Lana Del Rey’s ‘jealousy’ has caused an explosive rift between her new husband Jeremy Dufrene and his former long-term fiancée, who has been banned from visiting their marital home to see their daughter.
The singer-songwriter, 39, married Louisiana-born Dufrene, 49, in front of a small gathering of family and friends Thursday at the swamp where they met five years ago during one of their famous swamp tours.
Now, insiders have exclusively revealed that Del Rey had been messaging the alligator guide for the past four years of her 13-year relationship with Kelli Welsh, 45, whose friendship with Dufrene broke down in the weeks since they began. to go out.
Welsh, who was blindsided by the news of their backyard nuptials, was also said to have been unaware that Del Rey and Dufrene had packed up the last of her belongings from the home they once shared, including her crystals, as they transported her “energy”.
“Jeremy and Lana started talking in 2019 but never stopped,” the source told DailyMail.com. ‘At one point, she messaged him on social media and told him she was taking a break for a while, but he could call her anytime.
Lana Del Rey’s ‘jealousy’ has caused an explosive breakup between her new husband Jeremy Dufrene and his ex-fiancee Kelli Welsh
Insiders have exclusively revealed that Del Rey, 39, had been messaging the Cayman guide, 49, for the past four years of her 13-year relationship with Welsh, 45.
‘This was while he was engaged to Kelli. Lana knew Jeremy was engaged. “He was very honest about it and had pictures of Kelli and the kids on his own social media.”
Welsh and Dufrene began dating as teenagers, when she was 16 and he was 19, but they broke up after a year.
He then married his first wife, Gina, with whom he has two sons and a daughter.
A year after her marriage ended, she rekindled with Welsh in 2011, having maintained contact over the years.
He proposed in 2012, but the teenage sweethearts never married and finally split last October. Dufrene also raised Welsh’s daughter, Alana, now 20, as her own. She still lives with him, while Welsh now resides in Texas.
Their relationship has also grown apart since he started dating Del Rey.
The source claimed Welsh briefly moved to Texas to care for a sick relative, but ended up staying after distance separated them.
But before they moved in, they went on a camping trip together where she told him she wanted to “get more out of the relationship.”
Welsh’s friendship with Dufrene has broken down in the weeks since he started dating Del Rey (pictured in 2018).
According to the source, Welsh had no idea he was engaged to Lana and only found out the two had gotten married the morning after their wedding.
“She wanted to start making real memories with him, but Jeremy just worked all the time, 24/7,” the source claimed. “He put work before anything, including her.”
Del Rey recently moved into the home she previously shared with Welsh, and the couple Since then, all of Welsh’s belongings have been put into storage and she has been banned from visiting him.
“Jeremy told Kelli that he wasn’t allowed to go to the house after he met up with Lana, which was very upsetting to her,” the source said.
‘Kelli’s biological daughter, Alanna, still lives there with Jeremy, whom she considers her father. But he never adopted her.
‘What’s confusing is that Jeremy’s ex-wife Gina was always at home with her new husband. They were a big blended family.
‘So Kelli not being allowed doesn’t make sense. Jeremy expressed that Lana was jealous of her because of their long history. So when she moved into the house, they took all of Kelli’s belongings and put them in storage.
‘Lana was especially interested in ridding the house of Kelli’s crystals. She told Jeremy that the crystals contain so much energy and that she needed them to disappear.
“She just wanted to start a new life with him and didn’t want any pieces of her past, especially with her ex of over a decade.”
“Jeremy told Kelli that she wasn’t allowed to go to the house after he hooked up with Lana, which was very upsetting for her,” the source told DailyMail.com.
The source continued: “Jeremy expressed that Lana was jealous of (the Welsh) because of their long history.”
Del Rey first met Dufrene on one of her tours in 2019 and continued to message him in the years since.
The Grammy nominee exchanged vows with Dufrene by the water in Des Allemandes, Louisiana, on Thursday, just a month after they were first photographed together.
Despite the tensions, the source insisted that the unlikely couple are very much in love and that the singer gets along well with his children, whom he recently took on a private jet to his property in Los Angeles.
The source said: ‘SShe took him and all the children, plus all the children’s significant others, on a private jet to her home in Los Angeles, where they stayed for a week.
‘He gave the children a spending allowance of $200 each. They obviously like it a lot.
They insisted Dufrene “didn’t marry her for her money,” but claimed Del Rey has been lavishing him with gifts, including three. $3000 suits.
The couple exchanged vows by the water in Des Allemandes, on the same marsh where he operates his popular marsh boat tours.
“He has never had anything so expensive,” they added.
‘Jeremy is getting used to living like a king, but there’s no way he’s quitting his job and letting someone else take care of him. Although it is curious to see everything decorated.
‘It would be so funny to see him at the Met Gala with her. Can you imagine it?
But even though Del Rey is worth $30 million, enough to buy them a luxurious A-list apartment, the newlyweds plan to live in their modest five-bedroom childhood home that he demolished and rebuilt from the ground up in 2020.
“For most people, the area Jeremy lives in is a city that leads nowhere,” the source said.
‘But Lana likes the fact that she can go out into the city and people don’t know who she is. They went to Walmart together and went out to eat a couple of times and no one has any idea that she’s famous and she likes this.
The Summertime Sadness singer went public with her relationship with Dufrene on August 25, when they were seen holding hands and having a romantic dinner together in London after she performed at the Reading Festival.
The couple then attended Karen Elson’s wedding earlier this month alongside Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.
On Monday, TMZ reported that the unlikely couple had obtained a marriage license.
The newlyweds met when she performed at Buku Music + Art Project in Louisiana in March 2019. She attended one of his tours and shared a photo of him kissing an alligator.
DailyMail.com previously revealed that the Grammy nominee didn’t immediately reveal who she was to Dufrene because she found it “refreshing” that the alligator enthusiast “had no idea” who she was.