Dangote's Ex- Girl Friend Demands $5 Million In Exchange For A Non-Disclosure Agreement

Nigerian billionaire business tycoon and philanthropist, also the wealthiest person in Africa, and the richest Black person in the world , Aliko Dangote filed at a Miami-Dade County Court in Florida, U.S. against his former American girlfriend, Autumn Spikes, who exposed a part of his body via a social media post.<br />According to documents obtained by PremiumTimes, the wealthy businessman used the pseudonym, John Doe, with AD, which stands for the ‘acronym’ for his name, Aliko Dangote, as his alias.<br /><br />One of the court documents filed by the plaintiff on January 22, is titled, ‘Complaint petition for declaratory judgment complaint for (about) extortion petition for injunctive relief’.<br /><br />It stated that Mr Dangote’s “business acumen has made him a target for coercion by the defendant”, adding that Ms Spikes demanded “meritless claims of $5 million” in the nature of “palimony to which she is not legally entitled”.<br /><br />Palimony is an amount of money a law court orders someone to pay regularly to a former partner whom they were living with but were not married to.<br /><br />“Autumn Spikes has made a demand that the plaintiff pays her five million dollars ($5,000,000.00) as shown in Exhibit 1,” Mr Dangote’s court document states.<br /><br />Mr Dangote who had tried to quickly end his relationship with Ms. Spikes asked his former mistress for a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) about their affair.<br /><br />But through her representatives, Ms. Spikes demanded $5 million in exchange for the NDA.<br /><br />The demand was followed by an email by Mr. Dangote’s lawyer, Mr. Fleisher, to Ms. Spikes’ lawyer, Paul Petruzzi, on January 13, asking for “the basis of Ms. Spikes’ demand”.<br /><br />Responding to Mr Fleisher’s email, Mr Petruzzi described the affair between his client and the billionaire as “an ongoing initimate relationship for nearly the entire past decade since she was pretty young”.<br /><br />Mr Petruzzi added in the email that ”the relationship was quite involved and pretty interestin