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DeVon Franklin Files For Divorce From Meagan Good After 9 Years
Woman Gets 10 Years For
DeVon Franklin and Mea- gan Good are officially calling it quits.
According to reports, the couple announced Tuesday (December 21) they are filing for divorce after nine years of marriage. The couple met in 2011 while working on the film Jumping the Broom. They got engaged in May 2012 before marrying in June the same year.
The couple confirmed their split to PEOPLE in a joint state- ment.
"After much prayer and con- sideration, we have decided to go into our futures separately but forever connected," Good and Franklin said in the state- ment.
"We celebrate almost a decade of of marriage together and a love that is eternal.
Her Sleeping Boyfriend
DEVON FRANKLIN AND MEAGAN GOOD
CHICAGO- A 23-year-old Roselle woman has been sen- tenced to 10 years in prison for pouring boiling water on her sleeping boyfriend in early 2020.
DuPage County prosecutors said Alexis Sykes poured boil- ing water on her boyfriend Jan. 2 as he slept on the couch.
Then Sykes allegedly recorded herself on video and posted it on Snapchat with the caption, “I kinda feel bad now because he got 2&3rd degree burns from face to waist & they rushin him to burn center but oh well (he) still cried & beg me to drive him to hospital.”
The state’s attorney’s office said Sykes hid the car keys and the boyfriend finally had to drive himself to the hospital and underwent skin graft sur- gery. She fled to Mississippi, where she was later taken into custody.
Sykes, who pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated battery
ALEXIS SYKES
by caustic substance, will be re- quired to serve at least 85% of her 10-year sentence.
“Considering her complete disregard for the amount of pain and suffering she caused her victim, one can only come to the conclusion that she has most certainly earned every year of her ten-year sentence,” DuPage County State’s Attor- ney Robert Berlin said in a news release.
There's no one at fault, we be- lieve this is the next best chap- ter in the evolution of our love," they added.
"We are incredibly grateful for the life-changing years we've spent together as hus- band and wife. We are also ex- tremely thankful to God for the
testimony being created inside us both and for blessing our lives together," the statement reads.
Six months before their an- nouncement, the couple posted anniversary tributes to one an- other to celebrate their ninth year of marriage together.
Pouring Boiling Water On
Jay-Z Shoots Down Verzuz
Comp: 'Can’t Nobody Stand On
That Stage With Me'
Jay-Z has finally made a de- finitive statement on the prospects of him jumping on the Verzuz stage, the wildly popular platform that has cap- tivated live and virtual audi- ences.
“Can’t nobody stand on that stage with me. I’m just telling y’all the real,” Jay said for thousands of listeners to hear. “You gotta stand in front of the “Grammy Family” verse per- formed live? I never even per- formed that live. Let’s move on from Verzuz.”
The mogul said that there is nobody on the planet that he can stand in front of and it be competitive.
The statement was made in a
JAY-Z
Twitter Spaces talkback with singer Alicia Keys in promo- tion of her new album Keys.
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