David Geffen's estranged husband has dropped a lawsuit that levelled abuse allegations against the American media mogul, while seeking lifelong financial support. Geffen is locked in a legal battle over temporary spousal support and potential asset division with Donovan Michaels, a former exotic dancer who married the 82-year-old billionaire without a prenup in 2023. But Michaels' lawyers have now filed a court notice dropping a civil lawsuit that had sought "financial support commensurate with his lifestyle for the rest of his life". Michaels' civil case, brought in July after Geffen initiated divorce proceedings, aired years of dirty laundry and levelled shocking allegations against the Asylum Records and Geffen Records founder. In it, he claimed that Geffen began paying him for sex after they met through a website in 2016, and that he had been treated as a "sexual commodity". At the heart of the lawsuit was Michaels' claim that Geffen promised to provide him with "lifetime support". Michaels said he relied on this assurance when he gave up a modelling career to be a full-time husband. Geffen, meanwhile, has dismissed Michaels' claims as "petty gossip and salacious lies". Now that the civil lawsuit has been dropped, lawyers for the estranged couple will focus their attention on the divorce proceedings.