Celebrity Couples Who Split After Decades Together

The NFL prima and the supermodel touched down successful divorcement court after 13 years of marriage, confirming Oct. 28, 2022, connected their respective societal media platforms that they had finalized the presumption of their split.

"We arrived astatine this determination amicably and with gratitude for the clip we spent together," Tom, who shares kids Benjamin and Vivian with Bündchen, wrote successful his Instagram Story message. "We are blessed with beauteous and fantastic children who volition proceed to beryllium the halfway of our satellite successful each way. We volition proceed to enactment unneurotic arsenic parents to ever guarantee they person the emotion and attraction they deserve."

The Super Bowl MVP—who is besides dada to lad Jack from his erstwhile narration with Bridget Moynahan—noted that helium and Gisele didn't instrumentality their determination lightly.

"Doing truthful is, of course, achy and difficult, similar it is for galore radical who spell done the aforesaid happening each time astir the world," helium continued. "However we privation lone the champion for each different arsenic we prosecute immoderate caller chapters successful our lives that are yet to beryllium written."

Parents to daughters Miley and Noah as good arsenic lad Braison (plus helium adopted her girl Brandi and lad Trace and fathered lad Christopher successful a erstwhile relationship) the mates tied the knot successful 1993.

Meanwhile, Tish accepted Prison Break prima Dominic Purcell's connection successful 2023 and joined him that year.

The parents of 3 and co-founders of the internationally renowned Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation revealed in May 2021 they were splitting up aft 27 years of marriage. A Washington justice finalized their divorce just 3 months later, a ready-to-roll separation contract making the part of their estimated $130 cardinal fortune little onerous.

Both precocious divorced, Sean from Madonna and Robin from Dane Witherspoon, the actors fell successful emotion making the 1990 transgression drama State of Grace. They welcomed girl Dylan successful 1991 and lad Hopper in 1993 and tied the knot successful 1996. They purposely moved to Northern California to rise their kids distant from "the bubble of celebrity," Robin would aboriginal explicate to Vanity Fair, but tumult followed and, aft a fewer mendacious starts, they officially divorced successful 2010.

"I judge we were unneurotic not lone to person our beauteous children but to larn however to love...for the adjacent clip around, the close way," the House of Cards star said. "And then, what I'm looking for successful radical present is kindness."

At the clip she was backmost connected with ex-fiancé Ben Foster, but after that ended she moved connected with Clement Giraudet, marrying him successful 2018. TMZ reported successful September 2022 that Robin filed for divorce, citing July 31, 2022, arsenic their day of separation.

Sean famously dated Charlize Theron for a mates of years and past joined Leila George successful January 2020, but she filed for divorcement successful October 2021.

A powerfulness mates adjacent earlier they were politician and archetypal woman of California, the bodybuilder-turned-actor and renowned writer announced successful May 2011 that they had separated aft 25 years of marriage.

A week later, Arnold came cleanable astir fathering a lad with his family's erstwhile housekeeper of much than 20 years. Joseph Baena enjoys a narration with his dada (as good arsenic an affinity for the value room) and is pursuing his ain vocation arsenic an actor.

The Shriver-Schwarzenegger union, which produced daughters Katherine and Christina as good arsenic sons Patrick and Christopher didn't officially extremity until December 2021, erstwhile The Terminator prima and the writer finalized their divorce.

His-and-hers prison sentences for fraud were not kind to the Real Housewives of New Jersey stars' 20-year marriage. He ended up being deported to Italy after spending 3 years down bars, and they divorced successful September 2020.

"I can't get huffy astatine her," Joe told E! News of his ex a period later. "She's the parent of my 4 daughters and she's taking attraction of them close present due to the fact that evidently I can't. What americium I going to do, person the kids determination present to a state that they don't adjacent cognize the language? That would beryllium a disaster...Thank God they're pugnacious kids, but it's inactive a damn shame. At the extremity of the day, you know, we're doing our best."

Teresa is erstwhile again a joined woman, wedding Luis Ruelas successful August 2022 aft they met during a accidental brushwood astatine the Jersey shore. The bride's four daughters—Gia, Gabriella, Milania and Audriana—were each successful attendance. 

Married for each intents and purposes, if not connected paper, the Oscar winners separated successful the summertime of 2009 aft 23 years together, having met making the rowdy 1988 shot romance Bull Durham.

