The most romantic thing Ariana Grande ever did on camera lasted about ten seconds. At the end of the “Stuck with U” video, in May 2020, a young man in a cap dances with her in a kitchen, and for most of the internet that was the first look at Dalton Gomez. Seven months later they were engaged, a year after that they were married, and on March 19, 2024, a Los Angeles judge made the divorce final. This page used to promise to explain how they “live together.” Here is the honest version: why they married, and how it ended.
Who Dalton Gomez is
Gomez is a luxury real estate agent in Los Angeles; at the time of the engagement he worked with the Aaron Kirman Group, a firm that sells very expensive houses to very famous people. He was born in August 1995, so he is 31 now; Grande turned 33 in June. He was never a public figure and never tried to become one, which in Grande’s world is practically a superpower.
What I notice, rereading the coverage, is how little he ever said. In five years of headlines there is no Dalton interview, no statement, no podcast. Whatever you think of the marriage, that kind of silence takes discipline.
A lockdown romance that moved fast
According to the AP’s account of the divorce, they began dating in January 2020 and went public about four months later. That was the spring the whole world stayed home, and Grande made the “Stuck with U” video from home too, with Gomez in the final shot.
Then, on December 20, 2020, Grande posted a carousel captioned “forever n then some.” The ring was an oval diamond set next to a pearl. I have always liked that pearl: it looks a little old-fashioned, like something chosen by a person, not a stylist.
Why they married so quickly
Neither of them ever gave an interview about the decision, so anyone who tells you the “reason” is guessing. What the record does show is a couple who had spent most of a year in the same house and liked it. They married on May 15, 2021, at Grande’s home in Montecito, California. Her representative described it to People as “tiny and intimate — less than 20 people.” She posted the photos on May 26 with the caption “5.15.21.”
The dress was custom Vera Wang, a silk charmeuse column with a plunging back, worn with a shoulder-length bubble veil and a satin bow; Vogue ran the photos by Stefan Kohli. My take: it was a wedding designed to be remembered by the people in the room, not by the rest of us. Small weddings are not proof of anything, but this one fit the couple.
What married life looked like from outside
Not much, and that was the point. Grande posted him on birthdays and holidays: a kitchen hug, a wedding kiss with the dog in the frame, a few Polaroids. The rest of the time the marriage lived off the grid, which made it very hard for fans and very easy for tabloids to fill the gap.
How it ended
The divorce filing tells the story in dates. Grande filed in Los Angeles on September 18, 2023, citing irreconcilable differences, and listed February 20, 2023, as the date of separation. They had reached an agreement by October; the judgment became final on March 19, 2024, after the six-month waiting period. Under the settlement, she paid him a one-time $1.25 million with no future spousal support, they split the proceeds from their Los Angeles home, and she covered up to $25,000 of his legal fees. There were no children, and the AP reported there was no prenup.
Grande never discussed the divorce directly, but she talked about the album that came out of that period, eternal sunshine, on the Zach Sang Show in February 2024: “Even at my most heartbroken or my most pained moments of the past few years, there was so much kindness, there was so much love, there was so much honesty and transparency and respect.” And: “It wasn’t like a ‘F**k you’ at all, or ever.” I believe her, mostly because the paperwork reads the same way: quick, quiet, no public fight.
Where they are in 2026
Gomez has been with actress Maika Monroe since at least 2024; she made it Instagram-official that June, and in January 2026 she posted photos of the two of them on a group trip to Brazil. Grande dated her Wicked co-star Ethan Slater from 2023. In June 2026 People, Page Six and TMZ reported, citing unnamed sources, that they had quietly broken up months earlier; neither of them has confirmed it. She spent the summer on the Eternal Sunshine Tour and released her eighth album, petal, on July 31. If you came for the new look, we wrote about what fans have been saying about it.
My take
The real reason this marriage still gets searched is that it looked so simple: a kitchen, a cap, a pearl. It turned out to be a normal marriage, and normal marriages sometimes end. What I keep coming back to is how they ended it: no statements, no leaks with names attached, an agreement reached about a month after the filing. Ten seconds in a music video, three years of marriage, and a quiet exit. People with much less fame manage it worse.
Sources
- Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber: “Stuck with U,” official video (ArianaGrandeVevo, May 2020)
- Ariana Grande on Instagram (@arianagrande)
- Malay Mail / Reuters: Ariana Grande announces engagement (December 22, 2020)
- The Star: Ariana Grande shares photos of her secret home wedding (May 27, 2021)
- Business Insider: Grande wore a custom Vera Wang gown (May 2021)
- Cox Media Group: Ariana Grande finalizes divorce, will pay Dalton Gomez $1.25M (March 19, 2024)
- Spectrum News / AP: Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez are officially divorced (March 19, 2024)
- ET: Ariana Grande on the message behind her heartbreak songs, from the Zach Sang Show (February 27, 2024)
- Just Jared: Maika Monroe shares Brazil vacation photos with Dalton Gomez (January 12, 2026)
- UPI: Reports say Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater split up (June 9, 2026)
- Nylon: Ariana Grande’s wedding dress by Vera Wang (May 2021)
- Variety: Ariana Grande announces new album “petal” (April 2026)
