January 23, (THEWILL) – He is a native of Benin City in Edo State and CEO of Simcol Petroleum Limited Company, as well as a relative of Aisha Guobadia, a former gold merchant and socialite jailed in the United Kingdom for some time before returning to Nigeria in 2000.  He is Simon Guobadia and is currently dating Porsha Williams, a member of the cast of Real Housewives of Atlanta.
Simon and Porsha are not only dating, they are reportedly engaged as she has been flaunting a bejeweled ring for all to see. So in love are the two, or so it seems on Simon’s part, that he lavishes attention and expensive gifts on the mother of one. He recently bought himself a Rolls Royce and got a matching one for her as well. To prove that he is completely smitten with her, the 57-year-old got his very first tattoo, which spells out her first name in cursive script on his upper back.
Since they started dating, both lovers have been suffocating their social media fans with loved up photos of themselves with captions reiterating their love for each other. Simon has five children: Christian, Nicole, Benjamin, Quentin and Ximena, from two of his previous three marriages. His first marriage was with Karron English and it lasted 20 years. The second marriage was with Connie Andrade-Rivera. His last marriage to a much younger lady, Falynn, which was contracted in 2019 and ended in 2021, didn’t produce any child. Simon, who graduated from Columbia University, lives in Georgia.
On the other hand, 40-year-old Porsha used to be engaged to a certain Dennis Mckenly, an African-American whom she bore a daughter, but ended their relationship, perhaps for not being such a lavish spender like some of the African men she had dated in the past.
Porsha was once involved with oil baron, Jide Omokare, who has since gone into oblivion, following his fraud case with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. At another time, she was involved with Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue jnr, the son of a former President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
Ivory Ukonu is a versatile journalist with many years of experience, with entertainment and society reporting as her area of core competence.
