Usher Files for Divorce from Tameka Foster
Usher Raymond IV filed for divorce in Atlanta’s Fulton County Superior Court on Friday, June 12, 2009. Tameka Raymond Foster is the mother of Raymond’s two young sons, 1 1/2-year-old Usher Raymond V and 6-month-old Naviyd Ely Raymond. She has three children from two previous relationships, including a marriage to Ryan Glover. This will mark the second failed marriage for the celebrity stylist. Foster and Glover’s divorce was finalized March 2007, less than six months later, a pregnant Foster married Raymond.
Raymond went on a tirade on MTV’s “TRL” and defended Foster last May, calling gossip about his personal life “trash.” According to MTVnews.com, he said:
“I love my wife very, very much,” he said. “There was a little rumor earlier this week about us separating. It ain’t true. We in love. Get outta there,” he said, raising his left hand and showing off his wedding band. “Matter of fact, I’m tired of people continuing to talk so much trash about me, know what I’m saying? And my relationship.
“My wife is not 40 years old. I love her to death and I’m a black, strong man in America standing up for my people — as a man to my wife, to my son, to my family,” he continued, removing his sunglasses and talking directly into the camera. “I’m making a stand that a lot of us should make. I coulda been like any other man who has a child and live with that woman and continue to just play the game. … I’m trying to do it the right way. This is the way your supposed to do it! Pay attention, fellas.”
“And my wife had nothing to do with me firing my mother — nothing like that, that’s trash,” he said, referring to his mother, Jonetta Patton, ceasing to be his manager last year. “I hear y’all talking crazy out there; she’s a beautiful black woman. Stop. Stop talking. And I love her. Stop it.”
The first hearing in the case is set for mid-July before Judge Bensonetta Tipton Lane. –malibu jones
