$6,189 a month. $35,000 in legal fees. And a ledger with more than $280,000 on one side and a $51,000 loss on the other. That is the math Shekinah Garner put before a judge in her divorce from Sarper Güven, according to court documents detailed by InTouch Weekly on November 14.
To be clear: the monthly figure itself is not fresh news. The $6,189 ask first surfaced on November 8, when TMZ obtained the filing. What the November 14 report adds is the detail inside the paperwork: the trips, the closed studio, and the tax-return figures behind the amount. The filing cites irreconcilable differences, and no ruling on the support request or the legal fees has been reported.
Shekinah filed for divorce in September, and her case, in the filing’s own terms, is that she put her esthetician business on the back burner to support Sarper’s comedy career. The InTouch report contains no direct quotes from Garner or Güven — only the claims and figures in the court papers. So the argument has to stand on the numbers.
Twelve Trips, Three Weeks at a Time
Before Sarper received his U.S. visa, Shekinah flew to Turkey about every two months for two years, staying roughly three weeks each time. That works out to roughly a dozen trips and some 36 weeks away from home — and every time she left, she closed her Los Angeles facial studio. Her filing says the repeated shutdowns strangled the business, which ended the stretch with a net loss of about $51,000. Running her own esthetician business, she argues, was the dream she shelved for his career.
The Other Side of the Ledger: $280,000 in Laughs
The filing then points at what grew while her studio went dark. Citing the couple’s joint federal tax return, Shekinah says Sarper’s comedy business grossed more than $280,000, with about $180,000 in net profit. Set the two lines side by side and her argument writes itself: his business banked six figures while hers bled $51,000 — the price, she says, of two years spent flying back and forth. Over a full year, the monthly request alone would total $74,268.
The $35,000 Bill Before the First Check
Then there is the second number in the filing: $35,000 toward her attorney’s fees and legal costs. It lands before a single support check would, and it is part of why the request reads less like a monthly allowance and more like a full accounting of a marriage. A judge has not been reported to approve or reject any of it.
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That is where the fandom divides, straight down the ledger. One camp says she paid for the runway: she closed her studio, crossed an ocean a dozen times, and watched his comedy career turn into a $180,000 business — so $6,189 a month is not a windfall, it is the bill coming due. The other camp says divorce means standing on your own feet: the marriage lasted under two years, from their November 2024 wedding to the September 2026 separation, and alimony is for a spouse who gave up a career, not a payout for a marriage that ended. Shekinah, that side argues, still has her own name and platform — and a business to rebuild.
So here is the question the filing really asks: if two years of closed doors and Turkey trips helped build Sarper a $180,000 comedy business, is $6,189 a month the fair price of that runway — or should Shekinah rebuild on her own?
