I don't! After Kevin Costner's divorce turns nasty FEMAIL takes a look at other famous couples whose love went from good to bad
- A-listers have as much love trouble as the rest of us but theirs costs a lot more
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Kevin Costner's divorce from estranged wife Christine Baumgartner has become explosive with claims that the star is now 'homeless' and that his ex splurged $95,000 on his credit card, and took out a restraining order against him.
In court papers seen by DailyMail.com the actor's lawyers claim that they have made 'multiple offers' to get his wife to move out of the former marital home - but have failed to reach agreement with Christine, 49, a model turned handbag designer, leaving him effectively homeless.
Costner, 68, remarks: 'This is surprising and disheartening to me.'
He adds: 'I was married once before and, upon separation, found myself without a home base and unable to live in my own home.
'I never wanted this to happen again.'
Costner, from Colorado, is worth $250 million and under the terms of the prenup, signed in 2004, she was to leave his properties if they split and relocate, using a $1.2 million fund to find a new house.
Kevin is not the celebrity to go through a tense breakup with many making the headlines over the years and one even getting turned into a TV series.
From Angelina and Brad's scuffle over a vineyard to Cheryl and Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini's divorce getting dismissed in just 14 seconds, FEMAIL looks at the most acrimonious divorces in A-list history…
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
![After 15 months of marriage Amber Heard, 37, and Johnny Depp, 60, called it quits in what can only be described as one of the most explosive and publicised ends in celebrity relationship history. Pictured in 2015](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/06/23/16/72374943-12214917-After_15_months_of_marriage_Amber_Heard_37_and_Johnny_Depp_60_ca-a-42_1687534857284.jpg)
After 15 months of marriage Amber Heard, 37, and Johnny Depp, 60, called it quits in what can only be described as one of the most explosive and publicised ends in celebrity relationship history. Pictured in 2015
Johnny Depp, 60, and Amber Heard, 37, exchanged vows under a flower-adorned marquee on the beach of the Pirates of the Caribbean star's private island Little Hall's Pond Cay in the Bahamas in February 2015.
However, it is understood they got married legally in Los Angeles first so his ailing mother was attend.
After 15 months of marriage, the couple called it quits in what quickly became one of the most explosive break-ups in celebrity relationship history.
According to TMZ, Amber filed for a divorce citing irreconcilable differences and a source at the time revealed the couple did not have a pre-nuptial agreement.
In a cruel twist of fate, Johnny's mum Betty Sue Palmer passed away two before the papers were served.
Following the split, the Aquaman actress accused her ex-husband of physical and mental abuse, which Depp denied. Following a defamation trial in the UK, which Depp lost, he successfully sued his ex in further legal action in the US over an op-ed in the Washington Post in which she wrote that she had become a 'public figure representing domestic abuse'.
During the defamation trial in Fairfax County, Virginia, which was broadcast live on television and watched around the world, each alleged the other had been abusive during their marriage.
The court heard instances of lit cigarettes being used in physical altercations and Depp drinking 'pints of wine'.
Photos of Depp's finger, which had been severed in a skirmish while the couple were visiting Australia, were shown to the court.
A jury found that Heard had defamed Depp and she was ordered to pay her ex-husband $1 million in damages.
Mel B and Stephen Belafonte
![Melanie B had to pay Stephen Belafonte '£3million over three years' and '£3.5million from the sale of the home they shared together'. Pictured in 2016](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/06/23/16/72374949-12214917-Melanie_B_had_to_pay_Stephen_Belafonte_3million_over_three_years-a-43_1687534857285.jpg)
Melanie B had to pay Stephen Belafonte '£3million over three years' and '£3.5million from the sale of the home they shared together'. Pictured in 2016
Melanie Brown, 46, split from her film producer husband Stephen Belafonte in 2017 following 10 years of marriage.
At the time, she claimed he had emotionally and physically abused her during their 10-year marriage - something which he has always vehemently denied.
The following year, she detailed her allegations against her ex in a memoir, Brutally Honest, including that he had filmed them having threesomes.
Mel B, real name Melanie Brown, admitted that the threesome was her idea but the jealous and controlling Belafonte would only ever allow their sexual escapades to involve other women, not men.
Mel B added that she liked women so this wasn't a problem, until Stephen would coerce her into doing it when she didn't even want to.
'Stephen was desperate to make me entice other celebrities into our little sex web. Some girls said yes, some girls said no.
'It was a game I had grown tired of. I wanted to stop. He didn’t. Things would get nasty and I’d give in,' she said.
Since the split, Mel B has become an advocate for victims of domestic violence and is now an ambassador for Woman's Aid.
However, as Belafonte continues to deny abusive and controlling behaviour, he has launched a war of words against his ex-wife.
Last year, he revealed he contacted Women's Aid and asked them to drop Mel B as an ambassador, claiming she was lying about being a victim of domestic abuse.
Cheryl and Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini
![Cheryl's marriage to restaurateur Jean-Bernard ended in divorce in 2016, just two years after they tied the knot following a whirlwind three-month romance. Pictured: The couple in 2015](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/06/23/16/72374953-12214917-Cheryl_s_marriage_to_restaurateur_Jean_Bernard_ended_in_divorce_-a-48_1687534857584.jpg)
Cheryl's marriage to restaurateur Jean-Bernard ended in divorce in 2016, just two years after they tied the knot following a whirlwind three-month romance. Pictured: The couple in 2015
Following her split from England footballer Ashley Cole, fans were thrilled for Girls Aloud Star Cheryl when she found love again with restaurateur Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini.
After a whirlwind three-month romance, the pair married in a private ceremony on the Caribbean island of Mustique not long after they met in Cannes, France.
