Gary Owen, an American comedian, says that he is estranged from family members. On The Breakfast Club’s podcast on August 23, the 48-year-old singer revealed that he hasn’t spoken to his children for a year due to his divorce from the Duke of Kenya.
The comedian went on to say:
“I’ve done everything. I’ve been coming to Greensborough since my daughter attended A&T, I knocked on the door but she didn’t answer. I tried to meet her at the airport. I was banned from using social media. I tried every channel available to contact my daughter. When I contacted her, it was blocked.”
Owen also said his children learned of his divorce through news sources and social media, not from their parents:
“We didn’t tell the kids. We were going to wait and do it together but they found out through TMZ.”
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Owen decided to break his silence about the incident a year later so his children could hear his side of the story. In the podcast, he said:
“People kept asking me to explain my side of the story. And honestly, getting my kids to hear that was a huge effort.”
Gary Owen’s wife filed for divorce in 2011.
Gary Owen and Kenya Duke were married in 2003. Emilio, Kennedy and Austin are their three children. Emilio, their oldest child, is the biological son of Duke and Emilio Toliver Senior. Owen and Duke’s biological children are Kennedy and Austin, aged 21 and 20, respectively. Duke filed for divorce in Los Angeles County Superior Court in California in March 2021, after 18 years of marriage due to irreconcilable differences.
People magazine reported in June of that year that Duke was asking Owen to support the couple $44,000 a month after she left her “promising career in account management” to follow the comedian.
Duke further asserted at the time, saying:
“I’m asking Gary to be ordered to continue making $44,000 monthly installments as that’s been our status for almost four (4) years,” as well as a one-time payment of $88,000 over the past two months that he hasn’t given me.
On the other hand, the podcaster and entrepreneur does not stop talking about his marriage on social networks. Duke accused Gary Owen of having an affair during their marriage and hiding money from his family in a now-deleted Instagram post. According to Hot New Whip Whop, the Duke of Kenya tagged the comedian in a lengthy post asking him to “stop lying about paying the mortgage,” which she allegedly paid.
She went on to say:
“The encroachers you are talking about do not live here. We only have one problem: a liar narcissist no longer lives here. I am here doing my job. We won’t bother you for no reason. You are going too far. “At 48, you’re the father that you so savagely criticize on stage, for how badly he treated you when he was in his twenties.”
Gary Owen, who appeared on The Wendy Williams Show in June 2021, has also broken his silence on the Kenyan allegations. He added that his lawyer has asked him not to speak at the moment, but there appears to be a “big turning point” in his divorce from Duke.
“It’s silly, but I can’t say anything about it now – but it’s huge.” It changed the whole landscape of the divorce.”
Gary Owen also refuted media claims that he has not met his children, pointing out that they are all grown up and that “it’s unusual for you to have older children without seeing them for several months”. He explained the situation by saying:
“When I heard the news, my daughter was in college.” She stayed in Kenya and worked. I’m on the way. We exchange letters and chat.”
Gary Owen also said he is not a “deadlocked parent”, as the Duke of Kenya called him after accusing him of adultery.
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