Nicole Kidman files for divorce from Keith Urban after 19 years of marriage
Court documents cite ‘irreconcilable differences’ for the split between the Oscar-winning actress and her country singer husband
Nicole Kidman has filed for divorce from Keith Urban after 19 years of marriage.
The 58-year-old Oscar-winning actress petitioned on Tuesday to end her marriage to the 57-year-old Grammy-winning country singer in a Nashville court. The documents state the couple has undergone “marital difficulties and irreconcilable differences”.
The filings include a marriage dissolution and childcare plan submitted for a judge’s approval. It asks that Kidman be the primary residential parent to the couple’s two teenage daughters.
The filing states that neither side will get childcare or spousal support, and that each will keep all the assets that are in their own name, including the copyrights and royalties for their artistic work.
Both raised in Australia, Kidman and Urban met in 2005 at a Los Angeles event honouring 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.
