14 DAY TRIAL // Sherri Shepherd’s fairytale marriage is about to end in a nasty divorce, as her husband of nearly 3 years, Lamar Sally, has just filed legal papers for separation. He will be filing for divorce in 3 months’ time, not being able to do so right now on a technicality.
The papers were filed on May 2, with TMZ saying that Sally would have probably filed for divorce if he had lived in California for more than 3 months: there is a 6-month residency requirement, which means he will probably file the divorce papers in 3 months.
The View co-host is yet to respond to the petition or, for that matter, address the filing publicly. However, she will have to very soon, because all signs point out to this not being an amicable parting.
The two were married in a fairytale-like ceremony at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago 2011 and, when Sally filed the papers, they were getting ready to become parents via surrogate. The same media outlet notes that the baby will be born sometime in July.
And here’s where the split is getting nasty: in the papers, Sally is asking for full custody of the unborn child, with rights to grant visitation to Sherri. He also wants spousal support.
“He wants the prenup invalidated based on FRAUD,” TMZ says. “It sounds very nasty. Lamar wants an order preventing Sherri from interfering with his ability to take the kid with him after the birth.”
If he can get the prenup invalidated, this means that he’s entitled to a cut of the money she made during their 3-year marriage. However, to obtain an annulment he will obviously have to prove first that fraud was involved. No word yet on what kind of proof he might dispose of in this regard.
Another celebrity couple that went through a similar divorce, where he asked for the prenup to be invalidated on fraud, was Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries. They had been married for just 72 days when he found out that she’d filed the divorce papers, allegedly in the press because she didn’t bother to call him to inform him.
He said he’d been “tricked” into signing the prenup and marrying Kim because she had intended from the start not to stay married, having tied the knot only to get a boost in ratings with her E! wedding special.
While this is a belief still held by many today, it did not convince the judge handling the case. Humphries got nothing from Kim because he ruled ruled that the prenup was valid.