New details have emerged on the situations that led to the recent crash of Mercy Aigbe's 7-year-old marriage.
Mercy Aigbe and Lanre Gentry on their wedding day in 2013.
Nigerians have been left totally startled by the sudden crash of
38-year-old actress, Mercy Aigbe's marriage to 50-year-old husband,
Lanre Gentry.
Drama began when on Friday, April 28, she published a cryptic post
on her Instagram page, calling for Nigerians to ‘say no’ to domestic
violence.
Observers wondered if she was suffering the same fate as millions of Nigerian women who were stuck in abusive marriages.
About the same time, her hotelier husband, shared a now deleted
post that said ‘Say no to promiscuous women.’ It didn’t take long for
fans to deduce that something was wrong. By the end of the day, two
photos of the actress badly bruised and battered surfaced online.
According to an exclusive report by NET,
it has been revealed that the Aigbe-Gentry marriage was a toxic mix of
mutual infidelity, lies, and pretence that was eventually broken by a
financial crisis that worsened an already bad situation.
A source close to the family (who chose not to be named for obvious reasons) disclosed details of the tempestuous marriage.
‘The marriage was destined to break’, the source said. ‘Mercy Aigbe has been promiscuous all through the marriage and this has caused a strain between them since the beginning.
‘Some of us have always known that this would happen someday. A
married woman cannot be sleeping about like that. A lot of people
thought that after she remarried, she would have calmed down.’
When pressed on that point, the source further disclosed that Mercy
Aigbe has always maintained amorous relationships with other men for
financial favours while she was married to Gentry.
‘Where do you think she gets all her money from, movies? How
much do Nigerian actresses make for their movie roles? If you compare it
with their luxurious lifestyle, you’ll see that it doesn’t add up.’
‘Let me give you an example: for someone who likes to travel as
much as she does, each trip she takes outside the country takes nothing
less than N3million. Take a look at her Instagram posts. She always
flies business class. The cheapest amount you can get a business class
ticket to Dubai is N900,000. Don’t you see the pictures she posts
online? Mr Gentry simply does not have the funds to foot that bill
multiple times a year.’
The source went on to say that notable politicians who are said to
have Nollywood actresses on their payroll for various sexual adventures
have Mercy Aigbe on speed dial. ‘These are the people that help Mercy maintain the facade of being an A-lister’.
However, it is not as if Lanre Gentry himself was a victimised
husband who was played by his wife. The self-styled ‘Asiwaju’ has also
been a philanderer whose life of indiscretion was well known to his
wife.
Even before he got married to Mercy, his penchant for pretty young
things was well known and became constant source of worry to his wife.
His Oregun hotel, Laveronique was a rendezvous of sorts for his
flirtations.
But Mercy, who had once been married and has an 18-year-old
daughter from that relationship along with a six-year-old son with
Gentry, turned a blind eye and busied herself by spending the money she
got from him as well as what she got from her lovers.
Unfortunately for him, the current economic downturn has taken a
toll on his business and he is not as buoyant as he used to be few years
ago.
Mercy Aigbe and her husband
The NET reports that according to the well placed source, ‘The
man has a hotel where Lagos-based actors and actresses use to shoot
their movies, but the business was mismanaged and nobody goes there
anymore.
‘As of now, he doesn’t have any business going on for him. How
many wide-mouthed actresses can live with that type of hopelessness? The
situation has gotten so bad that now Mercy can openly cavort with the
politicians that have been on her case since. I’m sure that in no time,
her shop in Omole will be shifted to Lekki as she has always dreamed
of.’
The last straw that broke the camel’s back for the couple was a
combination of Mercy’s sudden boldness and her husband’s latest fling
with a very close associate of hers. Opemititi, as the Covenant
University graduate is called, was very close to Mercy.
She had been said to have taken the younger woman under her wings,
even introducing her to some ‘sugar daddies’ that flushed her with cash
that she left her bank job for a flimsy interior decor business that had
little or no structure.
Mercy had trusted her so much because of the secrets they both
shared it is was shocking to her that this person could betray her by
sleeping with her husband.
Consequently, she cut Opemititi off from her in the last one month and decided to duke it out with her husband.
The issues eventually overheated and spilled into a fight that many couples could have overlooked.
Gentry asked Aigbe to cook a special meal for him and his friends.
She refused to do so and her husband pounced on her as he had reportedly
done in the past.
But by now, Mercy Aigbe had had enough and fought back bitterly,
lashing out from all the pain and anger of several years.
Unsurprisingly, his strength was incomparable to hers and he beat her to
a pulp.
For Mercy, that was one beating too many and she began divorce
proceedings when she was strong enough to leave a private hospital where
she had been receiving treatment.
For a couple who had made such a big show of being endlessly in
love with each other, their sad end was enabled by a long period of
resentment caused by both parties’ infidelity to the other.
Eventually, Instagram posts were not enough to save the marriage,
and instead became where the Aigbe-Gentrys ended their seven-year
nuptials.
For now, the actress is holed up in a Magodo apartment while her
husband is exploring his options in a divorce proceeding, seeing that of
all the three women that have children for him, Mercy is the only one
who he married and might lose all he has worked for should the case go
in her favour.
‘The two other women who have children for Lanre are currently
laughing at him because as things stand now, he’s the biggest loser,‘ the source concluded.
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