Selling Sunset star Chelsea Lazkani and estranged husband Jeff declared legally single amid divorce

Selling Sunset star Chelsea Lazkani is ready for a new start after being declared legally single.

A judge has recently signed off on the termination of the marriage, TMZ reported on Tuesday.

The 31-year-old reality star had been in the midst of a divorce from her husband Jeff Lazkani.

Chelsea, whose divorce has played out in public on her Netflix reality series, had previously been in agreement with Jeff on their desire to be declared legally single, according to court documents obtained by the publication.

Even though the two are now legally single, and therefore free to remarry if they desired, the two are apparently still negotiating a divorce settlement to wrap up the matter.

They reportedly filed documents requesting the judge overseeing their divorce to declare them single on Monday, and the judge's decision came after a hearing earlier on Tuesday. 

The exes still have the potentially difficult task of divvying up their assets before their divorce can be finalized. 

TMZ previously reported that it was Jeff who first asked the judge to bifurcate the divorce process and declare the former couple single back in October, and Chelsea appears to have gotten on the same wavelength since then.

Although Chelsea was the first of the two to file for divorce, the process was slowed down as they struggled to come to a swift agreement on a settlement.

In his previous filing, Jeff reportedly told the judge that he and his ex would still settle custody and support issues regarding their children, as well as their asset split, once they were both declared single.

Chelsea had previously requested joint physical and legal custody when she filed for divorce. 

The real estate expert and her ex-husband — who is a managing partner at the ad agency Icon Media Group, which was founded by his mother — share two children: son Maddox Ali Lavon, five, and daughter Melia Iman, four.

The Selling Sunset star previously filed to divorce her estranged husband in March of this year, citing irreconcilable differences.

A week after her filing, Jeff shared his own filing, which also cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split, though he accused Chelsea of being 'physically aggressive' in his documents.

He accused her of hitting him in the face shortly before his filing, which allegedly broke his glasses and gave him a small cut. 

He also accused her of installing a lock on the master bedroom of their $2.9 million, five-bedroom Manhattan Beach home — which he said he is the primary owner of — and of remotely monitoring his visits to the home.

Jeff claimed in his filing that his reality star wife had been 'exhibiting suspicious behavior,' and he claimed that some of his personal belongings had disappeared from the home.

Due to their conflict over the marital home, Jeff had requested that the judge overseeing their divorce prevent either of them from living full-time at the home.

Instead, he request that Chelsea only be allowed in the house for two hours at a time while under supervision. 

The two had been married since 2017, when they tied the knot at the Resort at Pelican Hill in Newport Beach, California.

In 2022, Chelsea revealed to DailyMail.com that her future husband was her first Tinder date after she moved to Los Angeles.

The real estate agent, who was born in North London to Nigerian immigrant parents, said she had only planned to live in California as long as it took to get her MBA, so she was hesitant to put herself on the dating market.

But after giving the dating app a try around 2015, she and Jeff instantly clicked.

'We spoke about 15 times before getting together. I don’t want to waste my time and give my energy to somebody if I don’t think it will be worth it,' she explained. 'I felt like I knew him before we even met, and the connection was immediate.'

The origins of Chelsea's split from Jeff are explored in the latest season of Selling Sunset, in which her colleagues accuse him of carrying on an affair.

Some Selling Sunset fans expressed disappointment with the particularly dramatic turn season eight has taken, as it focuses more on the personal conflicts between members of the Oppenheim Group than their real estate business.

Chelsea and her coworkers may also be in trouble, as Netflix has expressed a desire to focus on crowd-pleasing reality competition shows in the mold of major broadcast series like The Voice, rather than the kind of conflict-driven cable-style reality shows that Selling Sunset represents.