Peter Cook and Christie Brinkley in happier times
A stunning Christie Brinkley attends the Metropolitan Opera opening
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Peter Cook and Christie Brinkley in happier times
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A stunning Christie Brinkley attends the Metropolitan Opera opening
January 7, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Though they reached a divorce settlement last July, problems between Christie Brinkley and her ex, Peter Cook, are heating up again legally.
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January 5, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
“Medium” star Patricia Arquette has filed for divorce from husband Thomas Jane, a rep for the star confirmed to Access Hollywood.
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December 24, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
The break-ups of Madonna and Guy Ritchie, and Paul McCartney and Heather Mills resulted in two of the most explosive celebrity divorces of the year.
But what about the most expensive? Or surprising?
As we near the end of ’08, it’s time to take a look back at the biggest break-ups of 2008.
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December 22, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
No doubt about it, 2008 was a big year for celebrity divorces – Madonna, Hulk Hogan, Alex Rodriguez, Bill Murray, Paul McCartney, Robin Williams, Star Jones, and Kate Walsh were just some of the stars that were engaged in divorce proceedings over the last 12 months. But though she admits marriage can be tough, Courteney Cox has no plans to give up on her relationship with husband David Arquette.
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December 17, 2008
LONDON, U.K. --
Madonna and Guy Ritchie have issued a statement saying both are happy with the financial agreement reached in their divorce — but they aren’t telling you or anyone else about thedetails.
On Monday, Madonna spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg told The Associated Press in an e-mail that Madonna would pay Ritchie a settlement in the range of 50 million to 60 million pounds (about $76 million to $92 million).
But the divorcing couple said Wednesday that Rosenberg’s statement contained inaccurate information about the financial settlement.
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December 16, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Madonna’s split with film director Guy Ritchie has become one of the most costly celebrity divorces of all time.
Earlier this week, Madonna’s longtime publicist, Liz Rosenberg, revealed to the Associated Press that Madonna was to give Ritchie between 50 and 60 million pounds ($76 million to $92 million) as part of their divorce agreement, with the figure including the value of the couple’s country home, Ashcombe.
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December 15, 2008
LONDON, U.K. --
Madonna’s spokeswoman says the singer has settled with ex-husband Guy Ritchie for at least 50 million pounds ($76 million).
Liz Rosenberg told The Associated Press on Monday that Madonna has given Ritchie between 50 and 60 million pounds ($76 million to $92 million) as part of their divorce agreement.
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December 15, 2008
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On the same day Madonna’s rep announced that the pop star had settled her divorce with Guy Ritchie for at least 50 million pounds ($76 million), a report surfaced from London’s Daily Mail that Madonna was planning on spending the holidays with Guy and their three children.
However, her rep told Access Hollywood that it’s unlikely Madonna and Guy would be celebrating the holidays together.
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December 14, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Madonna and Guy Ritchie will celebrate Christmas with their children, despite their recent divorce, the Daily Mail reported.
According to the British newspaper, Madonna will arrive in the U.K. with children Lourdes, Rocco and David on December 23 and stay for Christmas at Guy’s Ashcombe House estate.
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December 12, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Kate Walsh’s husband of just over a year, movie executive Alex Young, has filed for divorce.
According to the court paperwork filed by attorneys for Young in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by Access Hollywood, the couple separated on November 22, 2008, just one year and two months into the marriage
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December 6, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Just weeks after the announcement of former “Full House” star Jodie Sweetin’s divorce from husband Cody Herpin, court papers obtained by Access Hollywood have unveiled what seems to be a turbulent union.
“Our marriage has been rocky,” Jodie stated in divorce documents filed in Orange County Superior Court on November 19. According to the documents, the couple separated on November 18. They were married over a year earlier, on July 14, 2007.
But it wasn’t just the relationship that had problems, she asserted.
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December 5, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Pamela Bach is in need of a new home for the holidays.
On Thursday, a judge kicked David Hasselhoff’s ex-wife out of the actor’s house, Access Hollywood has confirmed.
Hasselhoff had agreed to let Bach live in the house temporarily while the home was up for sale. However, a Los Angeles Superior Court has ruled Bach must leave the residence.
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December 3, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Britney Spears has dominated the media recently with the release of her new album, “Circus,” her MTV documentary, “Britney: For The Record,” and her 27th birthday on Tuesday and now her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, is telling his side of the story.
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December 2, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Plus, A “Twilight” star and a Jonas squeeze are spotted out. And, are Madonna & A-Rod house hunting?
