what happens nearly every time.
Jesse sees Aryn as a PROVIDER, and not a soft feminine woman who needs to be luxuriously provided for. He covers the cost of the kids and that’s that.
Let this be a lesson to get a man who provides, and build a successful business during that time.
Nick Cannon still hasn’t healed from his relationship with Mariah Carey. It appears the singer is running from himself while believing to have found himself.
The superstar recently appeared on the “It’s Tricky with Raquel Harper” podcast, and he revealed how his failed marriage with Mariah Carey makes him feel like he’s not built for marriage.
He referred his failed marriage to Mariah Carey when the topic about potentially marrying one of his 5 baby mamas’ came up.
“That to me was one of the greatest experiences of my life, and for that to have come to an end, as well, is like why would I go back if I couldn’t make THAT work out right?…
I think once I gave my all to a scenario… going forward I’d have to be presented with something that I’ve never seen before or never experienced.
In order for me to be willing to go back to do something like that because, it’s almost like, yo, I did my best in this space.
And now I feel like there is a new journey in my life which is different experiences that I have to see.
But I’m not going to backtrack and put myself in that position again because it doesn’t get any better than that.
Marriage and all that goes into that is so… It’s a lot, I mean everybody who is married knows what that is.
You’re literally entering a partnership that says where two becomes one.
And I know I’m not built for that.”
After calling Carey one of his “best friends,” for whom he has “so much respect,” Cannon admitted he’s “probably still going through it” and hasn’t fully healed from their divorce.
“Divorce is a sense of, ‘You failed,’ and when you have that level of failure with everyone seeing it, it was a lot on me for a long time,” he said. “I didn’t really know how to process it. I had to go find myself. I had to go within.”
From there, Cannon reiterated, “The traditional sense of monogamy, I don’t subscribe to.”
“I let [the women I have children with] know from the gate [about my views towards marriage]. It’s not out of disrespect, it’s more respect,” he explained. “It’s, ‘I’m going to come to you as honest as I possibly can. This is who I am, this is what I struggle with, this is where I feel like I excel. If we can coexist, you’re responsible for your happiness. If I can add to it, I’m here. If I don’t add to it, I shouldn’t be here.”
A lot of men these days are gold diggers, and no one talks about that. Their greatest victims are the successful, wealthy, and celebrity women who haven’t worked on their femininity.
Each one from Mary J Blige to others, thinks they’ve met their dream man, only to later be taken to the cleaners.
It looks like reality starlet Kenya Moore is up next.
A new court order shows that Kenya Moore is still married to her estranged ex,Marc Daly and the couple has reached a confidentiality agreement and they’re finally working towards a settlement in divorce court.
Radar reports that Marc claimed Kenya was dragging her feet on providing him with information on her finances and took months to turn over “basic documents.” She also allegedly failed to submit a proposed child support worksheet for their daughter, Brooklyn Daly.
Now a new court order reveals that the parties appeared for a hearing and Kenya admitted to not turning over all the documents citing “privacy concerns.” Now she’s agreed to produce the documents because a confidentiality agreement is in place. The development means the two can start having real negotiation talks and try to wrap things up, reports Radar.
Marc Daly Still Allegedly After Legal Fees, Moore Manor
The latest filing still makes mention of Daly’s demands for Kenya to pay his legal fees and to give him a stake in her home, Moore Manor.
Despite Kenya buying Moore Manor in 2015 before they wed in 2017, Marc’s attorney claims thatMarc “invested money” into the 7,200 square-foot home during the marriage.
“Husband seeks an equitable division of the parties’ marital residence,” wrote the restaurateur’s lawyer.
Kenya’s team countered by saying,
“Respondent is well aware that Petitioner owned and operated the property in question long before the marriage.”
Kenya Filed For Divorce After Marc Announced Their Separation
As previously reported Kenya officially filed for divorce from Marc Daly in May of 2021 after years of alleged reconciliations, rumors, and counseling. In the official divorce docs, Kenya called their marriage “irretrievably broken” with no hopes of reconciliation.”
Her filing came after Marc told MadameNoire, in January 2021, the week of Kenya’s 50th birthday, that he was the one who was ready to move forward with divorce. MN exclusively reported a statement from Marc announcing the decision to end his marriage with Kenya officially.
Now imagine the pain of not only breaking up, but being a woman who thought a man really loved you, and all he really wanted was to secure the bag FROM you, and not WITH you.
A man should never TAKE anything from a woman. Like isn’t making him a celebrity, enough? Even worse, he wants half of that woman’s house.
