Gossip Girl Star Shares Update After Years-Long Custody Battle

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Years aft a highly-publicized custody battle, Gossip Girl alum Kelly Rutherford shared details astir her “quiet” beingness successful Monaco.

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Kelly Rutherford has traded Manhattan for the Mediterranean.

Nearly a decennary aft the Gossip Girl alum’s bitter custody conflict with ex-husband Daniel Giersch—which led her to determination to Monaco to beryllium adjacent their lad Hermés, 17, and girl Helena, 15—the histrion offered a glimpse wrong her “quite peaceful” beingness abroad.

“It's the other of what everyone thinks it is, for maine astatine least,” Rutherford told Travel + Leisure mag successful an interrogation published Sept. 30. “It's a spot you tin travel and truly conscionable beryllium quiet.” 

“In the wintertime, it’s precise quiet, precise backstage and precise peaceful,” she added. “It’s similar the Hamptons successful the summertime versus the Hamptons successful the winter.” 

And that tranquil beingness besides includes a elemental day-to-day routine.

“I conscionable locomotion the dogs, bent retired with the kids and tally errands,” the 55-year-old said. “If there's a assemblage opening oregon thing similar that, I’ll spell conscionable to see. But it's mostly conscionable quiescent clip present for me.”

Rutherford filed for divorcement from Giersch, a German businessman, successful 2008 aft 2 years of marriage, portion large with their daughter. Though the erstwhile mates initially struck a associated custody agreement, a justice ruled successful 2012 that the children should remain with their father successful Monaco, wherever helium had taken up residence aft his U.S. visa was revoked.

The Melrose Place prima went connected to file for bankruptcy successful 2013, conscionable months aft telling E! News, “Every penny from Gossip Girl, my pension, my stocks has been spent warring for my children."

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The lawsuit took a melodramatic crook 2 years aboriginal erstwhile Rutherford refused to instrumentality the children to Monaco aft they spent the summertime with her successful the U.S. Ultimately, a New York City justice ordered the children beryllium sent backmost to their father.

While the histrion focused connected her household successful the years aft the ruling, she’s continued to instrumentality occasional acting roles, including a 2023 impermanent spot connected the Prime Video series, Escort Boys.

“My kids are getting older, and they're benignant of like, ‘Okay, get connected with your life,’” she told People successful February. “They're teenagers now, and they've got their friends and their stuff. So my time to time has precocious been much astir maine and my dogs, moving and traveling.”

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