Event class: divorce, marriage, divorced, married, filed, wife, separated, years, ended, later

Events with high posterior probability

Nicole Brown Simpson	Brown filed for divorce on February 25, 1992 citing'' irreconcilable differences''.
Frederick E. Crane	In 1913, in a suit for separation brought by Gardner L. Field against his wife Adelaide, Justice Crane held that a household is managed by the wife, not by the mother of the husband, and that a wife is not obliged to live with the husband if a mother-in-law makes the home unpleasant.
Leatrice Joy	Joy filed for divorced in August 1924, citing Gilbert's alcoholism.
Nathaniel Parker Willis	Willis was involved in the 1850 divorce suit between the actor Edwin Forrest and his wife Catherine Norton Sinclair Forrest.
Tom Green	Barrymore and Green filed for divorce on December 17, 2001, citing irreconcilable differences.
Wallis Simpson	Wallis had already filed for divorce from her second husband on the grounds that he had committed adultery with her childhood friend Mary Kirk and the decree nisi was granted on 27 October 1936.
David Pelletier	In June 2010, Salé and Pelletier announced plans to divorce following an 18-month separation.
Hubert Duggan	Duggan was granted custody of a child born to his wife on 5 August 1929.
Lida Voorhees	She was granted a decree of divorce, with custody of her children in New York Co. on December 1, 1910.
David Rozgonyi	As the friendship deepened over the next year, his wife eventually asked for a divorce in July 2006.
Mae West	According to Deiro's biographer, West filed for divorce on the grounds of adultery on July 14, 1920.
Billy Ray Cyrus	On October 26, 2010, Cyrus filed for divorce from his wife in Tennessee, citing irreconcilable differences.
Alexandre Pato	However, the marriage lasted less than ten months, and the couple divorced on 21 April 2010, with Brito citing Pato's constant partying as the reason for their split.
Jos? Lind	He walked out on the Royals in the middle of 1995 after his wife filed for divorce, and they placed him on waivers shortly thereafter.
Theresa Knorr	She filed for divorce from Harris in November 1976 after she reportedly found out that Harris enjoyed taking nude photographs of women.
Sybil Evers	According to his biographer Mark Ryan, Abrahams had a fear of commitment and old-fashioned ideas about the role of women in marriage, but he was able to overcome these, and the couple wed in December 1936.
Sandy Bowers	Though she was married at the time to someone else, Eilley married Bowers on August 9, 1859, and ten months later, she divorced Alexander Cowan on grounds of desertion.
Johnny Vegas	Vegas and Donnelly were divorced by agreement on 11 March 2008 after having lived apart for more than two years.
Britney Spears	In November 2006, Spears filed for divorce from Federline, citing irreconcilable differences.
Clint Eastwood	On October 23, 2013, Eastwood's wife filed for divorce after she withdrew her request of a separation citing irreconcilable differences.
Joseph Ralston	Ralston claimed this was while he and his wife Linda were separated, however she disputed that assertion, claiming the affair continued and led to their 1988 divorce.
Larry Fortensky	The couple split after five years in 1996 with Fortensky hiring New York divorce attorney Raoul Felder.
Marie Dressler	Dalton's first wife Lizzie claimed that he had not consented to a divorce or been served divorce papers, while Dalton claimed to have divorced her in 1905.
Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill	After Sir Henry found Lady Blanche with a lover in 1891, she managed to avert her husband's suit for divorce due to his own infidelities, and thereafter the couple separated.
Terry Southern	Terry and Carol Southern divorced in early 1972 but remained on good terms and Southern continued to support and help raise their son Nile.
Malcolm Sargent	Sargent's marriage was unhappy and ended in divorce in 1946.
Regis Henri Post	She filed for divorce in 1922.
K.d. lang	They separated on September 6, 2011, and Lang filed for a dissolution of the partnership in Los Angeles Superior Court on December 30.
Mort Cooper	He was married to Bernadine, who filed for divorce in 1945.
George, Count Joannes	Mary Eliza divorced him in May 1869 in Boston for'' desertion and lack of support''.
George Tuttle Brokaw	According to Boothe, Brokaw was an abusive alcoholic, and the marriage ended in divorce in 1929.
Selvaraghavan	After their two-year marriage Sonia Agarwal and Selvaraghavan filed for divorce with mutual consent in a Chennai family court on 9 August 2009.
Kelis	In April 2009 she filed for divorce, citing'' irreconcilable differences''.
?ric Besson	In 2013, the couple Besson ended in divorce proceedings.
Heidi Newfield	On Sept. 14, 2011, she announced that she had filed for divorce.
