{"id":147223,"date":"2025-09-19T10:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147223\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:49:13","slug":"david-geffen-says-hes-down-to-pay-estranged-husband-just-wants-to-be-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147223\/","title":{"rendered":"David Geffen Says He’s Down to Pay Estranged Husband, Just Wants to Be Single"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Geffen to Estranged Husband
\n I’ll Pay You Money, I Just Want Divorce<\/p>\n

\n Published September 18, 2025 1:08 PM PDT
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\n Updated September 18, 2025 4:26 PM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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David Geffen<\/a> says he’s ready to move on from his marriage and be an unmarried man again … and he’s even prepared to cut some big checks to his estranged husband.<\/p>\n

In new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, the billionaire says he’s willing to pay his estranged husband, David Andrew Armstrong<\/a> (AKA Donovan Michaels), up to $50,000 a month in spousal support.<\/p>\n

The catch here … Geffen says the payments should only last for 12 months and be retroactive to their split … adding he should get credit for whatever he’s shelled out already.<\/p>\n

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Geffen claims he’s already shelled out $200,000 in cash to Armstrong since they separated back in February … and he says he paid almost $200K for the guy to go to rehab.<\/p>\n

What’s more, Geffen says he’s allowing Armstrong to live rent-free in a $15,000 a month apartment he owns in Manhattan’s Upper East Side … and he says the guy has $5 million in art, jewelry and watches Geffen bought.<\/p>\n

We broke the story … Geffen filed for divorce<\/a> in May, and there is no prenup.<\/p>\n

In the new docs, filed by Disso Queen Laura Wasser<\/a>, Geffen says he’s made every effort to resolve the spousal support war … but he says mediation didn’t work out and claims Armstrong tried to extort him with a smear campaign in the media.<\/p>\n

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Geffen also points out he was 80 and retired for more than a decade when he tied the knot with the much younger Armstrong, and he says they didn’t accumulate any community property during the 23-month marriage … in other words, he says, even though he might get some spousal support, Armstrong ain’t entitled to a split of his reported $8.7 BILLION fortune.<\/p>\n

In a separate filing, Geffen is asking the court to terminate the marriage and make him single in the eyes of the law … he says the marriage is “undoubtedly irremediably broken down” and he no longer desires to be married to Armstrong.<\/p>\n

Geffen says he wants to be unmarried ASAP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Geffen to Estranged Husband I’ll Pay You Money, I Just Want Divorce Published September 18, 2025 1:08…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-147223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}