Dreka Gates Files For Divorce After Kevin Gates 52-Day Marriage To Brittany Renner

Kevin Gates' marriage to Dreka Gates is over for good. It was also revealed that the couple's business relationship had been severed, with Dreka filing for divorce from Boosie on July 30 for irreconcilable differences. This legal maneuver follows Brittany Renner's claim that she engaged in a short-lived marriage to the father of her daughter, Bonnie Bella Banks.

Nine years of marriage and two babies later, Dreka is prepared to leave. Court documents indicate that she is seeking joint legal and physical custody of their two children, as well as spousal support. But it's the sequence of events that has social media chattering. The date of separation was July 10. That's almost a month after Basketball Wives star Brittany Renner excitedly shared that she and Kevin Gates were very briefly married earlier this year. During a frank radio interview on June 7, Renner explained: "We got married April 6 and divorced May 28."

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The 90-day waiting period prescribed in Islamic tradition, she continued, intended to allow time for reflection and the possibility of reconciliation, and is also designed so men can find out if a woman might be pregnant. "If you're pregnant, then he would be responsible," Renner said of the spiritual and legal obligations inherent in the faith. "During those 90 days, you are not to entertain anybody romantically," she added, the commitment at stake seeming no laughing matter. It remains to be seen whether Dreka was taken off guard by the 52-day marriage or saw it coming.

The chronology by which Renner made this fact known hastened a relationship breakdown that was already on the verge of collapse. Dreka and Kevin had long been considered hip-hop's spiritual and entrepreneurial power couple, life partners with stakes in business and branding. However, cracks in the foundation became harder to ignore more recently. Now, Dreka's filing is the end of an era. With custody and financial negotiations presumed to be looming, the formerly solid Gates family is embarking on a new, far more public chapter. As fans digest the news, this is no mere celebrity split. It's a breakup playing out in real time, under the glare of headlines and interviews, each new detail more shocking than the last.