Selling Sunset star Chelsea Lazkani is ready for a new start after being declared legally single.
A judge recently approved the termination of the marriage, TMZ reported on Tuesday.
The 31-year-old reality star was in the middle of a divorce from her husband Jeff Lazkani.
Chelsea, whose divorce has played out publicly on her Netflix reality series, had previously agreed with Jeff in her desire to be declared legally single, according to court documents obtained by the publication.
Although the two are now legally single and therefore free to remarry if they wish, they are apparently still negotiating a divorce settlement to bring closure to the matter.
They reportedly filed papers asking the judge overseeing their divorce to declare them single on Monday, and the judge’s decision came after a hearing on Tuesday.
Selling Sunset star Chelsea Lazkani is ready for a new start after a judge declared her legally single, TMZ reported Tuesday; seen on September 5 in New York
The 31-year-old reality star had been in the middle of a divorce from her husband Jeff Lazkani, who asked the judge to bifurcate their divorce proceedings in October; seen in 2022 in Santa Monica
The exes still have the potentially difficult task of dividing their assets before the divorce can be finalized.
TMZ previously reported that it was Jeff who first asked the judge to bifurcate the divorce proceedings and declare the former couple single in October, and Chelsea seems to have been on the same page ever since.
Although Chelsea was the first of the two to file for divorce, the process was slowed down as they struggled to reach a quick settlement.
In his previous filing, Jeff allegedly told the judge that he and his ex would still resolve issues of custody and support of their children, as well as the division of assets, once they were both declared single.
Chelsea had previously requested joint physical and legal custody when she filed for divorce.
The real estate expert and her ex-husband, who is managing partner of the advertising agency Icon Media Group, founded by her mother, share two children: son Maddox Ali Lavon, five, and daughter Melia Iman, four.
The Selling Sunset star previously filed for divorce from her ex-husband in March of this year, citing irreconcilable differences.
A week after their filing, Jeff shared his own filing, which also cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split, though he accused Chelsea of being “physically aggressive” in his docs.
The real estate expert and her ex-husband share two children: son Maddox Ali Lavon, five, and daughter Melia Iman, four.
Chelsea and Jeff hit it off on Tinder in 2015, shortly after she moved to Los Angeles, and married in 2017; photographed with Maddox in 2022 in Los Angeles
He accused her of punching him in the face shortly before her performance, which allegedly broke his glasses and caused a small cut.
He also accused her of installing a lock on the master bedroom of his $2.9 million, five-bedroom Manhattan Beach home, of which he said he is the primary owner, and of remotely monitoring his visits to the house. home.
Jeff claimed in his filing that his reality star wife had been “exhibiting suspicious behavior” and claimed that some of her personal belongings had gone missing from the house.
Because of their conflict over the marital home, Jeff had requested that the judge overseeing their divorce prevent either of them from living full-time in the home.
Instead, he requested that Chelsea only be allowed into the house for two hours at a time while under supervision.
The two had been married since 2017, when they tied the knot at the Resort at Pelican Hill in Newport Beach, California.
In 2022, Chelsea revealed to DailyMail.com that her future husband was her first Tinder date after moving to Los Angeles.
The real estate agent, who was born in north London to Nigerian immigrant parents, said she had only planned to live in California long enough to earn her MBA, so she was hesitant to enter the dating market.
Jeff and Chelsea met on the dating app Tinder in 2015 and married in 2017. She filed for divorce in March, citing irreconcilable differences; photographed in January 2023 in Los Angeles
The origins of Chelsea and Jeff’s split are explored in the final season of Selling Sunset, in which his colleagues accuse him of having an affair
But after trying the dating app around 2015, she and Jeff instantly clicked.
‘We spoke about 15 times before meeting. “I don’t want to waste my time and give my energy to someone if I don’t think it’s going to be worth it,” she explained. “I felt like I knew him before we even met and the connection was immediate.”
The origins of Chelsea and Jeff’s split are explored in the final season of Selling Sunset, in which his colleagues accuse him of having an affair.
Some Selling Sunset fans expressed disappointment with the particularly dramatic turn the eighth season has taken, as it focuses more on the personal conflicts between members of the Oppenheim Group than on their real estate business.
Chelsea and her co-workers may also be in trouble, as Netflix has expressed a desire to focus on crowd-pleasing reality competition shows in the mold of major streaming series like The Voice, rather than the reality-TV type. cable networks driven by conflicts that Sell Sunset represents.