Music mogul Dr Dre has been ordered to pay $293,306 per month to his ex-wife Nicole Young in temporary spousal support, reported The Guardian. 

“[Dre] is ordered to pay to the [Nicole] spousal support in the sum of $293,306.00 per month, payable on the first of each month, commencing August 1, 2021,” Dre will pay a total of $3,519,672 per year until Nicole remarries or “enters into a new domestic partnership,” the court document obtained by The Blast.

Dre and Nicole Young got married in 1996. It was Dre’s first marriage and Young was previously married to NBA player Sedale Threatt. The pair share two children together, daughter Truly Young, 19, and son Truice Young, 23. 

The rapper will also pay for Nicole’s health insurance and other fees, including “the expenses for the Malibu, and Pacific Palisades homes.”

According to reports, this order could be temporary as Dre and Young continue continue financial negotiations. The couple was married married for two and a half decades.

Young, in June, filed for divorce after 24 years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for her split from the hip-hop mogul.

Andre Romello Young, also known as Dr Dre is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, audio engineer, and entrepreneur. Dr Dre started his career with World Class Wreckin’ Cru in 1985 and later joined the gangsta rap group N.W.A, that dabbled in social issues through its music in the underground rap scene. Dr Dre founded Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics after previously co-founding Death Row Records. 

Dr Dre popularised West Coast G-funk, a hip hop subgenre that is identified by heavy and slow beats, backed by a synthesizer foundation in the early 1900s.