Dr Dre’s estranged wife Nicole Young 'embezzled' $385K from rapper and his business partner sparking LAPD probe
It’s a new drama in Dr Dre and his estranged wife Nicole Young’s divorce saga as new reports have claimed that the 50-year-old has taken $385,000 from the rapper and his business partner’s account without their permission. According to TMZ, Dre’s partner in business Larry Chatman recently filed a police report claiming Young embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from their business account without their knowledge. The report filed with LAPD by the Dre’s team also stated that they believe Nicole $385,029 in their divorce case.
But Nicole has claimed that she has right over the money since her name is on the corporate account. When earlier she was called out by Record One - a company she and Dre founded together - for "blatant and unjustifiable criminal embezzlement of corporate funds” and was also accused of a breach of her fiduciary duties, her lawyer, Bryan Freedman, told TMZ: “This is just a low-grade PR stunt by Andre and his team to try to change the fact that he was caught red-handed and sued for trying to cheat Nicole out of community property to which she is entitled. There is no question that Nicole had both the contractual and the legal right to have taken this action and Andre's team is well aware of this fact. Any suggestion she did something untoward is preposterous and pathetic." However, reports have stated that if charges will be brought against Nicole, she could have to spend time behind bars.
In June, Nicole filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for her separation from Dre, whose real name is Andre Romelle Young. The two exchanged vows in 1996 and share two adult children together - 23-year-old son Truice, and daughter Truly, 19. Earlier, Nicole was married to former-NBA player Sedale Threatt. Dre also has four kids from his past relationships, they are La Tanya Danielle Young, 37, 38-year-old Curtis, 29-year-old Marcel, and Andre Young Jr., who died in 2008.
A report in September stated that Nicole was asking for about two million dollars a month in temporary spousal support after filing for divorce months ago. On September 3, she filed new documents in court and demanded $1,936,399 on a monthly basis along with a heavy amount of $5 million in lawyer fees. Her lawyers have alleged that Nicole has no control over finances and all are managed by Dre. The papers filed in the court also claimed that she was thrown out of their 43,000-square-foot Brentwood mansion “in the middle of the night” by the ‘F**k Tha Police’ singer “in a drunken rage.”
It has also been said that Dre took away rights from her of their Malibu home, told her he would sell, and texted 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 some insiders claimed that Nicole faced no issues after filing for divorce and she still lives in their Malibu beach home and has access to all their cars, personal chefs, and other luxuries.