NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nicole Kidman has filed for divorce from Keith City after 19 years of marriage, bringing a stunning finish to a protracted and seemingly profitable union that introduced collectively two superstars from the worlds of films and music.
The 58-year-old Oscar-winning actor petitioned on Tuesday to finish her marriage to the 57-year-old Grammy profitable nation singer in a Nashville courtroom. The paperwork state the couple has undergone “marital difficulties and irreconcilable differences.”
Kidman and City, two of the largest stars to return out of Australia in latest a long time, have been purple carpet fixtures all through their two-decade relationship, with City becoming a member of his spouse on the Oscars and Kidman attending music occasions just like the Academy of Nation Music Awards.
The filings embrace a wedding dissolution and childcare plan agreed on by the couple and submitted for a choose’s approval.
“The mother and father will behave with each other and each child so as to provide a loving, stable, consistent and nurturing relationship with the child even though they are divorced,” says the everlasting parenting plan, utilizing language frequent within the state’s divorces. “They will not speak badly of each other or the members of the family of the other parent. They will encourage each child to continue to love the other parent and be comfortable in both families.”
The plan asks that Kidman be the first residential guardian to the couple’s two daughters, ages 17 and 14, having them for 306 days per 12 months with City taking them for the opposite 59.
The ladies have lived in Nashville all their lives, and the paperwork give no indication that can change.
The submitting states that every guardian earns greater than $100,000 per 30 days and neither will want childcare or spousal help.
The wedding dissolution plan lays out a roughly equal division of joint belongings, with every protecting all of the belongings which are in their very own identify, together with the copyrights and royalties for his or her inventive work.
The detailed agreements means that the divorce had been within the works for properly over a month at least. City signed the parenting plan on Aug. 29, Kidman on Sept. 6.
It’ll take a minimum of 90 days for the divorce to change into remaining underneath Tennessee regulation.
Representatives for Kidman and City didn’t reply to emailed requests for touch upon Tuesday.
Each raised in Australia, Kidman and City met in 2005 at a Los Angeles occasion honoring Australians and have been married in Sydney the next 12 months.
The wedding was the primary for City and the second for Kidman, who was married to Tom Cruise from 1990 to 2001. Kidman additionally has two older youngsters with Cruise.
The couple had publicly however lovingly described some marital difficulties, however there have been nonetheless few if any indicators they have been headed for divorce. Media experiences of their separation got here only a day earlier than the divorce submitting.
Final 12 months on the premiere of the Netflix collection “The Perfect Couple,” Kidman advised The Related Press the time period didn’t apply to her and City.
“You’re heading for trouble if you consider yourselves the perfect couple,” she stated. “I’m not a believer in perfect.”
A couple of months earlier, City paid tribute to Kidman, and introduced her to tears, when she acquired the AFI Life Achievement Award.
City stated she confirmed him “what love in action really looks like” when his substance abuse issues emerged virtually instantly after they wed in 2006.
“Four months into our marriage, I’m in rehab for three months,” City stated. “Nic pushed through every negative voice, I’m sure even some of her own, and she chose love. And here we are 18 years later.”
Kidman’s movie roles have included “Days of Thunder,” “Eyes Wide Shut,” “Moulin Rouge” and “The Hours,” for which she gained an Academy Award for taking part in writer Virginia Woolf. She has extra just lately labored in tv, together with the collection “Nine Perfect Strangers” and “Big Little Lies,” for which she gained Emmys as each actor and producer.
City has been a serious nation star for the reason that Nineties, with hits together with “Somebody Like You” and “Blue Ain’t Your Color.” He has gained 4 Grammy Awards and greater than a dozen ACM Awards.
Their cut up was first reported by TMZ.
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Dalton reported from Los Angeles.
