Akon’s spouse has filed for divorce, simply days earlier than their twenty ninth wedding ceremony anniversary.
Akon’s spouse has filed for divorce
Tomeka Thaim submitted paperwork to finish her marriage to the 52-year-old musician on 11 September, citing irreconcilable variations, although she listed their date of separation as “TBD (to be decided”.
Based on paperwork obtained by Individuals journal, Tomeka requested joint authorized custody of their 17-year-old daughter Journey and utilized for bodily custody of {the teenager}, with the Lonely hitmaker to obtain visitation rights.
Tomeka is looking for spousal help however requested the court docket to not award any to Akon.
The Smack That hitmaker has beforehand mentioned he believes in polygamy and revealed in 2022 that he has 9 kids.
Talking on The Zeze Mills Present, he mentioned: “[Polygamy is] a part of our tradition. Completely.
“For me, it appears to be like regular, as a result of it’s tradition for us. We didn’t go exterior of our African tradition once we acquired to the Western world. See, the flaw that the Western world made is that they created all these guidelines with out placing nature into consideration.”
Akon insisted he was “there for” all of his youngsters” and views it as his job to boost kids “to be accountable, to be understanding”, and to “shield their mom”.
He added: “My job ain’t to be doing all that further stuff and these holidays and recitals. Whereas I’m taking good care of my accountability to verify the household has a roof over their head and meals, if I’ve the time to do this and present love, sure, I’ll try this.
“Communication permits me to be there on daily basis. That’s what my FaceTime telephone is for.”
Akon believes marriage and courting are each “actual relationships”.
Singer Amirror beforehand claimed she is certainly one of Akon’s 4 wives, and that all of them dwell in other places, ncluding Atlanta, Los Angeles and Africa.
She instructed Rie Wit the Tea in 2023: “All of us have totally different households, all of us have totally different existence.
“We don’t need to see one another so we don’t need to be cool with one another… Akon is the kind of man [where] it’s not manipulation, it’s simply, should you f*** with it [or] you don’t. That is our tradition… Each lady desires to be the one o and it’s okay.”
