Tory Lanez’s brief marriage is coming to an end after his wife of less than a year filed for divorce.
Although the news of their marriage broke in September of last year, it was on June 25, 2023 when Lanez and Raina Chassagne tied the knot, according to TMZso the couple will not even make it a full year of marriage.
Documents obtained by the publication indicate that Chassagne, who was seen crying outside the courthouse after Lanez was sentenced last year, filed for divorce last week and cited irreconcilable differences as her reason for ending the marriage.
She filed for divorce from Lanez while he is in prison serving a 10-year sentence for shooting Megan Thee Stallion in her feet.
Chassagne shares a seven-year-old son named Kai with Lanez (real name: Daystar Peterson), and in his filing requested sole legal and physical custody of the child, as Lanez will not be able to care for his son while he is still behind bars.
Tory Lanez’s brief marriage is coming to an end after his wife filed for divorce less than a year after getting married. His wife Raina Chassagne filed for divorce last week, TMZ reported.
The outlet noted that Chassagne did not appear to have legally adopted the imprisoned rapper’s last name at any point before filing for divorce.
Shortly after being sentenced, Lanez requested bail ahead of a planned appeal, but a judge denied his request, forcing him to begin serving his sentence behind bars.
The appeal was filed in February of this year but was delayed for several months after prosecutors twice requested, and were granted, delays.
They now have until the end of this month to respond to Lanez’s appeal.
Little is known about Lanez and Chassagne’s relationship, even when they met, but she publicly defended him last year when she addressed the judge during the first day of his sentencing hearing, which reportedly came after the two were married. , although that was not the case. publicly known at the time.
In her statement to the court, she described the rapper as ambitious and confident, and pleaded with the judge to break a cycle of incarcerating Black parents, leaving their children without mentors or loving figures.
Chassagne failed to get the judge to eliminate the prison sentence as punishment, but Lanez was ultimately sentenced to less time than prosecutors had requested.
Following his conviction, Lanez will be deported to Canada, where he was born.
After being born in Brampton, Ontario, the rapper’s family lived in Montreal, before moving south of the border, first to Miami and then to Atlanta.
Lanez was found guilty by a unanimous jury of three firearms charges: assault with a semi-automatic firearm, grossly negligent discharge of a firearm and carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle.
He had previously pleaded guilty to all three charges.
In emotional testimony during Lanez’s trial, Megan Thee Stallion admitted that she had had a sexual relationship with the defendant and recounted how they argued in the back of his SUV while in the Hollywood Hills.
Earlier in the day on July 12, 2020, they attended a pool party hosted at Kylie Jenner’s house and the two had been drinking before their subsequent argument.
Chassagne shares a seven-year-old son named Kai with Lanez (real name: Daystar Peterson), and in her filing requested sole legal and physical custody of the child, as Lanez will not be able to care for her son while he is behind bars.
TMZ reported that Lanez and Chassagne tied the knot on June 25, 2023, but the union wasn’t reported until September of last year; seen in 2018 in Los Angeles
Lanez was convicted of three felony firearm offenses and sentenced to 10 years in prison for repeatedly shooting Megan Thee Stallion and shooting her in the feet, which required surgery to correct; photographed in April
Megan (real name: Megan Pete) testified that she asked Tory’s driver to let her out of the car, at which point she said Lanez yelled ‘Dance, bitch!’ and she started shooting him with her gun.
He allegedly shot five times and hit the WAP rapper in the feet, which then required surgery to correct the damage.
Megan then claimed that Tory had offered her and her friend Kelsey Harris a million dollars to keep quiet about the shooting since he was already “on parole.”
Megan also claimed that Lanez apologized to her after the fact and attributed the shooting to him being drunk.