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December 1, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
Ivana Trump has issued a statement confirming reports of marital discord with Italian entrepreneur Rossano Rubicondi.
Trump, who married Rubicondi in April, says she filed a legal separation agreement three months ago. Trump says she kept quiet about it because she didn’t want to ruin Rubicondi’s chances as acontestant on the Italian edition of the reality TV show “Survivor.”
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December 1, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
“CSI” star Marg Helgenberger and her husband, actor Alan Rosenberg, have split after nearly two decades of marriage, Access Hollywood has confirmed.
A rep for the actress confirmed the news to Access.
“After 19 years of marriage, Marg and Alan have decided to take some time apart. They love and respect each other and remain committed to their family,” the rep said.
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November 26, 2008
MIAMI, Florida --
The courts have denied a request made by Linda Hogan’s boyfriend, who was seeking a restraining order against Linda’s estranged husband, Hulk Hogan, Access Hollywood has learned.
In court papers obtained by Access, Charley Hill, 20, claims Hulk (whose real name is Terry Bollea) has been following and threatening him.
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November 25, 2008
NEW YORK, NY --
Madonna was finally granted a preliminary divorce from Guy Ritchie last Friday, and now Access Hollywood breaks the news that Madonna and New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez will spend their first Thanksgiving together at Rodriguez’s place in New York.
A-Rod will be hosting a dinner in his Manhattan apartment for Madonna, and her kids, Lourdes, Rocco and David, and their mutual manager, Guy Oseary.
Cynthia Rodriguez, who filed for divorce in July after more than five years of marriage to A-Rod, wrote an email to a close friend detailing A-Rod’s and Madonna’s holiday plans.
“My 6-foot-3, 220-pound soul-less, soon-to-be ex-husband is abandoning his kids on Thanksgiving to be with Madonna… She called and he ran on her command back to New York City . . . Gross!” Cynthia wrote.
More details… after the jump!
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November 24, 2008
LONDON, U.K. --
Madonna’s marital breakup is tough, but she says she’s grateful that her heavy workload “provides a distraction that keeps me going.”
“I’m sad about my personal life, but I feel very blessed and very lucky that I have the opportunity to do what I do in my professional life,” Madonna said in an interview Sunday. “Itwould be horrible if I was just thinking about getting a divorce and had nothing to do.”
Access the Full StoryNovember 20, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Britney Spears is craving more freedom — and less of the “control” that’s stabilized her personal life and reinvigorated her career over the last several months.
In an upcoming behind-the-scenes documentary, the 26-year-old pop star says: “If I wasn’t under the restraints that I’m under right now, with all the lawyers and doctors and people analyzing me every day and all that kind of stuff … I’d feel so liberated, and feel like myself.”
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November 21, 2008
LONDON, U.K. --
The show-business marriage that began in a Scottish castle came to an end in a drab London courtroom Friday as Madonna and Guy Ritchie were granted a preliminary decree of divorce.
Papers released by the court said Madonna petitioned for divorce on the basis of Ritchie’s “unreasonable behavior,” but did not elaborate.
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November 21, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Former “Full House” star Jodie Sweetin is splitting from her husband, according to People.
Sweetin, who played middle child Stephanie Tanner on the hit TV series, filed for legal separation from Cody Herpin after 16 months of marriage.
The couple welcomed their first child, daughter Zoie, back in April.
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November 20, 2008
LONDON, U.K. --
A judge will likely grant Madonna and Guy Ritchie an initial divorce decree on Friday, according to the schedule for London’s High Court.
The court lists “Ciccone M L v Ritchie G S” as one of 17 cases for “matrimonial and civil partnership causes for pronouncement of decree.”
That means a judge is to grant the couple a preliminary divorce decree, or decree nisi.
After six weeks and a day, the couple will probably be granted a decree absolute and the divorce will become final.
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November 17, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Plus, Travis Barker does his first interview since his plane crash. Josh Harnett is headed to Africa. And, Reese Witherspoon doesn’t not have marriage on the mind.
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October 24, 2008
MIAMI, Fla. --
Alex Rodriguez has put his Miami home on the market.
According to the real estate listing, the baseball superstar is asking $14.8 million for the 8,310 square foot home he shared with now-estranged wife Cynthia, and their daughters, Ella and Natasha.
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October 24, 2008
LONDON, England --
Guy Ritchie is in the midst of a divorce with Madonna, but it hasn’t stopped him from enjoying a night out with friends.
The film director went to the White Cube Gallery in London for Sam Taylor Wood’s new exhibition ‘Yes I No’, with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law Thursday night, People reports.