Sara Northrup Hollister	In June 1986, following Hubbard's death, the Church of Scientology and Alexis agreed a financial settlement under which she was compelled not to write or speak on the subject of L. Ron Hubbard and her relationship to him.
Jim Buss	They divorced in late 1985 with Buss gaining sole custody of their son.
Smokey Robinson	After Robinson admitted this, he filed for legal separation and, later, divorce, which was granted in 1986.
James Brown	In an attempt to prove her marriage to Brown was valid, Hynie produced a 2001 marriage certificate as proof of her marriage to Brown, but she did not provide King with court records pointing to an annulment of her marriage to him or to Ahmed.
Kristen McMenamy	After 16 years of marriage, McMenamy filed for divorce in April 2013.
Jill Esmond	Pressed by Olivier, who was anxious to marry Leigh, she eventually agreed and they were divorced on 29 January 1940.
Sid Bass	On October 6, 2011, it was reported that Mercedes and Sid Bass, anchors of the city's business and philanthropic world, announced their divorce, ending 23 years of marriage.
Sheila Bellush	Blackthorne who had stalked Bellush since their divorce in 1987, allegedly wanted custody of their two children.
Marty Peretz	The couple divorced in 2009, his wife citing infidelity and bad temper as problems in the marriage.
Tallulah Bankhead	Bankhead filed for divorce in Reno, Nevada, in May 1941.
John Hickenlooper	On July 31, 2012, Gov. Hickenlooper announced that he and his wife were separating after 10 years of marriage.
Warren Chisum	In 2008, Chisum announced support for his proposal to prolong the waiting time in Texas to finalize a divorce.
Annie Chapman	Following this, both Chapman and her husband took to heavy drinking and separated in 1884.
Martha Raye	Raye's marriage to Harris in a Las Vegas ceremony made headlines in 1991, partly because Raye was 75 and Harris was 42 and partly because the two had known each other for less than a month.
Ulla Andersson	Although she and Quincy Jones were formally separated, they were not legally divorced until 1974.
Corey Dillon	In April 2010, his wife filed for divorce.
Richard Mellon Scaife	On April 11, 2006 Scaife confided to a gossip columnist that he and Margaret'' Ritchie'' Battle Scaife plan to divorce and that their marriage began without a prenuptial agreement.
Billy Ray Cyrus	On June 13, 2013, Tish filed for divorce from Billy Ray after 19 years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.
Maria Shriver	On May 9, 2011, Schwarzenegger and Shriver announced their separation after 25 years of marriage, with Shriver moving out of the couple's Brentwood mansion.
M?nie Muriel Dowie	In 1903 Henry Norman divorced her, causing a scandal by publicly accusing her of adultery with mountaineer Edward Fitzgerald.
Ralph Carpenter	His 1932 marriage to Cynthia Ramsey ended in divorce.
Boris Becker	After Becker asked Barbara for a separation in December 2000, she flew to Miami, Florida with Noah and Elias, and filed a divorce petition in Miami-Dade County Court, sidestepping their prenuptial agreement, which had entitled her to a single $ 2.
Rudy Giuliani	Giuliani and Hanover finally settled their acrimonious divorce case in July 2002, after his mayoralty had ended, with Giuliani paying Hanover a $ 6.
Jon Corzine	Corzine and the still married Katz were soon dating, and they began appearing in public as a couple in early 2002, shortly after Corzine's unofficial separation from his wife Joanne.
Gilbert Cannan	Her husband sought to be reconciled, but relented and divorced her in a high-profile case, and she and Cannan were married in 1910.
Elena Mumm Thornton Wilson	They fell deeply in love, went to Reno, Nevada, divorced their respective spouses, and remarried there in December, 1946, when he was 51 and she was 40.
Cheryl Hines	On July 20, 2010, Hines and Young filed papers for their divorce after nearly eight years of marriage.
Swastika Mukherjee	According to Mukherjee, Sen filed for divorce in 2000, but changed his mind later when she became successful in her acting career.
Martha O'Driscoll	Following her last film, Carnegie Hall (1947), and a final divorce decree (on July 18, 1947) from her first marriage, she married, two days later, her second husband, Chicago businessman, Arthur I. Appleton.
John A. Hull	She would divorce him on May 22, 1934, in Reno, Nevada.
Richard Dutcher	After 23 years of marriage, they divorced in 2011 with Dutcher citing his decision to leave the church a'' contributing factor'' to the divorce.
Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll	He was the 11th Duke of Argyll, but is chiefly remembered for his unhappy marriage to and scandalous 1963 divorce from Margaret Whigham.
Murray Humphreys	In 1957, after a separation of three years from her husband, Mary Brendle Humphreys filed for divorce.
