Globe July 20, 2020

MONEYBAGS rap mogul Dr. Dre is reeling in shock after his wife of 24 years, Nicole Young, socked him with divorce papers — and is set to claim at least half of his whopping $1 billion fortune! Sources blab that the 55-year-old hip-hop honcho — who founded the huge Beats Electronics brand — had no prenup and was blindsided by the June 29 filing of his 50-year-old spouse. “Nicole was going to file for divorce months ago, but he talked her out of it,” snitches an insider. “He wasn’t aware of this filing, so it’s a big shock for him. She’s done with him.” Co-producer of the 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton, Dr. Dre — real name Andre Romelle Young — has a checkered past, including allegations of abusive behavior,…

SINGER Jennifer Hudson is showing a lot of R-E-S-P-E-C-T for music legend Aretha Franklin by turning into a dead ringer for the late Queen of Soul for an upcoming flflick! A trailer for the December biopic Respect that was screened at the recent BET Awards showed Hudson in her jaw-dropping transformation. Mom-of-four Franklin battled weight, booze and health issues before dying at 76 of pancreatic cancer in her Detroit home on August 2018. As GLOBE has reported, the Think singer’s four sons are battling over her $60 million fortune.…

ADMITTED college-entrance cheaters Lori Loughlin and hubby Mossimo Giannulli have been driven out of the ritzy Bel-Air Country Club after pleading guilty in the Varsity Blues bribery scandal! The couple resigned after a group of members thundered with fury when the swanky club’s board of directors suspended the couple instead of kicking them out, says a source. Former board president Michael Gallagher was so enraged he quit in an explosive letter, which notes the club’s members are “gentlemen and gentlewomen” and “not felons.” “You cannot be a member in good standing and guilty of a felony at the same time,” he fumes. “The board action … now establishes our Club as a place of refuge and comfort for known felons.” Gallagher also says by merely suspending the couple, “our Club has…

TROUBLED Kelly Clarkson’s sudden meltdown on her TV talk show — and shocking confession she’s plunged into a dark pit with her divorce from hubby Brandon Blackstock — has a mental health expert urging the star to seek help! On the June 24 episode of her NBC gabfest, the 38-year-old Kelly blurted, “I suffer from depression” after singer Demi Lovato, 27, detailed her struggles with emotional problems. Clarkson praised the Heart Attack singer, saying, “Thanks for just being open because I felt like this was just me and, like, knowing that somebody else is going through it makes you not feel alone and so depressed about it.” The mother of Blackstock’s daughter River Rose, 6, and son Remington Alexander, 4, and stepmom of his kids Savannah, 18, and Seth, 13,…

ELTON JOHN’S ex-wife, Renate Blauel, is trying to stop the Rocketman from blabbing about their four-year marriage that ended when he came out of the closet. The pair had signed a nondisclosure pact to “never discuss the intimate details of their marriage,” which lasted from 1984 to 1988, and she’s gone to a British court demanding an injunction against parts of his memoir, Me Elton John. Once a serious cocaine abuser, Elton later explained he was in a funk over splitting from a boyfriend and a junkie when he wed Renate, saying: “A drug addict thinks like this: ‘I’ve had enough boyfriends, and that’s not made me happy, so I’ll have a wife — that will change everything.’ “And I loved Renate, but you know, it is one of the…

PRINCE William’s furious wife, Kate, confronted sister-in-law Meghan over “vile public lies” and issued a seething ultimatum: Shut your mouth or you and Harry will lose your $10 million royal allowance, palace insiders tell GLOBE! Sources say Kate’s chilling financial threat left Meghan reeling because she and Harry are facing a cash crunch after leaving the royal family and moving to California to pursue the duchess’ Hollywood dreams. Initially, Kate called her sister-in-law to end the bitter feud that’s ripped William apart from his kid brother, royal insiders dish. “But Meghan was so arrogant, Kate finally exploded,” a high-level courtier tells GLOBE. “She tore into Meghan over remarks branding Kate a boring phony and repeating rumors William had strayed with one of their neighbors. “That last was too much for…