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October 23, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
David Duchovny is suing U.K. newspaper the Daily Mail over reports of an alleged affair between the actor and a tennis instructor, Access Hollywood has learned.
In a story published Oct. 18, the paper alleged that instructor Edit Pakay had a “full-blown sexual affair” with the “Californication” star, who recently announced his separation from wife Tea Leoni.
In documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by Access, Duchovny has sued the Daily Mail for defamation and false light invasion of privacy, and calls for a jury trial.
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October 21, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Court documents show that entertainment mogul Sumner Redstone has filed for divorce from his wife of five years.
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October 21, 2008
NEW YORK, NY --
Trudie Styler has spoken out for the first time about the split between her friends, Madonna and Guy Ritchie.
“I love them both,” Trudie told Access Hollywood Monday night at the Whitney Museum of America Art’s Studio Party in celebration with Versace, where her husband, Sting, was performing. “They’re both dear friends of mine and all good things sometimes come to an end.”
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October 17, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
The Gyllenhaal parents are splitting up.
Naomi Foner has filed for divorce from Stephen Gyllenhaal, Access Hollywood has learned.
The pair are the parents of Hollywood stars Jake and Maggie.
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October 20, 2008
MCHINJI, Malawi --
The fallout from Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s divorce has reportedly reached Malawi.
“I am still a poor farmer with nothing to offer, but maybe he would be better off back with us,” Yohane Banda, the biological father of Madonna’s adoptive son, David, told The Sun upon hearing the divorce news. “This is a new and terrible thing to happen to him.”
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October 16, 2008
LONDON, U.K. --
Guy Ritchie and Madonna’s divorce announcement may have shocked the world, but a friend of the “RocknRolla” director told People he’s “doing fine.”
“[The divorce] is news to you and everyone else, but for Guy this has been a long time coming,” the friend told the mag. “I think he’s sort of relieved that it’s all out there. He doesn’t have to fake it anymore.”
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October 18, 2008
LONDON, U.K. --
Guy Ritchie and Madonna have settled their divorce, according to the U.K. publication, The Sun.
The “RocknRolla” director will reportedly walk away with assets totaling around $60 million, including a 1,200-acre country estate, a London pub, and a cash settlement.
Madonna will hold on to her New York and Los Angeles homes and most of her considerable fortune, The Sun reported.
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October 16, 2008
BOSTON, Mass. --
The usual outspoken Madonna kept to the script Wednesday night when her “Sticky & Sweet” world tour landed in Boston just hours after announcing her plans to divorce husband Guy Ritchie.
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October 16, 2008
NEW YORK, NY --
Trainer Carlos Leon has revealed he learned his ex, Madonna, and her husband, Guy Ritchie, were divorcing at the same time as everyone else did — earlier today.
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October 15, 2008
LONDON, England --
Madonna and Guy Ritchie are divorcing, a rep for the singer confirmed to Access Hollywood.
The couple will end their marriage after almost eight years.
British publications The Sun and The Daily Mail first reported news of the split on Wednesday.
The Sun claimed that Madonna and Guy “can’t bear to live with the pretence any longer,” also citing Madonna’s desire to adopt another child and the amount of time their careers consume as factors that eroded the marriage.
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October 11, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
Christie Brinkley has fired back after ex-husband Peter Cook appeared on “20/20” with Barbara Walters that aired on Friday, allegedly breaking the terms of their divorce.
“Christie Brinkley initially sought to settle this matter privately,” Robert Stephan Cohen, Christie’s attorney, told Access Hollywood in a statement. “Mr. Cook has chosen to breach the confidentiality agreement in the divorce settlement, a provision agreed upon in court to protect the children and allow them to put this ordeal behind them.”
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October 9, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Lawyers for Christie Brinkley hit a Suffolk County court yesterday, requesting a temporary restraining order against the supermodel’s ex husband, Peter Cook.
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October 8, 2008
NEW YORK, NY --
Architect Peter Cook is hoping to set the record straight about his split with supermodel Christie Brinkley.
Cook, who engaged in a very public divorce and child custody battle with Brinkley over the summer — before the couple settled, sat down for a new interview with “20/20” host Barbara Walters in an attempt to clear the air.
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September 29, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Exes Dennis Quaid & Meg Ryan face off in a war of words about their marriage and alleged infidelity. Meg is saying she wasn’t the only one in the relationship to stray — and Dennis responds!
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September 23, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
When Meg Ryan and now ex-husband Dennis Quaid separated in 2000 amid her high-profile affair with Russell Crowe, the beloved actress went from America’s Sweetheart to self-described “scarlet woman.”