Chile. Therapy should be free for women.
Prayers for Kenya’s heart, finances and mental health. According to the internet her current net worth is $800,000. If Marc was a better man, that woman should be worth MILLIONS.
DO YOU THINK A MAN SHOULD TAKE ANYTHING FROM A WOMAN?
Veteran NBA star, Shaquille O’Neal has revealed why he paid his ex-wife Shaunie O’Neal $300K a year to not work.
According to Shaq, he didn’t want his ex-wife to work when they were together. If he can afford to let his woman stay in the house and be taken care of, why let her work for $100K a year?
He made the above revelation on The Big Podcast with Shaq via Fade Away World;
““You have to let a woman be a woman coz I’m a king because of how my mother worked. I only want her to do one thing, stay fine. I was the type, ‘you don’t need to work, whatever you need I’ll give it to you’ because I’m like the King of England mentally.“
“I know now, it is a mistake. I’m so big on my people. If I can protect you by keeping you in a house, stay in house. What you working for how much you make in a year? 100,000? Here’s 300,000.““
“I know now, it is a mistake. I’m so big on my people. If I can protect you by keeping you in a house, stay in house. What you working for how much you make in a year? 100,000? Here’s 300,000.“
There is more;
Shaquille O’Neal has always stated he’s very protective of the people he loves, doing whatever he can to help those who need him. This goes to the next level when it comes to the women in his life. The Los Angeles Lakers legend has always made sure to take care of them, no matter what.
Interesting. When I talk to most black men these days they really want a woman who makes a lot of money. They don’t see the benefit of paying a woman to not work. They’d rather her work, him be neglected, cheat and them complain she doesn’t have time to cater to him….or that she’s too masculine. Men think so much about money these days in terms of the woman bringing in money, that most of the single ones don’t even understand how the money divinely comes to them..
What I love about Shaunie is that she educated herself on business with the extra time she had getting paid not to work.
Anyway, Shaq cheated on Shaunie and the revenge costed his a pretty penny.
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Kim Kardashian‘s first husband, Damon Thomas, is one cool, smooth dude.
Recently he sat down with Vlad TV and reacted to Kim’s statement about being high on ecstasy during their Las Vegas nuptials. In a new interview with Vlad TV, the music producer talks about the claim the beauty mogul made during a 2018 episode of ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians,’ where she recalled their elopement in 2000.
Sharing his side. Kim Kardashian‘s first husband, Damon Thomas, wasn’t pleased after she claimed she was on ecstasy when they eloped in 2000.
“Yeah, I don’t remember that at all,” the music producer, 51, said during an interview with VladTV posted on Sunday, April 24, denying Kardashian’s version of events. “I think it’s unfair to make those kind of blanket statements because we have kids now, you know? I have children. My kid goes to the same school her kid goes to. So imagine him when he has to deal with that at school.”
During a 2018 episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, the Skims founder, 41, claimed, “I got married on ecstasy. … The first time.” She later added: “I did ecstasy once and I got married. I did it again, I made a sex tape. Like, everything bad would happen [when I was on drugs].”
In his interview, Thomas explained that he was upset that Kardashian wanted to blame their 3 year marriage on her alleged intoxication and impaired judgement. “Because it happened in the past, you can try to sweep it under the rug, but you don’t stay married to somebody or be with somebody for four to five years and it’s just based off you getting high off of ecstasy, you know what I mean?” he said. “That doesn’t make any sense at all.”
Thomas added: “I’ve been very responsible in not talking about what that marriage was or what it meant to me.”
Two years after meeting in 1998, Thomas and Kardashian tied the knot in Las Vegas. At the time, she was 19 years old. “I used to be so dependent on the guys I was in a relationship with,” the KKW Beauty founder told Harper’s Bazaar of her first wedding in February 2011. “I don’t know why, because I wasn’t raised that way. If I looked at myself at 19, I would shake myself and be like, ‘Wake up; you are way too smart for this.’”
She continued: “We went to Vegas, he said, ‘Let’s get married!’ and I said, ‘OK.’”
While Kardashian doesn’t appear to have the fondest memories of her marriage to Thomas, she does credit it with helping her learn what she wants from a relationship. “As I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned so much from relationships. My tolerance level is so different,” the Selfish author explained. “So after years of being in not the best relationships, you grow up.”
Kim really loves her some black men.
Welp. At least he made it past her 72-Day wedding to her next husband Kris Humphries.
