QUICK TAKES - April 14, 2009
Robyn Gibson, Mel Gibson’s wife of 28 years, filed for divorce in L.A. Superior Court on Monday, citing irreconcilable differences.
The couple have seven children, but only one under 18. Robyn Gibson has requested joint custody of their son who turns 10 today.
Details of how the couple’s assets will be divided were not spelled out in the court filings. Robyn Gibson is seeking jewelry and earnings and assets she accrued after the couple separated, and a share of the money and assets Gibson, 53, has earned during his nearly three decades as a Hollywood hitmaker.
Mel Gibson filed a response to the divorce within four hours of his wife’s filing, stating that the couple separated in late August 2006 -- about a month after the actor was arrested in Malibu on suspicion of drunk driving.
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