Billy Ray Cyrus and spouse Firerose’s divorce is finalized
Billy Ray and Firerose Cyrus’s marriage is officially over, three months after the country singer filed for divorce from his Australian wife of less than a year citing ‘irreconcilable differences’.
And after an increasingly bitter and public break up, during which each accused the other of verbal and emotional abuse, court documents signed Monday and obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com show that Firerose walked away with $0.
But according to a source, that’s fine by her. ‘She settled for nothing just to be done with him and get away from the situation,’ the insider told DailyMail.com exclusively.
For the most part the divorce agreement sees each party walk away from the brief marriage with what they brought to it in the first place.
Billy Ray and Firerose Cyrus’s divorce has been finalized three months after the country star, 62, filed for separation
Court documents filed on Monday and obtained by DailyMail.com reveal Firerose – who married the singer in October – walked away with $0 in the divorce
However, the terms of the divorce agreement show that Billy Ray has agreed to hand over any claims he has to credits or royalties on songs that the couple wrote or published together before and during their union.
Billy Ray’s May 22, 2024 divorce filing came just days before Firerose 37, was due to have a double mastectomy following her diagnosis with the BRCA gene meaning she is more likely to contract certain cancers.
During the increasingly contentious divorce Billy Ray appeared to cast doubt on the truth of this claim by subpoenaing her medical records.
She has since rescheduled her surgery.
Speaking Monday a source said, ‘If this went to trial, Firerose and her team would have provided a significant amount of evidence to prove he fabricated a narrative that would benefit his public image.
‘There is no doubt she would have been awarded the divorce, but it was much more important to her that this continuous smear campaign end, and the emotional turmoil stop so she can close the door on this chapter and recover from her surgery peacefully.’
Billy Ray saw things differently, claiming Firerose had only married him to get the last name Cyrus. He said she changed her name from Hodges – her first husband’s last name – just a couple of weeks ago.
‘I’m just very relieved,’ Billy Ray said in a statement to DailyMail.com.
This has been absolutely the most crazy insane scam I have ever heard of,’ he added. ‘Let alone the fact I’m right in the center and basically the target of the scheme.
‘It’s unfortunate it played out this way,’ he said. ‘Not only was it a web of lies that put me in physical danger, it was a matter of the heart.
‘Love is blind – that’s for sure.’
Last month DailyMail.com exclusively revealed shocking audio in which Billy Ray could be heard belittling and mocking the Australian singer whom he married in October 2023.
In an expletive-laden rant that made for often difficult listening the toxicity of the pair’s relationship was writ large.
During the confrontation, which appeared to have been sparked by the 62-year-old singer’s fury at being made late to go on stage for a show, he warned Firerose: ‘If you had just left it the f**k alone, now I’m really f**king p***ed, once again showing you will not listen.
‘I don’t know who the f**k you think you are, but you will not listen…this ain’t about nothing this is about you being a selfish f**king b***h.’
Warming to his them, Billy Ray sneers, ‘I don’t think you’re real smart, I’ve changed my mind on that s**t. What I think you are is a selfish f**king b***h. That’s what you are.’
The terms of the divorce agreement show that Billy Ray agreed to hand over any claims he has to credits or royalties on songs that the couple wrote or published together before and during their marriage
Firerose claims Billy Ray kicked her out of the martial home on May 23, 2024, immediately after he filed for divorce
As she begged him to ‘please stop shouting’ he tells her, ‘This would not be happening if you had just shut your f**king mouth. Look at what a f**king mess you’ve made.
‘What a dumb ass [you are] …’cos you have to know I will not tolerate that s**t. You just f**ked up…f**k you. You know better than that. F**king idiot.’
Further evidence obtained by DailyMail.com showed that the Achy Breaky Heart singer’s vitriol wasn’t limited to his much younger wife but extended to several significant women in his life.
They include superstar daughter, Miley, whom Billy Ray refers to only as ‘devil.’
In other audio heard by DailyMail.com Billy Ray bizarrely speaks of himself in the third person before turning his attention to his daughter, Miley, and uttering the shocking statement, ‘Everyone knows devil’s a skank.’
He then rounded on Miley’s mother, Tish, his wife of 30 years and mother of three of his biological children – Miley, 31, Braison, 30, and Noah, 24 – whom he never refers to by name but instead calls ‘s**t.’
Billy Ray has a son from a previous relationship and adopted Tish’s two older children, Brandi, 37, and Trace, 35, when they married.
In one shocking text exchange with his manager and publicist Scott Adkins, viewed by DailyMail.com, Billy Ray says of Tish,’ She is a liar…a w***e…and a cheat. Complete skank. Scum of the earth. A fraud.’
The bitter split comes after a shocking audio recording emerged of Billy Ray mocking and belittling his now ex-wife Firerose, 37, and disparaging his own daughter Miley
He later owned up to unleashing the expletive-filled rant caught on audio in an Instagram post saying: ‘I was at my wit’s end’
Comparing her to Lindsay Lohan’s mother, Dina, 61, he texted, she ‘Makes Deanna [sic] Lohan look like Mother Theresa.’
Posting on Instagram one day after his rant and texts were exposed, Billy Ray made no attempt to deny the truth of it all.
Instead, he doubled down on his words saying: ‘Hell yeah, I was at my wit’s end. As every day went by, I started realizing something was wrong. And that’s before I knew she [Firerose] was a fraud.’
He went on to make a series of claims about his then-wife.
‘I just knew something wasn’t right. That was before I knew she was David Hodges ex-wife. That’s before I knew her parent’s last name. I had no idea she was arrested for felony residential burglary.
‘I saw before my very own eyes, everything I thought I knew about her, was a lie. She was trying to take over my career, my life and usurp the Cyrus name for own gain.’
In one shocking text exchange with his manager and publicist Scott Adkins, Billy Ray says of Tish: ‘She is a liar…a w***e…and a cheat. Complete Skank. Scum of the earth. A fraud’
Billy Ray also has a tumultuous relationship with Tish Cyrus (far left), his ex-wife of more than 30 years and the mother of three of his biological children – Miley, 31, (far right) Braison, 30, (second from left) and Noah, 24 (third from left). He is also the adoptive father of her two children, including Brandi, 37, (second from right)
Billy Ray’s marriage to Firerose which came just four months after Tish filed for divorce is believed to have strained his relationship with Miley.
The former child star, who grew up on the Disney Channel alongside her father, famously snubbed Billy Ray in her Grammy Awards acceptance speech in February.
Billy Ray was still married to Tish when he first met Firerose in 2010. The Sydney-born musician, who legally changed her name from her birthname of Johanna Scholem, was just 22 and Billy Ray was 48.
The two became friends but nothing happened romantically until Billy Ray reached out to Firerose a decade later and asked her to duet with him on a version of Tanya Tucker’s ‘Delta Dawn.’
He was still married to Tish at the time but told Firerose they were ‘soulmates’ and promised her a romance for the ages.
Instead, just seven months after their October 2023 marriage, with those words ringing hollow in her ears, Billy Ray filed for divorce in an acrimonious split finalized with the swivel of a judge’s ball point pen today.
