NICOLE Kidman has filed for divorce from Keith Urban after 19 years of marriage, bringing a surprising end to a long and seemingly successful union that brought together two superstars from the worlds of movies and music.
The 58-year-old Oscar-winning actor petitioned on Tuesday, Sept. 30, to end her marriage to the 57-year-old Grammy winning country singer in a Nashville court. The documents state the couple has undergone âmarital difficulties and irreconcilable differences.â
Kidman and Urban, two of the biggest stars to come out of Australia in recent decades, have been red carpet fixtures throughout their two-decade relationship, with Urban joining his wife at the Oscars and Kidman attending music events like the Academy of Country Music Awards.
The filings include a marriage dissolution and childcare plan agreed on by the couple and submitted for a judgeâs approval.
âThe 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,â says the permanent parenting plan, using language common in the stateâs divorces. âThey 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.â
The plan asks that Kidman be the primary residential parent to the coupleâs two daughters, ages 17 and 14, having them for 306 days per year with Urban taking them for the other 59.
The filing states that each parent earns more than $100,000 per month and neither will need childcare or spousal support.
The detailed agreements suggest that the divorce had been in the works for well over a month at the least. Urban signed the parenting plan on Aug. 29, Kidman on Sept. 6.
It will take at least 90 days for the divorce to become final under Tennessee law.
Representatives for Kidman and Urban did not respond to emailed requests for comment on Tuesday.
Both raised in Australia, Kidman and Urban met in 2005 at a Los Angeles event honoring Australians and were married in Sydney the following year.
The marriage was the first for Urban and the second for Kidman, who was married to Tom Cruise from 1990 to 2001. Kidman also has two older children with Cruise.
Their split was first reported by TMZ.
Urban separated from Kidman and is already involved with a new woman â at least that’s what their inner circle and the Nashville community believe, according to TMZ.
Multiple sources connected to the actress said “all the signs point to the fact Keith is with another woman. Let’s just say, Nicole doesn’t dispute that, but she’s still shocked over it.”
One Kidman source added, “It’s all over Nashville.” (Associated Press/TMZ)
