Why 9ice’s marriage broke down

Facts are beginning to emerge on why hip-hop artiste 9ice and his wife, Tony Payne broke-up. The showbiz couple who announced their break-up via a press statement from 9ice’s publicist in January 2010, got married on Thursday July 17, 2008 after Ruggedman introduced the couple in 2006.
Before they broke-up, the couple was seen as the ultimate couple owing to their rising profile in their choosing profession.
9ice was collecting awards and smiling to the bank as his music found favour in the market while Tony who has been around the industry as make-up specialist, designer, and artistes manager was getting well-deserved accolades. Not a few predicted that they were meant for each other for life;
but they shocked us all when they announced they were going their separate ways. Expectedly rumours started flying around as many said 9ice dumped his wife after making money. Others said he was beating his wife and chasing other women.
Almost everybody was on Tony’s side. But after the release of 9ice’s album, Tradition, people started pointing accusing fingers at Tony Payne and Rugged Man as true causes of their breaking-up. People alleged 9ice caught her in bed with a friend of his as the lyrics in his song, Once beaten twice shy suggested. In the song, 9ice said he caught a lover giving his friend blow job. Tongues started wagging and people alleged it was Ruggedman the singer was referring to.
But we can reveal that the couple broke up because 9ice later heard that Tony had dated lots of people in the music industry without telling him. A source in the music industry revealed that before their marriage, Tony dated quite a number of prominent musicians and one particular producer but failed to tell 9ice. Unknown to 9ice she had also dated some of his friends too and it was not until after a year into the marriage he discovered. The incident led to constant arguments and eventually ended their marriage.
Immediately after their breaking-up, radio DJs decided not to play 9ice’s music in solidarity with Tony, because most of them knew her before 9ice and felt 9ice kind of used her to get necessary contacts to advance his career and dumped her. They said the story that she dated lots of people in the industry before marrying him was an open secret and accused 9ice of knowing long before the marriage.