Dr Dre’s wife Nicole Young asks $2M a month in temporary spousal support as divorce battle ends 24-year marriage

Dr Dre’s estranged wife Nicole Young is demanding about two million dollar a month in temporary spousal support after filing for divorce in June. According to TMZ, Young has filed new documents in court on Thursday, September 3, and has asked for $1,936,399 on a monthly basis along with a heavy amount of $5 million in lawyer fees.

Lawyers for Young have alleged in court papers that the rapper, whose real name is Andre Romelle Young, has total control over their assets. The papers stated that on April 1, Dre threw Young out of their 43,000-square-foot Brentwood mansion “in the middle of the night” and “in a drunken rage.” He also expelled her from their Malibu home, told her he would sell and messaged her saying, “Do not spend one more cent… You can’t be mean and disrespectful and spend my hard-earned money. F–k that!”

But sources close to the couple said that though the 50-year-old filed for divorce, nothing has changed. Young is still living in their Malibu beach home and has freedom to use all their cars, personal chefs and other luxuries. Insiders have also stated that Dre is going to refuse the spousal support, arguing that she does not need such a huge amount every month since her lifestyle has not changed.

Young filed for divorce on June 29 citing irreconcilable differences after 24 years of marriage. They exchanged the vows in May 1996 and have two adult children together - 23-year-old son Truice, and daughter Truly, 19. He also has four children from earlier relationships. They are 37-year-old La Tanya Danielle Young, 38-year-old Curtis, 29-year-old Marcel, and Andre Young Jr., who died in 2008.

In response to her divorce filing, Dre, who has a net worth of around $800 million, filed a response claiming that the pair had a prenuptial agreement. However, earlier it was said that they did not have any. Young soon disputed his claims and the validity of the agreement. She filed documents in early August in which she claimed she was forced by the 55-year-old to sign a prenup in 1996, but insisted that Dre later "tore up" their prenup.

In a declaration attached to the filing, Young stated, “Before our wedding date, Andre demanded that I sign a premarital agreement that 16 of his lawyers had drafted. Andre, at the time, was a well-known producer and rapper in the music industry, but he had not reached anywhere near the pinnacle of his music, entertainment and business career that he achieved during our marriage. He told me that I must sign a premarital agreement or he would not marry me."

She continued that she was “extremely reluctant, resistant and afraid to sign the agreement and felt backed into a corner.” The former wife of NBA player Sedale Threatt added that since she was “left with no option", she “unwillingly" signed the agreement briefly before their 1996 wedding due to the "extraordinary pressure and intimidation by Andre."

But Young also mentioned that Dre "acknowledged to me that he felt ashamed he had pressured me into signing a premarital agreement and he tore up multiple copies of the agreement in front of me" two or three years after their marriage. "Since the day he tore up the agreements we both understood that there was no premarital agreement and that it was null and void," she noted in the declaration.