Alicia Keys filed paperwork to trademark the name Alicia Teas.

The 15-time Grammy award winning artist’s company, AK Worldwide, filed the rights to the name, according to TMZ. 

The 42-year-old singer appeared to get the idea for her own tea line after her husband Swizz Beatz, 45, gifted her a personalized tea line in 2020 for her birthday.

In a since deleted post on her Instagram in late January 2020, Alicia was gifted personalized tea bags he called ‘Alicia Teas.’

She told him at the time: ‘It means you did this very far in advance,’ according to Revolt TV. 

Swizz told her at the time: ‘Everybody in Starbucks all around the world gonna see Alicia Teas. Happy birthday baby. Love you.’

The lovebirds first met in the 1990s when she was 14 and he was 16 – they met via mutual friends but did not hit it off.

When they both found success in the music industry, the stars consistently attended the same events but Alicia was not interested, per People.

‘We ended up in the same circles at various awards shows and industry events. He’d usually pull up in some fancy car, rolling deep with his Bronx crew and shining with diamonds. I wanted nothing to do with that scene or with Swizz,’ she said in her memoir More Myself.

The duo worked on a music project together in 2008 – which led to Alicia getting to know Swizz as a person.

‘The more we talked the more I noticed how his mind worked. Beyond the baggy jeans and arm tats there was depth. He was so aware of what was happening around the world,’ she wrote.

The couple began dating fall 2008; Two years later, in May 2010 – they announced their engagement and that they were expecting their first child together. 

They wed July 31, 2010 and welcomed their first child together on October 14, 2010: Eqypt Daoud Dean, now aged 12.

Their second son Genesis Ali Dean, born December 27, 2014, now aged eight. 

Swizz, born Kasseem Daoud Dean, has three children from previous relationships: son Prince Nasir, 22, with ex-partner Nicole Levy; son Kasseem Dean Jr, 16, with his ex-wife Mashonda Tifrere; and daughter Nicole, 15, with singer Jahna Sebastian.

Alicia is also the founder of the skin and makeup brand Keys Soulcare; she created the brand alongside dermatologist Dr. Renee Snyder.

The brand is vegan, cruelty free, and fair trade certified. 

Keys Soulcare also features candles.

Alicia began her professional music career at age 15 – when she was signed by Columbia Records.

The New York native discovered her passion for piano at age six, and started classical piano training the following year.

At age 10, a neighbor who moved gave her their old piano, allowing her to practice for hours at a time.

After she was signed to Columbia Records at age 15 – before negotiating out of her record deal to Arista Records in 1998 due to not wanting to be put it ‘their box’ of who she should be as an artist.

Clive Davis – who was at Arista Records – began his own record label called J Records and signed her to that.

She performed her debut single Fallin on Oprah and it became a hit, going number on Billboard’s Hot 100.

Her debut album Songs in A Minor was released in 2001 to critical and public acclaim.

Alicia’s follow up album The Diary of Alicia Keys proved to be a hit as well; it was released in 2003. 

Her third album As I Am, was released in 2007, and her fourth he Element of Freedom in 2009.

Alicia’s fifth album Girl on Fire dropped 2012, and her latest album Here in 2016.

Joe Jonas officially files for DIVORCE from Sophie Turner – stating that their marriage is ‘irretrievably broken’ and revealing former couple plan to share custody of daughters Willa and ‘D.J.’

• Jonas, 34, has filed divorce paperwork in Miami, Florida
• Turner, 27, and Jonas have been married for just four years and share two kids 
• The divorce filing states the the former couple plan to share custody of their children, three-year-old daughter Willa and a one-year-old referred to as ‘D.J.’

By Charlie Lankston For Dailymail.com

Updated: 16:42 EDT, 5 September 2023

Kroy Biermann has refiled for divorce from Kim Zolciak after a brief reconciliation.

Biermann, 37, filed legal documents Thursday saying that the union has been ‘irretrievably broken,’ TMZ reported.

The former Atlanta Falcons player is requesting sole legal and physical custody of the family’s four minor children, the outlet reported.

He is also asking for child support, alimony and the family’s Milton, Georgia mansion, meaning the Real Housewives Of Atlanta star, 45, would have to vacate the premises. 

Thursday’s filing marks the latest problem for the pair, who have been hindered by major financial and relationship problems in recent months, having initially split in May before calling off their divorce in July.

Biermann and Zolciak had first parted in May; at the time, Biermann called Zolciak a ‘compulsive behavior addict’ who had squandered an astounding $1.5 million dollars of the family finances gambling.

The NFL alum made the allegations against Zolciak after she called police May 4 at their Milton, Georgia mansion, prior to his first divorce filing.

The accusations about Zolciak’s gambling losses were seen in a Milton Police Department bodycam video after officers responded to the home after Kim reported a domestic dispute.

The footage was obtained by RadarOnline.com after Biermann and Zolciak filed for divorce from one another amid a 12-year marriage.   

Biermann – who was cautious as he spoke to law enforcement in hopes Zolciak would not hear him- called the Bravo personality a ‘narcissist to the extreme level.’

Biermann said that Zolciak’s penchant for gambling had grown exponentially in recent years.

‘It’s probably been going on for pretty much our entire marriage and it’s gotten significantly worse,’ Biermann said of Zolciak, who was pictured at a Bitcoin ATM in June in Atlanta. ‘In the last two years, she’s gambled away $700,000 – just in the last two-and-a-half years.’

He added: ‘The total in the marriage was about $1.5 million dollars – and she does it online.’ 

In the incident, Zolciak told police that Biermann had locked in a safe a cache of valuable items she owned that were worth $175,000 – including designer purses and jewelry – and hid the key from her. 

Biermann said he believed the lot of items fell under the classification of community property, adding of the items: ‘The problem is these are the assets, there are no [other] assets to go to.’

Biermann told police that the Don’t Be Tardy alum ‘has decimated everything’ with her penchant for gambling; he added that some of her gaming activity was illegal.

Zolciak and Biermann’s four kids – Kroy Jr., 12, Kash, 11, and twins Kane and Kaia, nine – were at home at the time of the altercation. 

Biermann had adopted Zolciak’s older children from previous relationships – Brielle, 26, and Ariana Biermann, 21 – when they were minors in the couple’s earlier years. 

Brielle has also been dogged by financial issues as of late, as she was sued by American Express over an unpaid balance. 

Zolciak sold off some of daughter Brielle Biermann’s designer goods last month to drum up funds, with asking prices up to $20,000 for the high-ticket items. 

In their first two months of being split – in which both asked the court for sole legal and physical custody of their four younger children – Zolciak and Biermann took issue with one another in court documents.

Zolciak said that Biermann smokes marijuana, calling into credibility his ability to raise their kids; while Biermann claimed that Zolciak’s gambling habit has consumed her time and decimated the family finances.

Biermann told officers they had continued to sleep in the same bed but did not engage with one another.

News broke last month that the reality TV pair had decided not to split, withdrawing their divorce papers in Superior Court of Fulton County in Georgia. They were seen shortly before attending a church together in Atlanta.

Zolciak rose to fame as a member of the cast of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta, and parlayed her popularity into the spinoff Don’t Be Tardy… on Bravo. She also competed on five episodes of Dancing with the Stars in 2015.

Biermann was drafted into the NFL in 2008 after attending Montana, and played eight seasons, all for the Falcons. He has his most productive year on the field in 2012 when he started 14 games, racking up 36 tackles, three sacks and scoring a touchdown on an interception.

The pair exchanged vows in a lavish $1 million wedding on November 11, 2011 – marking the date 11/11/11 – at their Georgia mansion.

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