Daddy Yankee Files $250 Million Lawsuit Against Ex-Wife, Her Sister Over Alleged Financial Mismanagement

Mar. 15, 2025

Daddy Yankee and his wife Mireddys González pose for a photo on the field before the game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Carolina Panthers at Raymond James Stadium on January 01, 2023 in Tampa, Florida.Photo: Julio Aguilar/Getty

Daddy Yankeehas filed a $250 million lawsuit against his ex-wife and her sister, alleging the women mismanaged two of his companies and defamed him.

Attorneys for both parties did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s requests for comment.

According to allegations in the lawsuit, González — from whomDaddy Yankee split in Decemberafter nearly 30 years of marriage — and Castellanos allegedly obtained $100 million from the corporate bank accounts of two of the music star’s businesses: El Cartel Records, which he founded in 1997, and Los Cangris Inc. (Billboardreported that Gonzalez previously served as CEO, and her sister as secretary/treasurer).

Daddy Yankee and wife during Premio Lo Nuestro a la Musica Latina 2007 - Show at American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida, United States.Rodrigo Varela/WireImage

The suit alleged that the money was the sisters’ attempt to liquidate assets before they were forced, per a court order, to hand them over, according to theTimes.

Yankee (né Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez) eventually became the president of the companies once more, and upon regaining control, allegedly discovered “administrative and fiscal irregularities,” according to the suit, including deleted emails and uncashed checks for royalty payments that had expired before Gonzalez and Castellanos ever deposited them, costing the star “thousands of dollars.”

“Mireddys and Ayeicha González Castellanos proceeded to concentrate in themselves a greater power than authorized and, together, made negligent and selfish decisions that were detrimental to both the companies and [Yankee] in his personal capacity and as an artist,” the lawsuit claims. “[T]hey did not give an accurate account of their actions, disregarded formalities and requirements of corporate legislation, made financially irresponsible decisions, negligently managed accounting and wrongfully alienated Mr. Ayala Rodríguez from decision-making.”

Daddy Yankee on the red carpet at THE 60TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS broadcast live on both coasts from New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018.Jeffrey Neira/CBS via Getty

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Yankeefiled a motion against Gonzálezin December, claiming she drew an unauthorized $80 million from the bank account of El Cartel Records,Billboardreported.

The couple — who share daughter Jesaaelys, 28, and son Jeremy, 26 — announced in December they would be divorcing, nearly 30 years after they married in March 1995.

“With a heart full of respect and honesty, I want to share some important news about my personal life. After more than two decades of marriage and after many months of trying to save my marriage, which my wife and I share, today my lawyers responded to the divorce petition received from Mireddys,” he wrote on his Instagram Stories. “I respect Mireddys’ decision…[and I appreciate the time we shared] full of blessings and values, of love and with a beautiful family that will continue to be our priority."

source: people.com