Mary Lawson (actress)	It is uncertain when the affair between Lawson and Beaumont began, but Beaumont's wife purchased an announcement in the 30 November 1937 edition of The Times asking for a'' dissolution'' of their marriage'' on the ground of his adultery with Miss Mary Lawson.''
Martin Lawrence	Lawrence filed for divorce from Gibbs on April 25, 2012, citing irreconcilable differences and asking for joint legal and physical custody of the children.
Travis Barker	Barker's first marriage, to Melissa Kennedy, lasted nine months until he filed for divorce in August 2002.
Clara Beranger	In June 1926, William to the surprise of his wife, announced that he wanted a divorce.
Lelia J. Robinson	After Robinson divorced her husband in 1877 for adultery, the only acceptable grounds for divorce at that time, she decided to pursue a legal career in effort to support herself at the age of twenty-eight.
Grace La Rue	She married Hamilton on May 29, 1920, amid a whirl of controversy surrounding a lawsuit filed by Hamilton's first wife.
Dorothy Parker	She eventually separated from her husband, divorcing in 1928, and had a number of affairs.
Lamar Odom	On December 13, 2013 after months of speculated separation, Kardashian filed for divorce from Odom, and for legal restoration of her last name.
William Beebe	In January 1913, Blair left Beebe for Reno with the intention of divorcing him, since at this time in history it was easier to obtain a divorce in Reno than in most other areas of the United States.
Bernard Ebbers	His second wife filed for divorce from him on April 16, 2008, less than two years after he entered prison.
Kevin Federline	On October 1, 2007, a court ruling granted Federline sole physical custody of his children, with legal custody to be decided.
Kay Laurell	In July 1917, she filed for legal separation from Sheehan citing'' cruelty''.
Bette Davis	In 1938, Nelson obtained evidence that Davis was engaged in a sexual relationship with Howard Hughes and subsequently filed for divorce citing Davis's'' cruel and inhuman manner''.
Josephine Dillon	Although, it has been alleged that she first divorced him in Mexico in 1929, but the divorce was not legally recognized.
William Bennett Kilpack	Kilpack sent his wife to Paris but, according to The New York Times, failed to follow her there as he promised, so she divorced him there in March 1925 on grounds of desertion.
Rhona Martin	Prior to the 2006 Winter Olympics, it was reported that Martin was living on welfare and that her financial problems were causing her to live apart from her husband.
Norman W. Walker	It is not known when and where Norman and Margaret divorced, but the 18 Jan. 1943 issue of the Reno (NV) Evening Gazette reported a Marriage Application for Norman W. Walker of San Francisco and Helen Ruth Kerby of Carson City.
Steve Hofmeyr	The couple was divorced after reports of numerous affairs dominated Hofmeyr's time in the spotlight in 2008.
Nelson Mandela	Initiating divorce proceedings in May 1956, she claimed that Mandela had physically abused her ; he denied the allegations, and fought for custody of their children.
Aamir Khan	In December 2002, Khan filed for divorce, ending the 15-year marriage.
Kathlyn Williams	They supposedly divorced over Kainer's disapproval of his wife having an acting career, and Williams subsequently obtained a divorce from Kainer in 1909 in Nevada.
Dorian Leigh	On April 23, 1957, Leigh's 40th birthday, de Portago told Leigh that he was supposedly finally divorcing Carroll so they could be legally married.
Cindy Birdsong	Birdsong filed for divorce in March, 1975 citing'' irreconcilable differences''.
John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry	They had four sons and a daughter ; his wife successfully sued for divorce in 1887 on the grounds of his adultery.
Elena Ford	In 1997, Elena Ford was involved in a dispute with her half-siblings by her father's third wife, Eugenia Livanos.
Bobby Brown	Following fourteen years of marriage, Brown and Houston filed for legal separation in September 2006.
Aretha Franklin	Franklin's parents had a troubled marriage due to stories of C. L. Franklin's philandering and in 1948, they separated, with Barbara relocating back to Buffalo with her son, Vaughn, from a previous affair.
Ryuichi Sakamoto	His first marriage took place in 1972 but ended in divorce two years later.
Kathleen Clarice Groom	When Herman Klein became aware of it he filed a petition for divorce, which was granted in December 1901.
Isabella Glyn	They were divorced on her petition on 10 May 1874.
Thomas Jane	In January 2009, Arquette filed for divorce from Jane on the grounds of irreconcilable differences, but the couple soon reconciled and Arquette requested to abandon the divorce petition on July 9, 2009.
Robert Lucas, Jr.	His ex-wife, Rita Lucas, upon their divorce in 1988, had a clause placed in their divorce settlement that she would receive half of any Nobel Prize won by Lucas in the next seven years.