But in a new interview in the October issue of InStyle, Meg says it wasn’t her fault.
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September 19, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and wife Cynthia have settled their multimillion-dollar divorce case, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.
“Cynthia and Alex Rodriguez have amicably resolved their dissolution of marriage proceedings,” the player’s lawyer, Alan Kluger, said on the newspaper’s Web site.
“They deliberately engaged in a private negotiation. This was and remains a personal family matter for both of them.”
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September 10, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Former “View” co-host Star Jones and her ex-husband, Al Reynolds, have finalized their divorce, Access Hollywood has learned.
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September 5, 2008
CLEARWATER, FL --
Hulk Hogan and his estranged wife are wrangling over how much money the celebrity wrestler is worth.
According to financial affidavits filed in divorce court near Tampa, Florida, Hogan claims his net worth is $32 million; his wife claims it’s $26.7 million.
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August 19, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
“Saturday Night Live” alumni Chris Kattan has split with his wife, Sunshine Tutt, after eight weeks of marriage, according to reports.
Kattan and Tutt, a model, are “just separated,” Kattan’s rep, Jill Fritzo told People. The two have “no plans for divorce at this time.”
Access the Full StoryAugust 18, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Britney Spears’ recently resolved custody dispute with ex-husband Kevin Federline wasn’t just messy, it was expensive.
Court documents show legal bills submitted on behalf of two law firms who represented Spears total more than $466,000. That’s on top of the $250,000 the 26-year-old pop singer has agreed to pay Federline’s attorneys.
The largest bill comes from attorney Stacy D. Phillips, who says in court filings that she is owed nearly $407,000 for four months of work. Phillips claims she has written off another $125,000 in fees.
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August 18, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Donnie Wahlberg’s wife has filed for divorce after nearly nine years of marriage, according to court papers obtained by Access Hollywood.
Kim Wahlberg has cited “irreconcilable differences” with the bad boy New Kid on the Block, according to court documents filed on August 13 with the Los Angeles Superior Court. Kim is seeking custody of the couple’s two sons, Alexander, 15, and Elijah, 7.
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August 7, 2008
SAN ANTONIO, Texas --
Dixie Chick Emily Robison and her husband, singer Charlie Robison, have divorced.
The San Antonio Express-News reports that Charlie Robison filed for divorce in January. The couple were at the Bexar County Courthouse on Wednesday when the divorce was finalized.
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August 6, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Days after he was involved in a serious car accident, a friend of “Dark Knight” star Morgan Freeman confirmed to Access Hollywood that the actor is getting a divorce.
Read on for all the details.
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August 1, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Hulk Hogan wraps up Season 2 of NBC’s “American Gladiators” on Monday night — a show which has been a bright spot in Hulk’s otherwise chaotic personal life.
His 24-year marriage to wife Linda is headed for divorce, but now, in a new interview with Access Hollywood’s Maria Menounos, Hulk shows signs of regrets.
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July 31, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez is responding to his wife’s request for a divorce after almost four weeks of remaining silent issue.
In court documents expected to be filed Thursday, the slugger says the marriage is “irretrievably broken,” according to People.
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July 17, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
The battle between Denise Richards and ex-husband Charlie Sheen rages on.
In a surprise move today, Richards and her divorce attorney, Neal Hersh, went into Los Angeles Superior Court for an ex parte hearing.
While Hersh would not disclose the reason for the hearing, he did tell Access Hollywood that it’s a “serious issue involving the children,” referring to Sheen’s and Richards’ daughters, Sam and Lola.
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July 15, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
The wife of Alex Rodriguez wants to know if the New York Yankees star hired private detectives or installed wiretaps to spy on her.
Cynthia Rodriguez’s lawyers demanded evidence of any such surveillance as part of a routine request filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court last week in their divorce case.
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July 13, 2008
LONG ISLAND, New York --
Peter Cook still wants to be friends with ex-wife Christie Brinkley, he told the New York Post.
After five days of divorce court that ended with a surprise settlement, Cook doesn’t seem to have hard feelings for the former supermodel.
“I’ll never regret marrying her,” he said.
July 14, 2008
NEW YORK, NY --
Peter Cook has claimed his relationship with ex Christie Brinkley is “strained,” but will one day mend, in an interview on “Geraldo At Large,” which aired over the weekend.
“[It’s] very strained,” Cook told Craig Rivera during the Fox News Channel program interview “But I think it — with anything, time will heal.”
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