{"id":882950,"date":"2026-09-07T06:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882950\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T06:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:34:12","slug":"lululemon-founder-divorce-dennis-chip-wilson-and-wife-shannon-wilson-part-ways-after-20-years-with-no-prenup-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882950\/","title":{"rendered":"Lululemon founder divorce: Dennis \u2018Chip\u2019 Wilson and wife Shannon Wilson part ways after 20 years, with no prenup: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The billionaire founder of popular women\u2019s athleisure brand Lululemon<\/a> has called it quits on his 20-year marriage<\/a> \u2013 reportedly with no prenuptial agreement in place.<\/p>\n

Dennis \u201cChip\u201d Wilson, 71, whose net worth is valued at over $8 billion, is divorcing wife and former business collaborator Shannon Wilson, 52, with two sources now sharing insight into sealed court documents.<\/p>\n

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Lululemon founder Chip Wilson and wife of 20 years Shannon have reportedly called it quits with no prenup in place.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The family litigation between the Canadian couple is ongoing, but the documents in question were first filed in April.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg reported<\/a> sources familiar with the couple confirmed they had never signed a prenup before marrying.<\/p>\n

The pair tied the knot in 2002, with Chip previously crediting Shannon for her role in growing Lululemon Athletica into the approximately $15.5 billion behemoth that it is today. <\/p>\n

She was one of the company\u2019s first hires in its fledgling stage, serving as its founding lead designer before leaving the company over a decade ago \u2013 around the same time as her husband.<\/p>\n

Chip stepped down as chairman of the board in 2013, following a series of controversial statements regarding inclusive sizing. <\/p>\n

Despite this, he remains one of the company\u2019s biggest shareholders.<\/p>\n

In a 2013 Bloomberg TV interview<\/a>, the founder infamously blamed plus-sized customers for driving the widespread recall of a specific pant design, which appeared sheer when stretched.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuite frankly, some women\u2019s bodies just actually don\u2019t work for [the pants],\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n

\"Louise<\/p>\n

The couple were long-time collaborators at the activewear brand.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

While the Vancouver businessman owns 8.6 per cent of the brand\u2019s shares \u2013 worth a total of almost one billion \u2013 Shannon, who went on to found the luxury retail brand Kit and Ace, owns a one per cent stake in the clothing chain worth around $100 million.<\/p>\n

Despite no longer working at Lululemon, Chip has been previously voiced his disapproval over the brand\u2019s direction following his departure.<\/p>\n

In a 2024 interview with Forbes<\/a>, he criticised the brand\u2019s move towards inclusivity, claiming it was attempting to be \u201ceverything to everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the definition of a brand is that you\u2019re not everything to everybody. You\u2019ve got to be clear that you don\u2019t want certain customers coming in,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He went as far as to label the brand \u201cbland,\u201d slamming the \u201cwhole diversity and inclusion thing\u201d it promoted in the years after he left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The billionaire founder of popular women\u2019s athleisure brand Lululemon has called it quits on his 20-year marriage \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-882950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}