Jimmie Allen and Wife Alexis File for Divorce Weeks Before Sexual Battery Lawsuit

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Jimmie Allen and wife Alexis Gale have officially filed for divorce, just weeks after announcing their separation.In the court docs, obtained by ET, both Allen and Gale filed for divorce on April 28, which they also listed as their date of separation.

They both also cited «irreconcilable differences» as the reason for their split.While Allen is asking for joint custody of their two daughters, Naomi, 3, and Zara, 1, Gale, who is pregnant with the couple's third child, is asking that the children live primarily with her.

Allen is also a dad to son Aadyn, 8, from a previous relationship.«Wife would show that it is in the best interest of the parties' minor children that wife be named the primary residential parent of the parties' minor children with reasonable parenting time for husband upon the divorce of the parties to this cause,» the docs state regarding Gale's request.Additionally, she is asking the «Down Home» singer to pay for her and the kids' health insurance, and requests that Allen name her as the beneficiary of his life insurance.Gale is also asking to be awarded her own property and for an equitable division of all marital assets, as well as alimony, noting in the docs that she is «dependent» on Allen's income for her support now and in the future.The pair's divorce filing also comes ahead of a new sexual battery lawsuit leveled against the 37-year-old country crooner.

In a report published by , a woman, who worked as Allen's former manager, filed a lawsuit on Thursday in Tennessee federal court in which she claims that during a work trip to Los Angeles in March 2021, Allen allegedly raped her following his appearance as a celebrity guest on .The woman, who is identified only as «Jane Doe» in the report, claims.