Quick Answer
Adult creator and podcaster Lena Nersesian, known publicly as Lena the Plug, filed for divorce from Adam Grandmaison, known publicly as Adam22, in Los Angeles Superior Court on June 1, 2026. The filing landed on Lena's 35th birthday and ended a three year marriage that doubled as a tightly intertwined business partnership.
The filings ask for an equitable split of shared real estate, podcast intellectual property and liquid assets, plus sole legal and physical custody of the couple's five year old daughter. The listed date of separation is April 15, 2026. Adam22 responded publicly within hours of the filing becoming public on his personal social media accounts.
The marriage and the business
Lena and Adam married in 2023 after several years together as a couple and as collaborators across overlapping internet brands. Adam built No Jumper into one of the most influential hip hop podcasts of the past decade. Lena built Plug Talk into one of the highest grossing creator owned adult subscription brands online, and the two shows shared a Los Angeles studio, a production team and a long list of crossover guests.
That business overlap is the reason the divorce filings read more like a corporate dissolution than a personal one. Almost every revenue line in their joint household runs through entities one or both of them control, and the filings make clear that disentangling the cash flows is the first real fight.
What the filings ask for
Per the petition filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, the asset division requests cover four main categories.
- Studio City residence. Estimated at roughly $1.15 million in equity. Lena is asking for a 50 percent equitable split, which on the listed numbers comes to about $576,000.
- Shared production studio. Estimated at roughly $1.1 million. Lena is asking for either a 50 percent ownership share or an asset buyout in lieu of continued partnership.
- Podcasting intellectual property. The combined No Jumper and Plug Talk IP is listed in the filing at a modest $40,000, almost certainly a placeholder pending discovery, with a request for a 50 percent ownership split.
- Liquid cash and savings. Listed at $105,000 with a request for a 50 percent split, or $52,500. Lena is also asking to retain household furniture and personal property estimated at $50,000.
The petition is explicit that Lena does not currently have direct access to the joint business bank accounts and that all valuations are estimates pending formal discovery. That is a standard line in cases like this, and it signals the actual numbers will move materially during the proceedings.
The custody and support request
The couple share a five year old daughter. Lena's filing asks for sole legal and physical custody, with the option of visitation for Adam structured around her existing schedule. The custody request is paired with a child support request and an interim spousal support request to bridge the gap between the listed date of separation and the entry of any final judgment.
The petition notes that Lena's current personal monthly income is limited to a $3,000 spousal support stipend provided by Adam since separation, which is the basis for her request to formalize a higher amount during the divorce proceedings. Her legal team's framing is that her labor is foundational to the shared brands but her access to the underlying revenue has been controlled through accounts in Adam's name.
Adam22's public response
True to his long running provocateur persona online, Adam responded within hours of TMZ breaking the story. He posted an Instagram story with a one word caption, soundtracked to a hip hop track about leaving relationships, and followed it with a satirical post offering to buy a car for any prospective dating partners who reached out to his direct messages.
The tone is consistent with how Adam has handled previous personal news cycles, which is to lean into the attention rather than try to manage it down. The strategic risk is that the same posts become exhibits in the financial proceedings. Court filings on income and lifestyle expectations often pull from public social media when one spouse is positioning around a support request.
What the case will actually turn on
Three legal questions sit underneath the headline asset list.
- Characterization of the businesses. California is a community property state. The court will need to decide which portions of No Jumper, Plug Talk and the production studio were built or improved during the marriage. That distinction determines what share is divisible.
- Income tracing. Adult subscription platforms, podcast ad networks and YouTube revenue route through layered corporate structures. The discovery process will need to map the cash flows before a meaningful split number can be calculated.
- Goodwill and personal brand. Both individuals are the brand. Courts in California have a long line of rulings on how to value personal goodwill versus enterprise goodwill in divorce cases, and the answer here directly affects the spousal support and asset division math.
What this means for the No Jumper and Plug Talk audiences
Both shows continue to publish on their normal cadence as of the filing date. Long term, the case raises questions about ownership of the podcast feeds, the YouTube channels and the back catalog of episodes. Audiences should expect at minimum a period of uncertainty around new programming and possible spin offs if the IP is divided rather than sold to a single party.
For the broader creator industry, the case is a watch worthy template. The number of married creator couples operating multi million dollar businesses across multiple platforms has grown sharply in the past five years. A high profile California divorce with this much shared IP becomes a precedent that lawyers serving similar couples will reference for years.
The takeaway
Lena the Plug filed for divorce from Adam22 on June 1, 2026, in Los Angeles, with a listed date of separation of April 15. The filings ask for an equitable split of the Studio City home, the shared production studio, the No Jumper and Plug Talk IP and the couple's liquid assets, plus sole custody of their five year old daughter and an increased interim spousal support payment. Adam22 responded publicly within hours with characteristically provocative posts. The real fight will play out in discovery, where the actual cash flows of the joint businesses get mapped and the community property characterization gets argued.