They stock sons Jack and Miles plus Tim helped rise Susan's girl Eva Amurri.

"People were coming up to maine successful the thoroughfare and saying, 'I cried and cried erstwhile I heard,'" the Thelma & Louise prima told The Telegraph in 2010 aft her breakup with the director. "Well, I was sadder! I didn't deliberation it would ever happen, either. You bring radical into your beingness astatine definite times. Maybe you person a narration to person children and you recognize that it's fulfilled aft that point."

Tim ended up marrying histrion Gratiela Brancusi successful 2017, but it wasn't wide known they'd taken that step until helium filed for divorce successful January 2021.

Though Robyn didn't record for divorcement from the begetter of her 7 children until April 2009, according to Reuters, their separation began just days after his explosive drunk-driving apprehension successful July 2006.

"Throughout our matrimony and separation we person ever strived to support the privateness and integrity of our household and volition proceed to bash so," they said successful a 2009 connection confirming the extremity of their union. At the time, Mel was already expecting a child, his eighth, with then-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva. (He's since go a dada of nine, welcoming lad Lars successful 2017 with Rosalind Ross.)

"It was an unfortunate incident," the Braveheart histrion said connected Variety's Playback podcast successful 2016, referring to his 2006 apprehension and the resulting backlash implicit antisemitic comments helium made to the serviceman that pulled him over. "I was loaded and aggravated and arrested. I was recorded illegally by an unscrupulous constabulary serviceman who was ne'er prosecuted for that crime...So, not fair. I conjecture arsenic who I am, I'm not allowed to person a tense breakdown, ever."

The TLC star's 3rd of 4 sister wives—and parent of six of his 18 children—left the family's Arizona home in November 2021 aft 27 years unneurotic and moved to Utah.

"I started reasoning possibly this isn't moving for me," Christine told People in August 2022. "And past I stopped believing successful polygamy. I realized I didn't truly privation to unrecorded it anymore. I didn't similar sharing a hubby oregon feeling similar I wasn't important."

Kody legally joined archetypal woman Meri Brown successful 1990, aft which sister wives Janelle Brown and Christine joined him successful spiritual matrimony successful 1993 and 1994, respectively. He and Meri divorced and 4th wife Robyn Brown became his legally recognized spouse in 2014. 

"I privation a feline who really loves maine and wants to beryllium with maine intimately," Christine, who wed David Woolley the pursuing year, added. "I volition beryllium a monogamist from present connected out."

Janelle has besides since near the fold, Kody revealing successful the December 2022 reunion peculiar that they were separated. Meri followed suit soon after, with her and Kody announcing successful January 2023 they decided to "permanently terminate" their spiritual marriage.

OK, truthful the mates that gain their archetypal cardinal together don't necessarily enactment together.

News of the Amazon founder and sometimes-richest-man-in-the-world's divorcement from his woman of 25 years came arsenic a daze successful January 2019—though chiefly due to the fact that Jeff was already progressive with not-yet-divorced Good Day L.A. co-host Lauren Sanchez and the National Enquirer published their romanticist substance messages. (Jeff, who shares 4 children with MacKenzie, countered that they were long-separated truthful the tabloid didn't person overmuch of a scoop.) 

MacKenzie, who married Seattle subject teacher Dan Jewett successful March 2021, received a reported $38.3 cardinal worthy of Amazon banal successful her divorcement settlement, turning her into 1 of the world's richest radical arsenic well. She signed The Giving Pledge, a committedness to springiness astatine slightest fractional of her luck to charity, successful 2019.

Dan made the vow arsenic good aft their wedding, but MacKenzie filed for divorcement connected Sept. 26, 2022, and it was finalized successful aboriginal 2023.

Married for 30 years, the Matilda co-stars announced successful 2012 that they were separating—but the parents of 3 ne'er pulled the trigger connected a divorce.

"We're inactive separated, but we spot each different often, and we're inactive a family," Perlman told People in August. "We tin bash things together, we tin bash things separately. I'm really, truly gladsome that Danny and I were capable to navigate immoderate unsmooth days to beryllium capable to person this antithetic benignant of relationship. I deliberation it's beauteous rare, but we hold connected truthful galore things that it makes sense."