Akon’s Wife Files for Divorce After 29 Years of Marriage

Akon‘s woman Tomeka Thiam has filed for divorce, conscionable shy of the couple’s 29th wedding anniversary.

Thiam cites irreconcilable differences arsenic the crushed down the divorce, successful documents obtained by Billboard. (TMZ archetypal reported the news.)

Of Akon’s 9 children, according to the documents, the mates stock 1 insignificant kid — a 17-year-old girl named Journey — and Thiam is seeking associated ineligible custody and sole carnal custody of the teen. She’s besides seeking spousal enactment and is trying to get the tribunal to artifact Akon from receiving immoderate from her.

According to the filing, Akon (legal name: Aliaune Badara Thiam) and Tomeka Thiam person been joined since Sept. 15, 1996 — meaning the filing comes conscionable days up of their 29th wedding anniversary.

Billboard has reached retired to Akon’s squad for further commentAkon’s woman Tomeka Thiam has filed for divorce, conscionable shy of the couple’s 29th wedding anniversary.

A mates of years ago, while sitting down with DJ Vlad, the taxable of however galore wives and children Akon has was brought up, but the Senegalese creator lone confirmed that helium had 9 children.

“I person 7 boys and 2 girls,” helium told Vlad earlier joking that helium enjoys the public’s curiosity astir his emotion life. “I’mma fto it enactment a rumor. I similar this. I similar the information that radical are guessing now, I emotion it. I’m not confirming nor denying. You spell online, you whitethorn spot nine, you mightiness spot seven, you mightiness spot four. I emotion it, though.”

In different Akon news, he said earlier this year that he’s readying to remix his full catalog into state songs. “I’m really redoing my full catalog successful country,” Akon told TMZ. “I’m not adjacent joking… This has been an thought for years similar forever. The task has been successful question for the past 5 years. But starting adjacent month, y’all gonna commencement seeing each the releases.”

He added: “They’re state artists featuring me. They’re the ones performing them.”