Dr. Dre has been ordered to pay a six-figure sum to his ex-wife each month after she requested initial monthly payments of $2 million.

Nicole Young, who was married to the rapper for 24 years, filed for divorce and initially requested that he pay her $2 million per month, as well as covering her $5 million lawyer's fees, Page Six reported last year.

However, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge has now ordered the rapper to pay his ex-wife a much smaller sum in spousal support.

Radar Online reports that it is a temporary decision until a final one has been reached.

The court document read: "[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."

The pair married back in 1996 and share two children, however, Young filed for divorce in early 2020, citing "irreconcilable differences".

Dr Dre and his ex-wife. [[imagecaption|| Credit: Alamy / Abaca Press]]

Young claims that the pair signed a prenup before their 1996 marriage, but the rapper went on to tear it up.

She said that Dr. Dre "felt ashamed he had pressured me into signing a premarital agreement and he tore up multiple copies of the agreement in front of me" and that the day it was torn up, they agreed that it was no longer valid.

However, he is now denying this and arguing that it should be enforced as the couple now divorces.

Rolling Stone reports that the rapper has put an unverified estimation of his own net worth at a billion.

Dr Dre. [[imagecaption|| Credit: Alamy / MediaPunch Inc]]

One of the rapper's new songs was recently leaked, TMZ reports, and in it, Dr. Dre describes his ex-wife as a "greedy b*tch."

According to TMZ, Young filed for an emergency restraining order against her ex-husband because of the song where he also describes her as a "perjurer."

He said of his recent hospital admission for a brain aneurysm at the start of the year: "(B***h) Trying to kill me with them lies and that perjury, I see you trying to f**k me while I'm in surgery/In ICU, death bed, on some money s**t."

Young said of the new track that "he has upped the ante and is now outright threatening me to keep my mouth shut or else."

The restraining order request was ultimately denied because of "insufficient evidence".

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Dr Dre ordered to pay six-figure sum each month to his ex-wife after she requested $2m per month