General News | 23 December 2009 16:23 CET

How Money, Infidelity Destroy Marriages In Nollywood

Source: www.nollywoodgists.com

It is no longer news that most marriages involving Top Nollywood actresses have hit the rocks for one reason or the other. While a lot have been speculated on why these marriages fail, a recent investigation has revealed that top on the list are money and infidelity as well as quest for sexual satisfaction and the search to maintain the high profile bestowed on them by stardom which has led many of them into marriages of convinence and most times, they jump out of the relationship as soon as they go in.

Some of the victims of the broken marriages include:

MONALISA CHINDA

Hers is the latest marriage break up in Nollywood. It was alleged that the reason for the break up of the marriage of the top actress with her ex-hubby, Dejo Richards is money.

According to our source, the Rivers State-born actress, who had particularly been the bread winner of the household could not handle the heat of her wealth, part of which comes as Globacom ambassador and decided to let loose what she has been holding together over the years. Her marriage produced one beautiful daughter.

NGOZI EZEONU

This top actress packed out of her matrimonial home many years ago on account of her husbands alleged unfaithfullness as he dumped her for another woman whom he pregnanted.

It was also gathered that before her husband's extra marital affair, she had been allegedly linked with a handsome young actor whose bed she was said to be warming.

FRED AND AGATA AMATA

The handsome actor, producer and director and TV presenter and wife, have always served as a case study of Nollywood couple whose marriage hit the rocks as a result of infidelity. Though, they attribute the break-up to irreconcilable differences, a close source has it that the actor terminated the marriage due to the wife's infidelity while he had also been involved in extra-marital affairs. One of who is a top actress and ex beauty queen.

STEPHANIE OKEREKE

This A List actress is said to be very happy with her divorce as she sees her self as being better of without her ex-footballer husband, Chikelu Ileoanusi.

The reason for their breakup is attributed to financial problems as she took charge of putting food on their table which nearly ruined her financially. Our source also revealed that the screen diva found out that all the stories the ex-hubby told her about himself before they got married were all lies.

ENCHARIA ANUNOBI-EKWU

Although, she wanted her marriage with Charles Ekwu to last, the ex-hubby had other plans as he depended on the actress for his own welfare and that of the family until he was caught red-handed making love to their 13-years-old house girl.

She made the actress to file a divorce suit. Revealing the reason for the dissolution of the marriage, the actress said, “it has not been easy because I have always been responsible financially in sustaining the marriage, we have been living in the house I secured as a spinster even after marriage because of the love I have for him.”

CLARION CHUKWURA

She is one actress who has married two husbands but not with any of them today. She has laid the blame for her failed marriages as the prize she has to pay as an artiste.

According to her, she has realised the fact that men come to them because they are stars and move on immediately they realise that artistes are ordinary people.

CHIEGE ALISIGWE

The breakup of the marriage of this top actress is said to be based on extra-marital affairs. The actress, who was married to a UK-based businessman alleged that the man had other relationships, unable to bear it, she came back to Nigeria to continue her life until she met her second husband last year, an Enugu-based police officer.

SHAN GEORGE

She first got married as a teenager but left the marriage after giving birth to two boys, she later married a US-based guy, Tony Nwosisi, but she later found out that the man was married to another woman who had given him children at the time of his marriage to Shan, so she decided to quit the marriage for good.

Apart, form these actresses who have suffered broken marriages, there are others who are single and eager to hook a husband by all means, they include Ibinabo Fiberesima, Genevieve Nnaji, Rita Dominic, Uche Jumbo, Dakore Egbuson Lilian Bach, etc.

FEMI ADEBAYO AND KHADIJAT

Funke Akindele was on the centre of this crash.Nollywood's fat rising stars from the Yoruba speaking movies and son of vetran actor – adebayo salami [popularly known as Oge Bello], Femi Adebayo crashed union with his wife Khadijat is most recent. The lawyer turned actor who marriage to pretty Khadijat produced three lovely children saw the marriage crash with allegations of a purported affair with the most sought after Nigerian actress, Funke Akindele, which they have both denied. He sent wife packing from their matrimonial home and refused to take heed by his wife and her parents to work things out

JENIFER ELIOGU AND HUSBAND

Jenifer Eliogu's marriage crashed months after she delivered her second son where she lost her husband to a Swiss woman and their apartment at lekki. The 5-years-Old marriage produced two kids who now live ain the Ikeja metropolis after her husband who is an international businessman purportedly moved to Switzerland finally to be with his Swiss wife.

HILDA DOKUBO AND KARO MBRAKPO
The speculations are that they have both accused each other of infidelity and Karo Mbrakpo leaving the matrimonial home that was built by actress turned commissioner during ex-Gov. Odili's tenure – Hilda and now resides in a hotel. Karo, who was initially based in Lagos, was alleged to have been filled with tales of his wife's activities in Port Harcourt, one which he could no longer handle and Hilda returned the accusations that eventually ended the union.

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