The long-running, increasingly messy divorce between Tyrese Gibson and his ex, Samantha Lee, has reached another level of pettiness, and it’s hit the actor/singer’s beloved Atlanta mansion.
According to In Touch Weekly, on Sept. 17, Lee’s attorney Adam Gleklen and The Gleklen Law Firm filed the lien on the “Fast and Furious” actor’s seven-bedroom, 11-bathroom Atlanta mansion. It is for $217,231, plus interest, to cover Samantha’s legal fees, which the “Sweet Lady” singer was previously ordered to pay.
Tyrese and Samantha were married in 2017, then separated in 2020. They share six-year-old daughter, Soraya.
As you’d expect, social media had plenty to say about the latest saga in this neverending story.
One person acknowledged the actor/singer’s pain, writing on X, “I bet he wished he never met her.”
Someone else referenced two of his most famous projects, posting, “Damn ‘Baby Boy’, seems like she wasn’t a ‘sweet Lady.’”
As previously reported by The Root, this is the latest chapter in their very public divorce. Back in September, about a week before the lien was filed, Tyrese was held in contempt of court and arrested in Fulton County, Georgia for unpaid child support. He is supposed to pay Samantha $10,000 a month for their daughter’s care.
The exes have traded barbs on social media, with the “Shame” singer often expressing himself in emotionally charged videos. At one point, he teased the idea that he would vent his feelings on a new album titled “Beautiful Pain,” but later revealed that was just a ploy to mess with Lee.
“I ain’t releasing no album called ‘Beautiful Pain’ because I just felt like f***ing with my ex and singing all these songs about how I feel and how I’m feeling about what I lived and experienced cuz she left me out the blue,” he said on IG Live in August.
Samantha answered back, telling her followers to move on from the past, explaining, “The more time that you decide to give somebody that you are not with, your intention, the longer you stay attached to a situation you’re trying to leave.”
Now that news of the lien is out there and people are talking about it, you know it’s only a matter of time before Tyrese drops another emotional video about his ex-wife and their issues. For the sake of their daughter, who is getting old enough to understand some of this, they really need to find a way to coexist and keep their business off of Instagram.