Lana Del Rey is officially married to alligator tour boat guide Jeremy Dufrene.
Rumours emerged that they had tied the knot in September, after the singer was seen holding hands with Dufrene at Reading Festival 2024.
Fans then looked into her Instagram posts for any hints of the relationship, and spotted a post from May – seen below – where she called Dufrene “my guy”. Later, the ‘Video Games’ artist responded to the speculation online.
On September 26, the Mail Online claimed that the two got married at a ceremony in Des Allemands, Louisiana – reportedly on the same bayou where Dufrene operates his swamp boat tours. Shortly afterwards, the outlet published a series of photographs and video footage from the event, where Del Rey’s father Rob Grant was seen walking her down the aisle.
Now, it has been confirmed that the ceremony was official, as the couple’s marriage licence was signed and returned to Louisiana’s Lafourche Parish Clerk of Court last week.
While the wedding took place on September 26, it did not become official until the court clerk filed the licence last Friday (October 18), according to the Associated Press.
It also reported that the licence noted Los Angeles pastor Judah Smith – who appears on the singer’s ‘Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd’ track ‘Judah Smith Interlude’, was the officiant of the wedding.
Rolling Stone reported that the two are speculated to have met back in 2019, when Del Rey posted a Facebook album with pictures of her and her friends taking one of Dufrene’s tours.
The wedding marks Del Rey’s first marriage and Dufrene’s second, with the pair having first met in 2019. Dufrene is already a father of two, it is reported.
Earlier this year, Del Rey announced her 10th studio album, ‘Lasso’, which she confirmed would see her venture into the country genre. The record is being made alongside both her regular collaborator, producer and Bleachers frontman Jack Antonoff, and country music maker Luke Laird.
Speaking about the forthcoming project recently, the singer explained that it wouldn’t be a “heavy departure” from her Americana roots.
“If anything, it will just be a little lighter lyrically, and more pointed in a classic country, American, or Southern Gothic production – which again, so many of my songs already are,” she continued.
In May, Del Rey told NME that the follow-up to 2023’s ‘…Ocean Blvd’ would be “more melodic” and “maybe more American Songbook style”.
She said: “When I gave Jack Antonoff his award for Best Producer Of The Year [at the 2024 Grammys], I said, ‘Welcome Nashville to Hollywood and Hollywood, welcome to Nashville’, because the music business has gone country. And it went silent; 5,000 people, dead silent. Then the next week, we had three major artists announce big country albums.”
