Famous Celebrity Breakups

Mel Gibson uses racial slur: report

2010-07-01T15:00:13Z

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning director and actor Mel Gibson, who caused a media storm four years ago over an anti-Semitic statement, is again making headlines for using an apparent racial slur in an argument with his ex-girlfriend. Celebrity news websi...

Mel Gibson split from ex-girlfriend turns bitter

2010-06-29T16:45:24Z

Mel Gibson's breakup with Oksana Grigorieva turns bitter, public despite efforts for secrecy

Mel Gibson's breakup from Russian singer Oksana Grigorieva was supposed to be a quiet affair, but a confidential settlement and sealed court case haven't kept the former couple's troubles from hitting the spotlight. The latest flare-up began last week when ...

Sandra Bullock, Jesse James finalize divorce

2010-06-28T18:00:07Z

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock and her estranged husband Jesse James have filed divorce papers in Texas, ending their nearly f...

Today in History

2010-06-06T21:15:53Z

Today is Monday, June 7, the 158th day of 2010. There are 207 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for American independence from Britain. On this date: In 1753, Britain's Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock has filed for divorce from husband Jesse James after a string of lurid revelations linking the reality TV star to a stripper, People magazine reported Wednesday. In an interview on People's website, Bullock also revealed she had...

Sandra Bullock reveals secret baby, files for divorce

2010-04-28T12:00:13Z

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock on Wednesday revealed she had secretly adopted a baby boy, but was divorcing her cheating husband and would raise the child on her own. In a lengthy interview and photoshoot with Jesse James says loss of adopted son to estranged wife Bullock left 'a huge hole in my heart'

As Sandra Bullock files for divorce from husband Jesse James and adopts son Louis as a single mom, James says he's left with "a huge hole in my heart." But it would be selfish not to let her go, James said in a statement posted Wednesday on On Oprah Winfrey's couch, Grammy-winning singer Melissa Etheridge said her breakup with actress Tammy Lynn Michaels Etheridge was mutual

On Oprah Winfrey's couch, Grammy-winning singer Meliss...

Melissa Etheridge tells Winfrey breakup was mutual

2010-04-23T12:30:48Z

Melissa Etheridge tells Oprah Winfrey breakup was mutual, former partner 'wonderful woman'

Musician Melissa Etheridge says her separation from her partner, actress Tammy Lynn Michaels Etheridge, was mutual. On Friday's episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show,...

The "Oscar curse," real or Hollywood invention?

2010-06-25T15:12:06Z

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - They turn heads on the red carpet, are besieged by the world's top designers, give tearful acceptance speeches, and go home with a little gold man called Oscar. But shortly after many actresses win the movie industry's highest honor, their most important relationships fall apart in what has become known in Hollywood as the "Oscar curse."

Beyonce's mother Tina Knowles files for divorce

2010-04-16T08:17:06Z

Beyonce's mother files for divorce after 29 years of marriage; husband named in paternity suit

Beyonce's mother, Tina Knowles, has filed for divorce from the pop diva's father and manager, Mathew Knowles. Tina Knowles began legal proceedings Nov. 11, according to documents filed with the <...

Attorney: Gosselin divorce could be finalized soon

2010-06-12T15:03:52Z

As 'Jon &amp; Kate' comes to an end, attorney says Gosselin divorce could be finalized soon

Jon Gosselin offered his estranged wife a bouquet of red roses at their divorce arbitration hearing over the weekend. She evidently turned them down. Despite the snub, the marathon session went so well that the feuding stars of "Jon &amp; Kate Plus 8...

Sealed divorce record offers privacy to Jon & Kate

2010-04-16T11:38:55Z

Sealed divorce record in Pa. county miles from their home offers privacy to Jon &amp; Kate

Jon and Kate Gosselin don't live in Montgomery County, Pa. So why are the stars of "Jon &amp; Kate Plus 8" ge...

Sean Penn calls off divorce for a second time

2010-04-16T12:11:01Z

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn has called off his divorce from Robin Wright Penn for a second time, weeks after seeking legal separation. Weeks after saying he and his wife of 13 year...

Sundance doc wants people to know 'it's Cazale'

2010-06-25T15:00:52Z

Streep, Pacino, De Niro, other stars in Sundance doc want people to know 'it's John Cazale'

The most star-studded entry at the Sundance Film Festival is a short documentary about an actor whose intense face is known to just about any serious cinema fan but whose name often escapes them. "I Knew It Was You" features interviews with

Turner says Jane Fonda's faith didn't cause split

2010-04-16T14:34:58Z

In new memoir, Ted Turner says Jane Fonda's faith didn't cause their marriage to end

It wasn't religion that broke up his marriage to Jane Fonda, Ted Turner declares in a new memoir. He says he was "upset" when he discovered his wife's "conversion," but "it wasn't because she had become Christian," the 69-year-old Turner writes in "Call Me Ted," which comes out ...

DVD review: Forgetting Sarah Marshall

2010-06-25T15:10:07Z

Bouffant British rake Russell Brand provides the main reason to watch this workaday non-rom-com from the prolifically unreliable 'team behind Knocked Up '. Brand plays it close to type as bed-hopping rocker Aldous Snow, into whose lanky arms falls the titular glamorous TV presenter (Justin Long and Drew Barrymore have ended their relationship, his publicist says

Justin Long and Drew Barrymore have ended their romance, the actor's publicist said Tuesday. "I just wanted to confirm that, yes, they did break up," Carrie Gordon told The Associated Press in a phone ...

Pop diva Madonna, filmmaker Ritchie to divorce

2010-04-16T12:54:14Z

Pop megastar Madonna and her film director husband Guy Ritchie announced plans to divorce after seven and a half years of marriage, ending months of speculation about their relationship. Madonna, 50, who performed Wednesday night in Boston on her "Sticky and Sweet" world tour, married Ritchie, 40, in December 2000 in a lavish ceremony at a Scottish castle. She had met him at ...

Pop diva Madonna, film-maker Ritchie to divorce

2010-04-16T16:34:52Z

Pop megastar Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie announced plans to divorce on Wednesday after seven and half years of marriage, ending months of speculation about their relationship. Madonna, 50, who performed Wednesday night in Boston on her "Sticky and Sweet" world tour, married Ritchie, 40, in December 2000 in a lavish ceremony at a Scottish castle a...

Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman end romance

2010-04-16T16:50:10Z

Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman have ended their relationship, their publicists say

Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman have broken up, their publicists said Monday. "Jimmy and Sarah have no further comment," Kimmel's spokesman Lewis Kay told Sandra Bullock, arrives at the 82nd Academy Awards in this March 7, 2010 file photo taken in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. In a story posted Wednesday April 28, 2010 on People magazine's website, Sandra Bullock says she has filed for divorce from he...

Travel Trip Musical Instrument Museum

2010-04-23T10:45:33Z

The actual Steinway piano on which John Lennon wrote the song "Imagine" is on display Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix. Lennon purchased the piano on Dec. 15, 1970, soon after the breakup of the

Obit Lark Previn

2010-06-12T09:51:39Z

In this Nov. 2, 2007 file photo, actress and activist Mia Farrow attends the artist-led volunteer committee "Act for Darfur" in London. Lark Previn, a daughter of actress Mia Farrow whose sister Soon-Yi Previn was at the center of Farrow's messy breakup with