• Most Popular
  • Most Shared

Pictures

Beyonce performs "Single Ladies" at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards in New York, September 13, 2009. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn

Pictures of the year: Entertainment

A look at the year's best entertainment photos.   Slideshow 

    Sean Penn and wife Robin to divorce after 11 years

    LOS ANGELES
    Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:38pm EST
    The director of ''Into the Wild'', Sean Penn (R), and wife Robin Wright Penn attend the premiere of the film in Los Angeles September 18, 2007. The couple is divorcing after 11 years of marriage, People magazine reported on Friday. REUTERS/Phil McCarten

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn and his wife, Robin Wright Penn, are divorcing after 11 years of marriage, People magazine reported on Friday.

    Entertainment  |  Film  |  People

    Penn's publicist, Mara Buxbaum, confirmed the divorce to the magazine but gave no details.

    Penn, 47, who won an Academy Award for his role in the 2003 movie "Mystic River," and Wright, 41, married in 1996 and have two teenage children.

    Penn's first marriage -- to pop star Madonna -- ended in 1989 after four years.

    Wright is best known for her starring role in the romance "Message in a Bottle." She also appeared in the adventure movie "Beowulf" which opened in the United States in November.

    Reuters/Nielsen
    Entertainment
    Film
    People


    More from Reuters

    Photo

    EPA questions New York state plan to drill for shale gas

    PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has "serious reservations" about allowing shale gas drilling in New York City's watershed, warning of a threat to the drinking water for 9 million people.

    » More Top News
    A picture of an arrow in this file photo. REUTERS/File
    OUTLOOK 2010:

    The coming Great Inflation

    Real or imagined, Americans have plenty of things to worry about. Should inflation be one of them?  Full Article 

    ECONOMY
    REUTERS/Bernd Debusmann
    Bernd Debusmann:

    Killing people is easier than killing ideas

    All the talk about hunting down those responsible for attacks on the U.S. has a familiar ring.  Commentary 

    U.S.