90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?starMichael Ilesanmimight just be the greatest conman reality TV has ever seenwith the way he trickedAngela Deemfor seven years.Michael from Nigeria is a 34-year-old manwho first starred in90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Daysseason 2 with Angela from Georgia. The grandmother of six had previously been married to a man for three years and had two grown daughters with him.Angela’s first marriage to her first lovewas a very bad experience. She never wanted to get married again, but everything changed when Michael came along.
Angela now wants to get her second marriage annulled after three years. She planned to originally bring Michael to the U.S. on a K-1 visa, but after Michael faced rejection, a spousal visa helped him come to America in December 2023.Michael lived in Hazlehurstfor two months, during which he claims to have been allegedly abused by Angela. He left her without telling her and Angela thought Michael was missing, but he’d just moved to Texas to start over. Michael now wants a divorce and expects Angela to support him for the rest of his life.
10Michael Targeted Angela Deem On Facebook
Michael Saw That Angela Was Older & Vulnerable
Michael and Angela met on Facebook in 2017. Their romance started with Michael sending Angela a friend request. Michael never told his side of the story, about how he’d come across Angela’s profile and whether she was in his friend suggestions on the website. However, Angela had noticed that Michaelhad several other American women on his friend list.Michael could have actively been trying to find profiles of elderly American women he thought he could date and find a way to come to the U.S. to marry them. He even sent Angela a generic message.
“Hello. You look pretty today, good morning.”
Michael had told Angela she looked pretty and wished her good morning. It was obvious that Angela was starved for attention. She didn’t know who he was, but she thought his profile picture looked “cute.” The picture in question was of a shirtless Michael with his shirt casually thrown over his shoulder and he had his headphones in. The picture didn’t look like it was of a 30-year-old Michael. He looked much younger in it. However,he’d known just how to get Angela to fall for him.
9Michael Gaslighted Angela About Other Women
Michael Lied To Angela About How He Knew These Women
Michael got away with doing a lot of shady things by maintaining a “poor me” expression on his face. Angela caught him being suspicious several times and yelled at him about it, but she also believed all the explanations he had. Michael was gaslighting Angela from the start with his excuses. More recently, he tried to tell her that his “Paradise Men” WhatsApp group was for men like him who were waiting for their visas to be approved. However,he also had met a woman named Cheetah through the group, so he was certainly lying.
Michael was also caught in a lie when he revealed why he was chatting with Cheetah. He told two different stories on two occasions. When Angela’s Private Detective questioned him, he said Cheetah had contacted her because her mother was applying for a K-1 visa. Angelasaid that she’d never heard about Cheetah’s mother. “It was her husband you said,” Angela added. Interestingly, it does appear Michael is lying about Cheetah since during hisETinterview, he said that Cheetah “is a member of the group. She has a husband here. She stays here, that’s it.”
8Scammer Michael Asked Angela For Money
Michael Lived A Luxurious Life In Lagos By Taking Money From Angela
It is believed that Angela had made Michael quit his job and sit at home so he could keep an eye on him. She didn’t want Michael talking to other women and making him stay at home was a tactic she’d figured would stop him from straying. Angela and Michael made money from the show, along withplatforms like Cameo and social media brand endorsements.Angela seemed to be giving Michael his share and that was their source of income. However, greedy Michael wanted more. He wanted affairs on the side and a whole lot of money.
In90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?Michael made an Instagram account which he used to chat with random women. Angela also didn’t like Michael using social media because of his unfaithfulness. He tried convincing her that he was using Instagram to become an influencer and make extra money. When Angela still didn’t listen, Michael tried tomake her give him $5000 to delete IG. It was just one instance of Michael demanding money from Angela that was caught on camera. He could have been blackmailing her every time he was caught doing something she didn’t approve of.
7Michael Always Acted Like A Victim
Michael Successfully Made Angela The Villain In Everyone’s Eyes
Angela’s abuse towards Michael cannot be overlooked. She has treated him horribly for years and that hasn’t gone unnoticed by viewers. However, Michael also used Angela’s anger to his advantage. There were times when he seemed to be provoking Angela. He knew exactly how to push her buttons, especially when they were on camera. He was scamming Angela and was faking her love for him, althoughit didn’t mean it was okay for her to be abusive. Still, Michael knew Angela was vulnerable. She was not going to let years of being in a relationship with him on TV go to waste.
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Angela was going to bring Michael to the U.S. no matter how much she screamed at him, and he knew it. It’s not true that Michael scammed Angela only because she was abusive towards him. He has money and fame on his mind. He’s been desperate to find a source of income that keeps him in the limelight, and he will do everything in his might to get there.
Michael won’t be able to keep up with the act for long. He only needs to find a new vulnerable person who’ll fall for his charm and be his next victim.
6Michael Kept The Romance Act Up For Way Too Long
Michael Could Have Walked Away Anytime He Wanted
Michael made it look like he cared about Angela, but he had not even bothered to check on her while she recovered from a life-threatening surgery in90 Day Fiancé’s Happily Ever After?season 7.Angela wanted to lose weight for Michael. It was never about her wanting to look good for herself. She wanted to look younger, so Michael wouldn’t leave her for a younger American woman when he got there. She used Botox and other cosmetic treatments to please him, but Michael never cared. He was the one not giving her the attention that she wanted.
