Family Law

Celebrity Divorce Round-Up: Phillips, Baldwin, Sheen

By ckramer

There has been no shortage of celebrity divorce news lately, with all of the emotional fireworks that the public has come to expect. In one instance, a divorce was undone, and in another, some personal details came out into the light. Sports stars, movie stars and familiar tabloid faces are among those whom divorce has impacted.

Singer and actress Chynna Phillips, a member of the musical group Wilson Phillips, made headlines with a change of heart that has gone public. Phillips she filed for divorce from her husband, actor and brother-to-the-stars Billy Baldwin. Her lawyers filed on her behalf on the same day that she got out of rehabilitation for anxiety issues.

Two days later, however, Phillips changed her mind. She had her legal team withdraw the divorce, with the hopes that she could save her 15-year marriage with Baldwin.

Phillips and Baldwin, recently the star of the TV show Dirty Sexy Money, have three children together. The couple?s manager, Lizzie Grubman, told the New York Post, Every married couple has its up and downs, but they are two people who have been together for 18 years and are deeply in love. They will work through their personal issues and they are committed to staying together.

From a heartwarming reconciliation, to a much more messy affair, it should perhaps not be a surprise that Charlie Sheen?s personal life is once again making headlines. Sheen?s wife, Brooke Mueller, has decided to file for divorce. Making the situation all the more racy are new details that Mueller may have had a bisexual affair with a mystery woman.

The unidentified woman has said that she will expose Mueller?s past, as well as revealing details about her marriage to Sheen. According to the Examiner, Mueller feared that Sheen would expose her past, and that she had not filed for divorce for that reason.

The couple is no stranger to tabloid drama. On Christmas Day last year, Sheen was arrested for assault after an alleged incident of domestic violence against Brooke. According to sources, Sheen became enraged when Mueller told him that she wanted a divorce. Now, according to sources, Mueller has reached her breaking point, and has finally filed for divorce.

Moving to the world of sports, the wife of home run king and scandal-plagued baseball player Barry Bonds has filed for divorce from her husband of 12 years. The Associated Press has reported Liz Watson?s Los Angeles divorce filing. The two have already reached a financial agreement, and in the filing Watson cited irreconcilable differences.

The couple, who were married in 1998, have an 11-year-old daughter together, and Watson is seeking joint custody. Details of the financial agreement were not released in the initial divorce filing.

Bonds has been a lightning rod in the baseball world, for his connections to people who have faced allegations of distributing steroids. Bonds has not played baseball in the major leagues since 2007, after breaking the all-time home run mark.

Full post as published by The Divorce Blog on March 06, 2010 (boomark / email).