Kevin Costner and Wife Christine Baumgartner Break Up
Yellowstone isn't the lone happening that's ending for Kevin Costner.
As reports were circulating that the veteran star would beryllium leaving the fan-favorite drama—but days earlier Paramount Network confirmed season 5 would beryllium the show's last—Costner's woman Christine Baumgartner filed for divorce aft 18 years of marriage.
That news came without warning, and conscionable a fewer months aft Costner gave his regrets for their lack astatine the Jan. 10 Golden Globes owed to a flooded-out freeway amid a spate of torrential rainfall successful Southern California. "Chris had a beauteous dress," the disappointed-sounding histrion said successful an Instagram video changeable outdoors, the Pacific Ocean down him. "I looked guardant to walking down the reddish carpet with her."
Instead, she had bought him immoderate balloons, helium shared, and they'd beryllium watching connected TV "to spot what happens." And it was a nighttime to remember, with Costner winning for pb histrion successful a TV drama. But portion a constitution travel to an awards amusement podium could inactive beryllium successful the cards, the 68-year-old's next red carpet might look a batch antithetic from what he's been utilized to for the past 2 decades.
In her May 1 filing, Baumgartner requested associated custody of their kids, sons Cayden, 15, and Hayes, 14, and girl Grace, 12, portion Costner's promptly filed effect indicated he'd abide by the presumption of a prenuptial agreement.
"It is with large sadness," his rep told E! News astatine the time, "that circumstances beyond his power person transpired which person resulted successful Mr. Costner having to enactment successful a dissolution of matrimony action."
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This was Costner's 2nd marriage. His first, to Cindy Silva, lasted 16 years and produced Annie, 39, and Lily, 36, and lad Joe earlier they divorced successful 1994, aft which helium had lad Liam with girlfriend Bridget Rooney in 1996.
Of course, you ne'er cognize what the aboriginal holds.
Costner's Taylor Sheridan Universe compatriot Sylvester Stallone showed precocious that a divorcement filing doesn't necessarily mean that differences can't beryllium reconciled, the Tulsa King star hand-in-hand with woman Jennifer Flavin a period aft she moved to extremity their 25-year marriage.
But if the prima has acceptable connected Costner's latest union, he's surely not a lone rider successful that respect, either. Scroll connected for much personage marriages that lasted longer than most, but pulled up shy of forever:
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