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Al Gore and Tipper Gore Separate After 40 Years of Marriage

Together since they were high school students in the ’60s, former Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper Gore have announced that they are separating. The announcement came days after their 40th wedding anniversary. Generally viewed as an affectionate and modern married couple, the announcement seemed to shock the media and the Gores’ friends. [...]
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Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon Files for Divorce

Actress Garcelle Beauvais has filed for divorce from her husband of nine years, Mike Nilon in Los Angeles.  The filing comes as no surprise after recent news of his infidelities. Back in April, Beauvais accused Nilon of cheating in an email she sent to his colleagues at the Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Nilon is a [...]
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TV Producer Seeks to Regain Custody of Kids After Wife’s Murder

The body of Monica Beresford-Redman was discovered on April 8 in a sewer at the Moon Palace Resort in Cancun where she had been staying with her husband, television producer Bruce Beresford-Redman and their two children. Bruce had reported her missing two days before. Mexican authorities identified Bruce as a “person of interest” in the [...]
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Former Hollywood Power Broker Mike Ovitz and Wife Split

The New York Post is reporting that Michael Ovitz, former head of Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and former Disney president, has split from his longtime wife Judy Reich. The couple has been together for over 40 years, since their days as students at UCLA. They have three grown children. Ovitz and four [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Bristol Palin Seeks Child Support from Levi Johnston

Bristol Palin, the eighteen-year-old daughter of the former Governor of Alaska and former Republican Vice Presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, has now officially requested child support from her child’s father, Levi Johnston. According court documents filed in Anchorage, Alaska, Bristol requests child support in the amount of $1,750 per month from Johnston, the father of one-year-old, [...]
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John Edwards Admits Paternity of Mistress’s Baby

Former senator, vice-presidential candidate, and presidential candidate John Edwards on Thursday admitted paternity of a daughter with former mistress Rielle Hunter, contradicting multiple previous denials. “I am Quinn’s father,” Edwards said in a statement. “I will do everything in my power to provide her with the love and support she deserves…. It was wrong for [...]
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South Carolina Gov. Sanford’s Wife Files for Divorce

South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford filed for divorce last week after several attempts at reconciling with her estranged husband, Governor Mark Sanford. Sanford made the news six months ago after he disappeared and was ultimately discovered returning from a rendezvous in Argentina with a mistress. The Sanfords have four sons and have been married [...]
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Frank & Jamie McCourt, L.A. Dodgers’ Owners, Divorcing

Major league baseball – fresh on the heels of the divorce of the owner of the San Diego Padres – is once again in play in a California divorce court. Frank McCourt, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ owner, and his wife, Jamie McCourt, formerly the team’s CEO, are divorcing. The McCourts have been married since 1979 [...]
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Hugh Hefner Divorcing After 11 Year Separation

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner filed for divorce from his wife, former Playmate Kimberly Conrad, last Friday in Los Angeles. They’ve been married since July 1989 but separated since 1998. Since the separation, Conrad and the couple’s two sons lived in a home next door to the famed Playboy Mansion in L.A. Hefner says he paid [...]
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Former Congressman's Wife Sues His Mistress for Alienation of Affection

Leisha Pickering, estranged wife of former U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering, has filed a lawsuit in Mississippi against her husband’s alleged mistress. The suit seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages against Elizabeth Creekmore Byrd for alienation of affection. The entire Complaint is available at TPM – Talking Points Memo. The lawsuit says Chip Pickering and Creekmore [...]
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Estee Lauder CEO Splits with Wife of 22 Years

Estée Lauder CEO/president William Lauder and his wife of 22 years, Karen Lauder, announced their separation this week. The couple has two daughters. William Lauder, though, has a two-year-old daughter named Djuna with another woman, Taylor Stein. This situation has caused Lauder to rack up some undoubtedly large legal bills. Apparently William Lauder and Stein [...]
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Supermodel and Billionaire in Ugly Split

Former Victoria’s Secret supermodel Stephanie Seymour and her billionaire husband Peter Brant are enmeshed in an increasingly ugly divorce in Connecticut. Seymour filed for divorce in March, seeking custody of the couple’s three children (ages 15, 12 and 4), alimony and an equitable division of their marital assets. Brant is the CEO of White Birch [...]
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Italian Prime Minister Enmeshed in Public Divorce

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s wife announced this week that she is seeking a divorce from her husband of almost 20 years. Veronica Lario Berlusconi told the media that she was “forced to take this step. I don’t want to add anything else.” Last week, Veronica complained that her husband’s political party chose female candidates [...]
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