{"id":2464267,"date":"2026-06-17T18:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2464267"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:47:24","slug":"the-valleys-michelle-saniei-confirms-shes-dating-dr-dre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-valleys-michelle-saniei-confirms-shes-dating-dr-dre\/","title":{"rendered":"The Valley\u2019s Michelle Saniei Confirms She\u2019s Dating Dr. Dre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/tom-schwartz-and-michelle-saniei-spark-romance-rumors-in-valley-trailer\/\"><strong>Michelle Saniei<\/strong><\/a> confirmed she\u2019s seeing music legend <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/dr-dre\/\"><strong>Dr. Dre<\/strong><\/a> and shared a little insight on their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re spending time together,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/the-valley\/\"><em>The Valley<\/em><\/a> star, 37, said of her connection to the music mogul, 61, in an interview with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/the-valley-michelle-saniei-shares-rare-update-dr-dre-relationship-exclusive-11999154\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>People<\/em><\/a> on Tuesday, June 16. \u201cAnd we love being in each other\u2019s company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saniei added that she and Dre (real name Andre Romell Young) connected via a mutual friend. However, the couple are keeping things low-key.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor now, we\u2019re just keeping everything super private,\u201d she explained. \u201cI\u2019m just living my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Dre and Saniei were <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/dr-dre-and-the-valleys-michelle-saniei-seen-holding-hands\/\">spotted holding hands<\/a> during an April outing in Los Angeles. The pair wore matching black ensembles, with Dre rocking a dark tracksuit while Saniei opted for a turtleneck mini sweater dress, long leather coat and gold necklace.<\/p>\n<p>After Dre and Saniei\u2019s outing made headlines, the real estate agent\u2019s ex-husband, <strong>Jesse Lally<\/strong>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/jesse-lally-speaks-out-on-ex-michelle-saniei-with-dr-dre\/\">reacted to the pair\u2019s<\/a> rumored romance. (The exes were married from 2018 to 2025 and share daughter Isabella, 6.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichelle\u2019s divorced and she\u2019s single, and whatever makes her happy is cool,\u201d Lally, 45, told TMZ in April. \u201cI did not get a heads-up. I saw it on social media the same way as everybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lally added that Saniei and Dre were an unexpected pairing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Dr. Dre thing \u2014 didn\u2019t see that one coming!\u201d he said, adding that he never witnessed his ex listening to rap music. \u201cSo dating Dr. Dre, good for her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lally was not the only The Valley star to react to Saniei\u2019s new romance. Costar <strong>Janet Caperna<\/strong> thought the photos were manufactured at first glance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first photo I saw was, like, kind of blurry and grainy,\u201d Caperna, 40, exclusively told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/the-valleys-janet-reacts-to-michelle-photos-with-dr-dre\/\"><em>Us Weekly<\/em><\/a> that same month. \u201cAnd I was like, \u2018Is that Michelle?\u2019 I\u2019m, like, zooming in. And I was like, \u2018Or is it AI?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After confirming it was her costar, Caperna reached out to try to get the inside scoop.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOnce I saw it was her, I was like, \u2018All right, well, I have not talked to Michelle today, but I\u2019m going to be calling her,\u2019\u201d she continued, noting she saw the pictures while traveling. \u201cSo I have not connected with her and gotten the tea yet, but I\u2019m excited to know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Caperna also shared that people were coming to her to see if she knew anything about Dre and Saniei.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things I love about L.A. is, like, all of a sudden I\u2019m getting texts from my mom, my old boss, like, \u2018Is Michelle dating Dr. Dre?\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018What? What is this?\u2019\u201d she recalled. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018I gotta call Michelle.\u2019 And I gotta ask [her] myself.\u201d<\/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 www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Saniei confirmed she\u2019s seeing music legend Dr. Dre and shared a little insight on their relationship. \u201cWe\u2019re spending time together,\u201d The Valley star, 37, said of her connection to the music mogul, 61, in an interview with People on Tuesday, June 16. \u201cAnd we love being in each other\u2019s company.\u201d Saniei added that she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2354101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22367,24003,164683,108642,24122],"class_list":["post-2464267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-news","tag-love-lives","tag-music-stars","tag-reality-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-Valleys-Zack-Warns-Theres-More-Amanda-West-Drama.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464267","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=2464267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2464268,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464267\/revisions\/2464268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2354101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}