Oliver Anthony‘s marriage is reportedly no more, and it seems his divorce may be the one he’s singing about in the new song “Scornful Women.” The track, shared earlier this month, is Anthony’s first new music in 2025 and finds the “Rich Men North of Richmond” singer telling an emotional tale of heartbreak and a woman who wants to take the song’s narrator for everything he’s worth.
Joe Rogan Reveals Oliver Anthony Got Divorced From His Wife
According to Joe Rogan, the split Anthony is singing about on the track may actually be his own, with the podcaster inadvertently revealing on a recent episode of Protect Our Parks that Anthony went through a divorce after he shot to fame in 2023. Speaking to his friends Shane Gillis, Ari Shaffir and Mark Normand, Rogan explained that Anthony had come to him for advice after “Rich Men North of Richmond” went viral and his career began taking off.
“Oliver Anthony has no money, right? He’s poor; he’s selling farm equipment. He puts this song on YouTube, he’s a f—ing superstar, he doesn’t know what to do, he freaks out,” Rogan recalled. “He asks me for advice. I call him on the phone, and we have a conversation for like a f—ing hour. I go, ‘Don’t sign anything with anybody.’”
“He goes, ‘They are offering me seven million dollars.’ I go, ‘No, they are offering to steal money from you for the rest of your life.’ That’s what they are doing,” Rogan continued. “I go, ‘You don’t need them, you have talent.’”
“Scornful Women” Reveal Oliver Anthony’s Nasty Divorce
At that point, he veered into Anthony’s personal life, revealing that his wife divorced him after he found success.
“He starts making millions of dollars, playing arenas. The wife divorces him. She wants everything, she wants EVERYTHING, she wants more than half [and] she wants all the money he’s going to be making in the future because she was with him when he was broke. It’s f—ing crazy,” Rogan said, adding that Anthony is “just tortured. He wants to die. Wants to die — and writes this song.”
The song in question is “Scornful Woman,” in which Anthony seems to indicate that the narrator wasn’t the one to initiate the divorce, as he believed marriage means “til death do us part.” Unfortunately for him, his wife doesn’t feel the same, prompting a contentious split that finds the woman asking for more than half of the man’s money. Of that money, Anthony sings that the woman can have it because the narrator would prefer to go back to having none, mournfully declaring, “She can have all the money… I’d go back to being broke as a joke / If I could just get a break from the pain.”
The rock-tinged track also finds Anthony singing, “Believing ya’s always gonna be right there
/ And now the middle of the day / Is like the middle of the night / And the court says 50/50 / But the math don’t seem right / With a scornful woman,” seemingly further indicating that the woman in the song is after all the money she can get.
Oliver Anthony’s wife, Tiffany, was first mentioned by name in a New York Post article written in 2023. At the time, the couple shared two children and welcomed their youngest, who is reportedly named Amos, soon after in October 2023.
