Beyoncé’s mom, Tina Knowles , has reached a settlement in her divorce with ex-husband, Richard Lawson. The settlement, reported by People on Friday August 16, comes 13 months after Knowles, 70, filed papers in July 2023 following eight years of marriage to the actor, 77. Knowles filed the legal paperwork on July 26, 2023, according to documents obtained by Us Weekly — just one day after the listed day of separation.
Knowles cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split. The papers added that the “irremediable breakdown of the marriage [made] it impossible for the parties to live together as husband and wife.” Knowles and Lawson wed in 2015 in Newport, California.
The twosome tied the knot onboard a 140-foot yacht in an intimate ceremony . Knowles’ daughters Beyoncé, 42, and Solange, 38, were in attendance. Beyoncé’s husband Jay-Z, 54, and their eldest daughter, Blue Ivy, 12, were also there to witness the big day.
Prior to their marriage and subsequent divorce, Knowles and Lawson were platonic friends for decades before things eventually turned romantic. Knowles gushed over her then-husband during an appearance on the Taron Hall Show in 2022. “I’ve known Richard for 40 years, and when we reconnected, it was just, I felt like, a gift from God,” she recalled.
“I really mean that because I prayed. After I went through a divorce, it was pretty devastating after 33 years, and I always planned on, if it was in God’s plan, to get married ag.