divorce
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His marriage to Wendy Neuss, who had been a “Next Generation” producer, in 2000, also ended in divorce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
The 56-year-old bought a £2m Georgian mansion in Llanwenarth, near Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, in November 2025 following his divorce from wife Mindy after 23 years.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
At the time, she was raising seven children -- she later had more -- while going through a divorce.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
After our divorce, he forced the sale of our family home in Florida, which I had paid for during our marriage.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
Rachel’s divorce had not been legally granted at the time of their wedding, so Rachel Robards was still married to her first husband when she married Andrew Jackson, a crime known as bigamy.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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As the journalists finalized their divorces with their ex-spouses in 2023, reports of a budding romance came to the forefront.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Robach and Holmes both finalized their divorces in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
“The battle over embryos is becoming a big problem in divorces now.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
After two humiliating divorces, Opal has made the salvation of her oafish children her primary concern.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
But those were a couple of divorces and a serious illness ago, and the son looking over his shoulder at the mounted snapshots now had little in common with the boy in the pictures.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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She was briefly married to Ralph Head, at age 20, then married and divorced Ventura Huerta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Her father and mother had divorced, but Juan Fernandez’s legend had been fixed — a brawling union leader and New Mexico state legislator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
His entry into politics came at age 17 after his father pushed him to run against his mother Rogeria on the Rio de Janeiro city council, a year after his parents divorced.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Their father and I are divorced, and the divorce was far from amicable.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
When Grub was seven years old, Hugo and I separated and divorced.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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The couple were married at the time of the alleged offences before separating in 2018 and divorcing in 2021.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Remini and her former husband, Angelo Pagán, announced back in 2024 that they were divorcing after nearly 30 years together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
May 2021: Bill and Melinda French Gates announce they are divorcing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Keep in mind that divorcing solely for the purpose of qualifying for higher benefits may raise legal concerns if the divorce is not genuine.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
I saw parents announce to their bawling children that they were divorcing.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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