When Angela told Michael that her weight loss procedure involved breast reduction, he declared he was against it. Michael didn’t want Angela to change perhaps the only thing about her that he liked. Angela had to get breast implants to keep Michael happy. He was always overlooking her efforts to save the marriage.Angela was trying her best to keep Michael satisfiedand not stray. However, her vicious personality ended up masking all of Michael’s negative traits.
5Michael Wanted Angela To Tote A Baby
He Pushed Angela Into Asking Her Daughter Skyla Deem To Carry His Baby
Michael had wanted a baby from Angela despite knowing it was impossible for her due to her age. He blamed it on his family, saying they wanted to see him having kids of his own and Angela had no option but to ask her daughter Skyla Deem if she could carry Michael’s child for her. Skyla put her foot down andMichael suggested he marry a younger woman who could give him a baby.Michael was threatening Angela and pushing her to give him a kid. He’d even wanted her to consider IVF.
Michael was unhappy when Angela decided to get bariatric surgery instead of undergoing IVF treatment. Michael’s visa wasn’t getting approved, and he perhaps thought that if Angela had his baby, there was no chance she would pull the visa if they had a fallout, no matter how long it took. Having a baby with Angela would have given him hope that she would keep trying to bring him to America, come what may. Now that Angela is his past,Michael is free to have a baby with anyonehe chooses to date.
4Michael Kept Trying To Use Social Media
Angela only allowed Michael to access Instagram to her account. Her @deemangela page even had a profile photo of both of them, and it was supposed to be a joint couples account. Whenever Michael tried to make an Instagram, Angela made him delete it or worse, even asked fans to report it as fake. The pages seemed to belong to Michael because, in 2019, Angela asked fans toreport a page @babakeke26_ claiming it was someone impersonating him. Michael created several accounts and tried convincing Angela to let him use social media.
Still, Angela knew that Michael wanted it to connect with other women. When he was caught cheating on her in 2022, Michael said he was flirting with the woman just for fun, out of boredom. He said he wanted to feel happy and that the flirting meant nothing. It was an excuse any cheater would have given to manipulate their partner andAngela kept believing Michael would change. He could have kept in touch with some of his Instagram friends who he’s now free to mingle with in the U.S.
3Michael’s Started Humiliating Angela In America
Michael Wants Angela To Burn With Jealousy
Michael started taking his revenge on Angela once he came to America. He stayed with her only until they could film the Tell All, and then it was time for him to run and never look back. Michael used the Tell All to his advantage by showing the world how Angela treated him. Angela thought she could expose Michael’s true colors by hiring a PI, but it ended up working in Michael’s favor. The detective proved Michael was not cheating or scamming Angela, but theonly evidence was Michael’s “social media” mentionsfrom two years.
It’s not like he had accessed Michael’s phone or WhatsApp to find out what he was chatting about with his “Paradise Men” friends orwhere his “Piggy Bank” money was going.The detective cleared Michael’s name and Michael was able to sway more of the audience to support him along with almost all cast members.
2Michael Is A Green Card Hunter
He Just Needed Angela To Get To America
Michael had been searching for life insurance policies for elderly people on his phone. He claimed it was just an ad on the browser but only a previous search for the topic could have thrown a relevant ad at Michael. He could never really tell why he was looking up insurance details and also why he had photos of Angela’s tax documents on his phone which he was seemingly sending someone else. Michael knew exactly what he was doing,but being an expert gas lighter, he succeeded with his plans.
If not Angela, it could have been some other American woman who could have become his prey. If not for Angela, Michael could never have been a part of90 Day Fiancé. Michael might not have even wanted fame at the start, since going on the show was Angela’s idea. However, it was thanks to Angela that Michael now had both a green card and reality TV fame.
1Michael Is Stealing Angela’s Fans With His GoFundMe
Will Michael Misuse The Hard Earned Money Fans Are Sending Him?
Angela filed for an annulment in June 2024. Michael launched his GoFundMe in August 2024. He said he needed money for legal expenses, but why could Michael have started his fundraiser in June itself? Michaelwas waiting to see if the Tell All would make him look helpless.As soon as Michael realized that Angela looked like a monster at the reunion, he knew that the fundraiser would fetch him thousands of dollars from millions of fans worldwide.
Michael had even predicted that he would be able to collect over $50,000. That’s what he had set his goal to. When he noticed fans discussing why he needed so much money, Michael changed the amount needed to $25,000. Michael is a greedy man. If he still doesn’t get what he wants after his relationship with Angela is finally over, the90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?star will soon reveal some other crooked way to hustle in the U.S.
90 Day Fiancé: Before The 90 Daysairs Sundays at 8 p.m. EDT on TLC.
90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?
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90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? follows the lives of couples from the original 90 Day Fiancé series as they navigate married life. The show explores the challenges, cultural adjustments, and evolving relationships these couples face post-marriage. It provides an in-depth look at how their dynamics change beyond the initial 90-day visa period and continues the narrative of their pursuit of a lasting union.
