Who is Donovan Michaels? Billionaire David Geffen’s husband once dated women, changed names several times

Billionaire magnate David Geffen, 80, is secretly married to a 30-year-old model Donovan Michaels who does odd jobs in New York and Miami. He also changed his name several times and has a shady past, according to sources.

A source told New York Post that Michaels trained Geffen. The latter posted a photo of him and staff quarantining on his $400 million mega yacht amid the pandemic. Last Monday, Geffen and his husband were seen landing at a New York City heliport. The couple was married in March in a ceremony attended by only four people.

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Who is Donovan Michaels?

When Donovan Michaels was born in Michigan, he was named David Armstrong. He apparently had “very humble beginnings” and he was one of 13 children.

Around the time he moved to Florida in 2014, he changed his name to Brandon Foster. He began dancing and promoting parties at Miami’s gay clubs “along with plenty of other hot sexy guys.”

He frequently flaunts his toned physique on his social media and even claimed to put on a good show” for anyone who would pay to access his footage in one of the posts from September 2014. Around 2016 or 2017 Michaels adopted his current name and also left Florida for New York to build his modeling career.

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He claimed on his social media that he was represented by Soul Artist Management. It is also the same agency that represents supermodel Tyson Beckford.

A former unnamed girlfriend of Michaels said that she knows for a fact that he used to date, women. “I wouldn’t be surprised. I mean, he’s very attractive,” she said. “He would tell me people just assumed that he was into guys from what he posts on Instagram. I know that he was getting comments like that from gay men, that he was really attractive and in really good shape.”

A former friend said that Michaels was “super-secretive” and rarely spoke about his past. “It took a while to really get to know him because he was really private about his past,” said the friend adding that Michaels was “always searching for something to help him understand his past and what he experienced.”

“I think he rebelled a lot when he was younger, and that was a big part of why he left,” the friend added.