How Many Times Has Zac Brown Been Married? Inside His Relationship History
Zac Brown is hitting small screens as an advisor on Season 28 of The Voice. He’ll make his mentoring debut during the Monday, October 27, episode when the Knockout Rounds begin. Brown will be serving as the advisor for Michael Bublé and Snoop Dogg‘s teams, while Joe Walsh will be working with Reba McEntire and Niall Horan‘s teams.
Over the last few years, Brown has made headlines for his love life as much as he has for his career. Scroll down for everything we know about his marriages, dating history, and more.
How many times has Zac Brown been married?
Brown has been married twice and is currently engaged to be married a third time. His first wife was Shelly Brown, whom he met through a mutual friend and wed in 2006.
After 12 years of marriage, the exes announced their separation in 2018. “We feel blessed to be on such an incredible journey in life and sometimes the journey begins to lead in different directions. It is with deep love and respect that we announce we are separating as a couple,” they said in a joint statement, also adding, “This was a difficult decision, but we’ve done plenty of tough things together and this is our next venture — love, mutual respect, and care for each other are what we are moving forward with. Family comes in all different forms. We would like to ask that rather than commenting or spending any energy towards this, that you take this moment to send love to your family, in honor of ours.”
The following year, the musician told CBS This Morning, “When you live in something long enough that it’s not working anymore, and that the differences that are there are greater, and that it’s healthier to not live in conflict than it is to try to stay. And no matter how many mistakes, or whatever … and she absolutely was the one.”
In 2021, Brown started dating Kelly Yazdi, who was also employed by his company, Zac Brown Collective (ZBC). He proposed the following year, and they tied the knot in August 2023. However, by that December, they had broken up.
“We are in the process of divorce,” they told Billboard. “Our mutual respect for one another remains. We wish each other the best and will always appreciate our time together. As we navigate this personal matter, we simply request privacy during this time.” Things ended up turning contentious after the split (more on that below).
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In July 2025, Brown confirmed his engagement to jewelry designer Kendra Scott. The two were set up by a mutual friend and had made their red carpet debut just two months earlier after several months of secretly dating.
Why did Zac Brown sue ex-wife Kelly Yazdi?
Brown filed a lawsuit against Yazdi in May 2024, asking that she be ordered to take down an Instagram post that he claimed violated a confidentiality agreement she signed when they were together and she was his employee. He also requested that she not make “any defamatory, false, untrue, or otherwise damaging statements regarding … Mr. Brown and his family, and the Zac Brown Band and any of its members or their family members.”
“I took the steps necessary to enforce an agreement between us to maintain personal and business affairs in confidence and to protect my family from online harassment and speculation,” Brown told NBC News. “My only hope is for us to keep private matters private and to move forward with the mutual respect we had agreed to show one another when we parted ways.”
While Brown did not specify the Instagram post he was referring to, People referenced Yazdi’s May 4, 2024, post about “rebirth.” She did not name Brown directly, but wrote, “Overtime it became apparent that he only knew conditional love; his unhealed trauma expressing itself thru his need to tame. Don’t model anymore. Take this picture off your Instagram. Don’t wear that in the house. Don’t post that bikini picture. Don’t post anymore fitness videos. Yes I said you could post that, but now I’m saying take it down. I don’t want other men looking at what is mine. I want to protect you, your body is sacred to me, can’t you see this is because I love you. I don’t want to be with the kind of woman who has to show off her body for attention. I will f**king leave you.”
Yazdi fired back with a response on social media. “No one — not even Zac Brown with all of his money, power, celebrity, and lawyers – may silence my right to freely express myself through art or, although I have to date declined to do so publicly, to speak about the circumstances of our pending divorce,” she began. “I intend to respond swiftly and robustly to his meritless complaint that publication of two poems on my personal social media account divulged any ‘confidential information’ about his business, much less authorizes a court to enjoin me from speaking about matters in my personal life that have nothing to do with my brief former work for the Zac Brown Collective, Inc.”
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She also accused him of releasing a music video that “deliberately mocked our wedding party from only a few months before — including a false and defamatory caricature obviously intended to be me and hurt me.”
A judge denied Brown’s request days later. “Remarkably, Zac’s response to having his motion summarily denied was to issue a press release doubling down on his defamatory attacks on me, accusing me of using the lawsuit he filed against me as an ad hoc press release, and vowing to press his meritless lawsuit forward,” Yazdi wrote. “Because it appears, for now, that Zac intends to do just that, it is important to know that I am not a willing participant in that agenda.”
Brown then filed another lawsuit against Yazdi the following month, in which he asked her to “comply with the confidentiality obligations set forth in her Employee Agreement and her Confidentiality Agreement with ZBC, both dated August 24, 2022,” per In Touch. His request also asked that she return any confidential items in her possession. Us Weekly also reported in August 2024 that Brown accused Yazdi of stealing confidential information from him and refused to return his car after their divorce.
“I chose to countersue Zac and his company ZBC for the music video of his song ‘Beautiful Drug Ft. Avicii Remix’ – I’m doing this because they used the video footage from our private wedding party in Nashville for his music video for commercial gain, in the video they replaced me in the video with a lookalike model who’s seen behaving promiscuously, irresponsibly, unprofessionally, and recklessly,” Yazdi explained, in defense of her own legal filings against her ex.
As the pair’s legal battle continued over the next year, Yazdi seemingly reacted to Brown and Scott’s engagement via another Instagram post in July. “Everyday I wake up to some carefully crafted PR story highlighting the ‘perfect love story’, yet l’m still being buried in legal fees and told that if I even try to tell my side of the story, that somehow I’m in the wrong…” she wrote.
Yazdi received a big win in the legal war in August 2025 when a judge ruled that the confidentiality agreement Yazdi signed was unenforceable, per Whiskey Riff. Yazdi has laid out the timeline on her website.
Does Zac Brown have kids?
Yes, he has five children with Shelly. The exes share teen daughters Justice, Lucy, Georgia, and Joni, as well as a son, Alexander, born in May 2014.
In his CBS This Morning interview, Brown admitted, “We have five amazing, beautiful children together. And that was the reason that we were together.”
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