Key Takeaways
- 90 Day Fiancé star Shekinah Garner wants estranged husband Sarper Guven to pay $6,189 a month in spousal support and $35,000 in legal fees and costs.
- Garner says frequent trips to Turkey hurt her esthetician business, citing a joint tax return showing her $51,000 business loss alongside roughly $180,000 in net profit from Guven’s comedy business.
- Garner filed for divorce on Sept. 29, citing irreconcilable differences, as the pair’s public split drew allegations about Guven’s interactions with other women.
Shekinah Garner wants Sarper Guven to start writing checks as their 90 Day Fiancé divorce gets increasingly expensive.
Garner is asking a judge to award her $6,189 per month in spousal support and order her estranged husband to cover another $35,000 in attorney's fees and costs, according to court documents obtained by TMZ. The request comes just weeks after Garner filed to end their marriage—and she's arguing that supporting Guven's career came at the expense of her own.
According to Garner, she repeatedly put her esthetician business on hold while traveling between the United States and Turkey during the couple's long-distance relationship. Before Guven received his U.S. visa, Garner says she traveled to Turkey approximately every two months, staying for roughly three weeks at a time over a two-year period.
Those trips weren't just expensive, Garner says. She claims she would close her facial studio while she was overseas, causing her business to take a significant financial hit.
The numbers she's now presenting to the court couldn't look more different.
Garner reportedly claims the couple's joint federal tax return shows Guven's comedy business grossed more than $280,000 and posted approximately $180,000 in net profit. Her own business, meanwhile, allegedly reported a $51,000 net loss.
The financial fight is the latest escalation in a breakup that has become increasingly public since Guven announced their separation in September.
Guven initially declared that their “fairytale love story has come to an end,” while insisting the pair had effectively been separated for months. Garner wasn't initially ready to describe herself as single, however.
“I still see myself as married because I am,” she said after Guven's announcement, adding that she had remained faithful to the vows she made on their wedding day.
“Filing for divorce was not a decision I made lightly or without heartbreak, but I've reached a point of no return,” Garner told TMZ at the time. “I'm choosing to let go with love, grieve what I believed we could have been, and begin moving forward with my life.”
Moving forward hasn't stopped either half of the former 90 Day Fiancé couple from publicly revisiting what went wrong.
Garner has claimed their marriage deteriorated after Guven kicked her and his booking agent off his comedy tour, leaving her spending most of her time in Los Angeles while seeing her husband only a few days each month. She also said she heard Guven was appearing on dating apps and being spotted with other women even while the two remained in contact.
More recently, a woman named Khloey publicly shared purported messages showing Guven flirting with her ahead of one of his comedy shows, calling her “my Barbie” and providing free tickets. She later claimed he was entertaining several other women at the same time.
Guven was already separated at the time and had told Khloey in the messages, “I'm single. Divorce papers filed.”
