David Geffen’s Estranged Husband Files Explosive Lawsuit Against The Billionaire

David Geffen‘s already contentious divorce along with his estranged husband, Donovan Michaels, has now taken a dramatic flip with Armstrong submitting a lawsuit alleging breach of contract and accusing Geffen of “exploitation.”

Michaels claims that the billionaire leisure mogul handled him as a “residing social experiment” and plied him with medication for him to make use of.

It comes after David Geffen filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable variations between him and Donovan Michaels, following their two-year marriage.

David Geffen’s estranged husband, Michaels (AKA David Andrew Armstrong), has filed a lawsuit claiming that the leisure mogul was “masquerading as a white knight whereas hiding behind wealth, philanthropy and fame.”

Based on court documents filed on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court docket, Michaels asserts that Geffen handled him like “a residing social experiment — a trophy to point out off to his rich buddies, beneath the guise of benevolence.”

He claimed that his nine-year relationship with the 82-year-old billionaire, which included a two-year marriage, mirrored the plotline of “Buying and selling Locations,” with a “younger weak black man, orphaned as a toddler” drawn into the net of “an exploiter.”

The mannequin additional famous that they first met on the web site Seekingarrangements.com, a web site “the place males like Geffen store for the weak,” after which Geffen paid him $10,000 for intercourse on the primary evening in 2016.

Michaels added that Geffen drew him into an internet of alleged exploitation, then dumped him “simply as simply as he had acquired him.”

Elsewhere within the explosive lawsuit, the 32-year-old mannequin famous that Geffen solely noticed him as an object to use and seemingly weaponized his trauma for his “private gratification and public picture.”

He says their relationship  was a “sick recreation” the place he turned a “prop in Geffen’s theater of advantage, paraded round as proof of Geffen’s supposed altruism, whereas privately used as a sexual commodity.”

Whereas the connection reportedly advanced, with Geffen promising to deal with Michaels as a life companion and share all earnings and belongings collectively, Michaels now claims the promise was a entice, one which he gave up his modeling profession to pursue.

Within the complaints, Michaels additionally alleged that Geffen plied him with “a wide range of illicit medication,” together with cocaine and hashish and that he was anticipated to make use of them with the billionaire and his buddies, however “Michaels’ traumatic previous was an emotional ticking time.”

It comes after Geffen, co-founder of DreamWorks and varied file labels, filed for divorce from Michaels in Might, citing “irreconcilable variations.”

Based on TMZ, the couple didn’t have a prenuptial settlement once they obtained married in 2023, and that has now led to hypothesis in regards to the monetary implications for Geffen, whose internet value is estimated at $8.7 billion.

“This strengthened Michaels’ perception that the connection was real and enduring,” Michaels’ criticism mentioned of their lack of a prenup. “What Michaels didn’t know on the time was that this was nothing greater than a transaction to Geffen.”

He mentioned that he gave his physique, love, labor, and youth to Geffen for years however “couldn’t take the abuse from Geffen, nor sustain with Geffen’s proclivities, and suffered from dependancy.”

Michaels claims that when issues obtained tough between them as he now not match the “rigorously curated narrative Geffen had crafted for his social world,” the Hollywood government reduce him off.

He additional famous that Geffen demanded a divorce, and “breached his years-long guarantees and agreements.”