Akon’s wife Tomeka Thaim filed for divorce this week. Just a few days ahead of their 29th wedding anniversary, Thaim decided to make things official. September 15th would have been the big day. Now, People reports that there were “irreconcilable differences” at the core of this split.
Tham and Akon have one child, her name is Journey and she’s 17 years old. The filings indicated that both Thaim has asked for joint custody of their child. However, she woul have physical custody with the 52-year-old megastar getting visitation rights. There’s also some request for spousal support from Akon. However, Thaim has also made it known that she doesn’t want the “Soul Survivor” singer to have spousal support from her end.
Akon has multiple wives apparently!
You read that last sentence correctly. Akon’s been polygamous for a while, and has even given interviews about it. Zeze Mills spoke to the singer about his family life back in 2022. During that conversation, he told the host that he has nine children in total. It’s an interesting perspective and one that he was frank about it in this social media environment. Check out what he had to say right here.
“[Polygamy is] part of our culture. Absolutely,” Akon said back then. “For me, it looks normal, because it’s culture for us. We didn’t go outside of our African culture when we got to the Western world. See, the flaw that the Western world made is they created all these rules without putting nature into account.”
One of Akon’s alleged other wives talks about their lives
You might be wondering who some of these other wives are. Well in 2023, Afrobeats artist Amirror appeared on Rie With The Tea to talk about the relationship. She was in a space where the women knew about each other, but didn’t have to interact on a daily basis. So, there wasn’t really any animosity there, or at least any we’re going to know about from the outside! Check out some of her comments for yourself.
“We all have different households, we all have different lifestyles,” Amirror told the host. “We don’t have to see each other so we don’t have to be cool with each other… Akon is the type of man [where] it’s not manipulation, it’s just, if you f— with it [or] you don’t. This is our culture… Every woman wants to be the only one, and it’s okay.”
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