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Looks like love has run its course for Akon and his now ex-wife Tomeka Thiam.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s because Thiam was the one who put an end to things as she filed for divorce, with the huge split taking place days before the couple\u2019s 29th wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n
The reasoning for the colossal breakup, Thiam cites in documents obtained by both People<\/a> and TMZ<\/a>, is irreconcilable differences.<\/p>\n The two tied the knot back on Sept. 15, 1996.<\/p>\n Of Akon\u2019s nine children, according to documents, the couple share one child \u2014 a 17-year-old daughter named Journey. Thiam is now seeking joint legal custody and sole physical custody. She\u2019s also seeking spousal support and is attempting to get the court to block the musician from receiving any from her.<\/p>\n Previously, the rapper has said he believes in polygamy.<\/p>\n As a guest on The Zeze Mills Show in 2022, he said \u201c[Polygamy is] part of our culture. Absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFor me, it looks normal, because it\u2019s culture for us. We didn\u2019t go outside of our African culture when we got to the Western world. See, the flaw that the Western world made is they created all these rules without putting nature into account.\u201d<\/p>\n Additionally, the \u201cSmack That\u201d crooner has been cryptic about how many wives he\u2019s had in the past.<\/p>\n In fact, some years ago, while sitting down with DJ Vlad<\/a>, the subject of how many wives and children Akon came up, where he only confirmed that he had nine children.<\/p>\n \u201cI have seven boys and two girls,\u201d the \u201cLonely\u201d star told Vlad before joking that he enjoys the public\u2019s curiosity about his love life. \u201cI\u2019mma let it stay a rumor. I like this. I like the fact that people are guessing now, I love it. I\u2019m not confirming nor denying. You go online, you may see nine, you might see seven, you might see four. I love it, though.\u201d<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.pennlive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Looks like love has run its course for Akon and his now ex-wife Tomeka Thiam. That\u2019s because Thiam was the one who put an end to things as she filed for divorce, with the huge split taking place days before the couple\u2019s 29th wedding anniversary. The reasoning for the colossal breakup, Thiam cites in documents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2092568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092568","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=2092568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092569,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092568\/revisions\/2092569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}