A court document purporting to show that Adekunle Gold filed for divorce from his wife, Simi, at the High Court of Lagos State has been confirmed as fake, Society Gist can report. The document, which spread rapidly across Facebook, WhatsApp, and X beginning February 28, 2026, has since been torn apart by legal professionals, and neither artist has responded to its contents.
The forgery, however, did not emerge in a vacuum. It is the latest escalation in a coordinated online campaign targeting the couple that began when Simi’s old tweets resurfaced following her public comments on the viral Mirabel rape allegation controversy.
The one-page petition, stamped with what appears to be Lagos High Court seals, identifies Adekunle Kosoko (Adekunle Gold) as petitioner and Simi Bolatito Kosoko as respondent under Suit No: HCL/FC/2024/0178. It alleges the marriage irretrievably broke down because Simi “controlled” her husband emotionally, financially, and professionally, claimed to be “man of the house,” and created a toxic environment. It requests dissolution of a marriage it claims was solemnized on February 19, 2026, with joint custody of children subject to agreement. The document is dated February 28, 2026, and carries an “Approved” stamp signed by a court clerk.
*Why It Is a Forgery: Point by Point*
Celebrity journalist Stella Dimoko Korkus forwarded the petition to a legal expert, who confirmed it did not match the standard format for divorce filings at the Lagos State High Court.
The suit number was also flagged as incorrect. The lawyer dismissed it as an “Oluwole petition,” the term used in Nigerian legal circles to describe fraudulent or forged documents.
Beyond the legal technicalities, the document contradicts basic public record. Adekunle Gold and Simi married in a private ceremony in January 2019. The petition claims the marriage being dissolved was solemnized on February 19, 2026, a date that does not correspond to any known union between the two.
Nigerians who examined the document on social media also pointed out that court proceedings require the use of government names only, not stage names or aliases. The petition alternates freely between “Adekunle Kosoko” and “Adekunle Gold” within the same legal body, a structural error no legitimate court filing would contain.
The stamps themselves tell a contradictory story. The document carries both a “Filed for Divorce” header stamp and a separate “Filed 28 Feb 2026” footer stamp; Lagos courts do not use the former terminology. The “Certified True Copy” endorsement at the bottom appears positioned and formatted inconsistently with authentic Lagos High Court certifications.
The forgery landed at a calculated moment. Simi had become the subject of intense online backlash after critics resurfaced an old 2016 tweet interpreted negatively, as broader conversations about the Mirabel rape allegation dominated Nigerian social media. A fake apology screenshot also began circulating during the same period, and memes followed.
The situation intensified further when a resurfaced video of a cleric claiming to have prophesied trouble for the couple’s marriage began circulating, drawing fresh attention and speculation about the state of their union.
The divorce petition appears designed to land on top of that existing pressure, creating the impression of a private marital crisis spilling into the courts.
Adekunle Gold broke a brief social media silence on March 3 with a tweet reading “EJA NLA 2026,” a Yoruba phrase meaning “Big Fish 2026,” widely interpreted as a hint at an upcoming project. It was not the message of a man navigating an active court filing.
Simi had not posted on X as of the same date, having stepped back following the earlier backlash. Neither artist has publicly acknowledged the petition or responded to its contents. Societygist reached out to their management; no response had been received at the time of publication.
What this episode confirms is not a failing marriage. It confirms the maturation of a new category of celebrity attack in Nigeria: the AI-assisted or digitally fabricated legal document, designed to look authoritative enough to bypass initial scrutiny and spread before fact-checkers catch it.
Court stamps, suit numbers, and official seals are now reproducible by anyone with design software or access to an AI image tool, and a public already primed with genuine controversy will share first and question later.
Adekunle Gold and Simi’s marriage is, by all available evidence, intact. The document that claimed otherwise was built to deceive, and it nearly succeeded.