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Father of Padma Lakshmi’s Baby Identified

Former model and Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi gave birth to a daughter last month. She announced her pregnancy back October but declined to publicly identify the child’s father. Lakshmi and the baby, named Krishna, live in New York City. The New York Post now reports that Krishna’s father is Adam Dell, a venture capitalist who [...]
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Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes Split

Award-winning actress Kate Winslet has split from her husband, award-winning film director Sam Mendes. Their representatives issued a statement earlier this week, stating: “Kate and Sam are saddened to announce that they separated earlier this year. The split is entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement. Both parties are fully committed to the future joint [...]
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Shaq Divorce Settles

Basketball superstar Shaquille O’Neal and his estranged wife, Shaunie O’Neal, have reportedly settled their divorce. Shaunie’s divorce attorney, Sorrell Trope, says that the former couple has reached an agreement on all aspects of the split – division of property, child custody and child support. Under the agreement, the Florida courts actually divorce the couple, who lived [...]
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Montel Williams in Custody Fight

Television personality Montel Williams and his ex-wife Grace Morley divorced in 2000, a year after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. They share joint legal custody of their teenaged children – Montel II and Wyntergrace. The kids live with Morley. Morley has asked a Connecticut court to modify the custody order, giving her sole legal custody. [...]
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Allen Iverson’s Wife Files for Divorce

Last week, the Philadelphia 76ers’ Allen Iverson announced he was leaving basketball for the rest of the season to spend time with his sick 4-year-old daughter, Messiah. This week, his wife Tawanna Iverson filed for divorce in Atlanta. The couple has five children together, ranging in age from 15 years to 17 months. They were high [...]
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Singer Anita Baker Avoids Jail in Divorce Case

Singer-songwriter Anita Baker faced a potential stint in jail for contempt over her divorce settlement with ex-husband Walter Bridgforth, Jr. Baker refused to sign documents that could turn over a portion of her music royalties to Bridgforth but ultimately avoided jail after explaining her position to the judge. The family court judge had ordered Baker to [...]
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Barry Bonds Divorce Back On

Baseball slugger Barry Bonds’ wife, Liz Watson Bonds, has filed for divorce. Citing irreconcilable differences, Liz Bonds filed paperwork to end her 12-year marriage this week in Los Angeles. She filed for legal separation in June 2009 but dismissed the case about a month later. She now claims that the date of separation was January 2010. [...]
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Bristol Palin Subpoenas Playgirl Over Levi Johnston Compensation

As we reported a few weeks ago, Bristol Palin, daughter of former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is seeking child support from her ex-boyfriend Levi Johnston, father of one-year-old Tripp. Bristol requested somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,700 a month in temporary and retroactive support, based on her belief that Johnston made in excess [...]
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Mathew Knowles Ordered to Pay Temporary Child Support

Mathew Knowles, father and manager of singer Beyonce Knowles (and father-in-law of rapper Jay-Z), has been ordered to pay Alexsandra Wright $8,200 a month in child support for her son Nixon Wright. Little Nixon was born on February 4, 2010. The child support order is a temporary one though. Earlier this week, a Los Angeles judge [...]
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Flavor Flav Reportedly Owes $65,000 in Child Support

According to court documents, rapper/reality TV star Flavor Flav (real name: William Drayton, Jr.) owes Angie Parker, the mother of three of his kids, almost $65,000 in back child support. Flav has an outstanding balance of $63,458 to the Albany County Child Support collection unit. In July 2008, Parker filed a motion to modify the child [...]
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Prenup Details and Restraining Order in Dennis Hopper Divorce

Actor Dennis Hopper’s prostate cancer certainly hasn’t kept his divorce from getting nasty. Hopper sought (and received) a restraining order against his estranged wife Victoria Duffy this week in a Los Angeles court. Hopper claims that Victoria has “repeatedly subjected [him] to severe emotional distress.” According to Hopper’s doctor, “The presence of his estranged wife [...]
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Jamie Lynn Spears Splits from Baby’s Father

To no one’s surprise, 18-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears has split from Casey Aldridge, with whom she has a 19-month-old daughter, Maddie. Spears, the younger sister of Britney Spears and star of the Nickelodeon show “Zoey 101″, made headlines in 2007 when she announced that she was pregnant at the age of 16. After Maddie was born [...]
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Actress Kate Walsh Finalizes Divorce

Private Practice/Grey’s Anatomy actress Kate Walsh has reportedly settled her divorce from husband Alex Young. Walsh and her divorce attorney Laura Wasser hammered out a settlement, finalizing the divorce which lasted as long as the marriage. The couple married in September 2007 and split in November 2008. According to court documents, Young was awarded $627,000 for his [...]
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Jerry Rice Finally Divorced but Finances Not Settled Yet

Football legend Jerry Rice’s wife Jacqueline Rice filed for divorce in June 2007. The former couple was finally divorced late last month. However, their family court dispute is not yet over. In the two and a half years since the initial divorce filing, the couple has exchanged financial information. They presumably sold their multi-million dollar Northern [...]
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John Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards Separate

Both John Edwards and his wife of 30 plus years Elizabeth Edwards have now confirmed that they are separated. Earlier this month, former North Carolina Senator and vice presidential candidate John Edwards admitted paternity of a child by another woman. The Edwards apparently separated prior to that announcement. “It is an extraordinarily sad moment, but I [...]
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