{"id":1984155,"date":"2025-08-28T06:42:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1984155"},"modified":"2025-08-28T06:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:42:23","slug":"dubai-princess-engaged-to-rapper-french-montana-year-after-announcing-shocking-divorce-on-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dubai-princess-engaged-to-rapper-french-montana-year-after-announcing-shocking-divorce-on-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai princess engaged to rapper French Montana \u2014 year after announcing shocking divorce on Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F08%2Fhttps-t-hhshmahra-110196448.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Welcome to the party.<\/p>\n<p>The daughter of Dubai\u2019s ruler is engaged to rapper French Montana \u2014 one year after she abruptly announced her divorce from her first husband and accused him of being \u201coccupied with other companions.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Moroccan-American rapper proposed to Sheikha Mahra bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 31, during Paris Fashion Week in June, his rep confirmed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/08\/27\/french-montana-engaged-dubai-princess-sheikha-mahra\/\">to TMZ<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>French Montana is engaged to Sheikha Mahra bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. <span class=\"credit\">Sheik Mahra\/Telegram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Montana, whose real name is Karim Kharbouch, popped the question after he walked the runway as a featured model for the \u201c3.Paradis Ready to Wear Spring\/Summer 2026\u201d show in the French capital.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the hip-hop star\u2019s rep did not share details of the proposal and no wedding date has been yet as of yet.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Post has reached out Montana\u2019s reps for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Mahra is the daughter of Dubai ruler and United Arab Emirates Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time Grammy nominee was first spotted with the royal in the fall of 2024, shortly after she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/18\/world-news\/dubai-princess-announces-shocking-divorce-occupied-with-other-companions\/\">shockingly called off her marriage<\/a> to Sheikh Mana bin Mohammed bin Rashid bin Mana Al Maktoum.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The couple was first linked in the fall of 2024. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/hhshmahra<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a scathing Instagram post, the princess decided to leave her husband \u2014 claiming he prioritized other \u201ccompanions\u201d during their marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you are occupied with other companions, I hereby declare our divorce you,\u201d she wrote in an Instagram post on July 17, 2024. \u201cI divorce you, I divorce you, and I Divorce You. Take care. Your ex-wife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The breakup post was intentionally crafted to mock an Islamic tradition called \u201ctriple repudiation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A triple repudiation is a controversial tactic used by Muslim traditionalists that allows a man to instantly divorce his wife by declaring it three times, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brandeis.edu\/projects\/fse\/muslim\/triple-repudiation.html#:~:text=Triple%20repudiation%2C%20talaq%20thalatha%2C%20occurs,expire%20without%20taking%20her%20back\">Brandeis University<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The exes got married in a lavish ceremony in April 2023 and welcomed a daughter in May 2024 before Mahra announced their divorce two months later.<\/p>\n<p>Three months after going their separate ways, the princess \u2014 whose family is worth an estimated $18 million \u2014 was spotted in Dubai with Montana, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/brides\/726803\/dubai-princess-confuses-fans-with-photos-alongside-famous-date-after-shock-divorce\/\">Hello Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The rapper allegedly proposed after he walked the runway in Paris Fashion Week. <span class=\"credit\">Sheik Mahra\/Telegram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>This will be the second marriage for both Montana and Mahra. <span class=\"credit\">Sheik Mahra\/Telegram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The pair has since been seen eating dinner, having a date around camels and traveling to mosques, per TMZ.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the second marriage for both the \u201cNo Stylist\u201d rapper and the princess.<\/p>\n<p>Montana, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2018\/06\/14\/french-montana-becomes-a-us-citizen\/\">who became a US citizen in June 2018<\/a>, shares a son with his first wife, Deen Kharbouch.<\/p>\n<p>They split in 2012 after five years of marriage and their divorce was finalized in 2014,<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/article\/khloe-kardashian-dating-history-boyfriends-ex-husband\/\"> the same year he famously dated Khlo\u00e9 Kardashian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the party. The daughter of Dubai\u2019s ruler is engaged to rapper French Montana \u2014 one year after she abruptly announced her divorce from her first husband and accused him of being \u201coccupied with other companions.\u201d The Moroccan-American rapper proposed to Sheikha Mahra bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 31, during Paris Fashion Week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1984156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[21751,24188,35566,48686,22823,21787,347618,21741,352826,346639,29023,22769,351948],"class_list":["post-1984155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-couples","tag-celebrity-dating","tag-celebrity-engagements","tag-celebrity-relationships","tag-celebrity-social-media","tag-dubai","tag-entertainment","tag-french-montana","tag-paris-fashion-week","tag-rappers","tag-royal-family","tag-united-arab-emirates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dubai-princess-engaged-to-rapper-French-Montana-\u2014-year-after.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}