But the couple's fairytale love story was shattered when they divorced two years later in 2016.
According to The Sunday Mirror, the 39-year-old singer cited 'irreconcilable differences' as the reason for the split.
It was finalised with a Decree Nisi in just 14 seconds, making it the UK's quickest divorce in history.
A source told the newspaper: 'In the end Cheryl realised she had married too soon and had been swept away by a bit of a whirlwind romance.
'Over time it became clear to each of them that they were very different people and from very different worlds.'
It was later revealed in divorce papers that Cheryl had cited the 'stress' her former flame had put her under as the reason for her losing a significant amount of weight.
A few days after the couple's divorce was finalised, reports emerged that Jean-Bernard had recorded his former wife during a bitter argument in their home as she tried to get him to leave the premises.
The Sun reported that the singer was worried the 45-minute recording would go public and expose the extent of the couple's blazing rows.
Pals of the singer also told the newspaper she was concerned by her husband's 'controlling' nature, and alleged he had resented her commitment to The X Factor, on which she was a judge for several series.
Cheryl, who went on to have a son, Bear, with One Direction's Liam Payne, reverted to her maiden name Tweedy after a phase of being known simply by her Christian name – claimed that that 'every man' in her life has let her down, leaving her with 'zero' interest in a new relationship.
In 2018 the 39-year-old hinted in an interview published in The Sunday Times Style magazine, that Jean-Bernard had cheated on her as she said how Liam, 'is the only man who has ever been faithful to her'.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
![But in 2016, the Brangelina said they were splitting - with Angelina filing a divorce from Brad after they had been married for just two years](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/06/23/16/72374955-12214917-But_in_2016_the_Brangelina_said_they_were_splitting_with_Angelin-a-51_1687534857692.jpg)
But in 2016, the Brangelina said they were splitting - with Angelina filing a divorce from Brad after they had been married for just two years
![The pair are still involved in a battle over their Chateau Miraval vineyard which they bought in 2008](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/06/23/16/72376361-12214917-The_pair_are_still_involved_in_a_battle_over_their_Chateau_Mirav-a-44_1687534857288.jpg)
The pair are still involved in a battle over their Chateau Miraval vineyard which they bought in 2008
Brad Pitt, 59, and Angelina Jolie, 48, first met on the set of Mr&Mrs Smith in 2004, while Brad was still married to Jennifer Aniston.
However, the movie marked the end of Brad and Jen and paved the way for Brangelina, as the couple got divorced in January 2005.
That same year, the couple went public with their relationship, with Pitt accompanying his new love to Ethiopia where she adopted Zahara. Soon, Pitt officially adopted Zahara and Maddox, and in 2006 Jolie gave birth to their child Shiloh.
The pair were together for a decade, and adopted
Angelina adopted Pax Thien, then three, from an orphanage in Vietnam and Brad adopted Pax in America around a year after.
But in 2016, the Brangelina said they were splitting - with Angelina filing a divorce from Brad after they had been married for just two years.
Shortly after, reports emerged that Brad was being investigated for alleged child abuse after an incident on their private jet.
Maddox allegedly put himself in the middle of his parent's argument as they flew home from Europe.
But a source told Entertainment Tonight at the time that it was 'totally a child-parent disagreement,' and reports of inappropriate physical conduct are 'exaggerated or untrue.' Brad was later cleared of the allegations in November of that year.
The following year, 2017, Brad spoke to GQ about the divorce and said: 'It's just very, very jarring for the kids, to suddenly have their family ripped apart.
'If anyone can make sense of it, we have to with great care and delicacy, building everything around that.'
'Our focus is that everyone come out stronger and better people -- there is no other outcome.'
Angelina spoke to Vanity Fair that same year and said: 'We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.
'I do not want my children to be worried about me. I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them.'
The pair are still involved in a battle over their Chateau Miraval vineyard which they bought in 2008.
They were equal owners of both the wine making enterprise and the property and even got married there in 2014.
It's been noted in court that the ex-married couple had an agreement to get consent from each other if they wanted to sell their half.
Brad accused Angelina of breaking the agreement when her share of the $160 million vineyard was passed onto a Russian oligarch.
They added that Brad learnt about his new co-owner via 'a press release,' which said that they were 'thrilled' about the new opportunity, his lawyers claim.
Ioan Gruffudd and Alice Evans
![Battle: The actor, 49, has been locked in a bitter divorce battle with the 102 Dalmatians star, 54, since their split with the pair also fighting for custody over their daughters](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/06/23/16/72365897-12214917-Battle_The_actor_49_has_been_locked_in_a_bitter_divorce_battle_w-a-52_1687535772356.jpg)
Battle: The actor, 49, has been locked in a bitter divorce battle with the 102 Dalmatians star, 54, since their split with the pair also fighting for custody over their daughters
Ioan Gruffudd and Alice Evans have been locked in a bitter divorce battle since their split with the pair also fighting for custody over daughters Ella, 13, and Elsie, nine.
Gruffudd and Evans announced that their marriage was over in January 2021 and he went public with his new romance that October.
As well as requesting visitation rights, he claimed in the filing that Evans had been purposely trying to cut communication between him and his children.
In court documents seen by MailOnline this week, Gruffudd detailed the breakdown of communication between the pair after the end of their 14-year marriage and described their increasingly hostile encounters.
Gruffudd alleged that Evans's 'verbal abuse and inappropriate behavior escalated after I moved out of the family residence' on January 25, 2021.
He said: 'Alice sent me hundreds of harassing, abusive and threatening communications by text, email, voice message, video message, and OFW (Our Family Wizard, a US co-parenting app), and she has verbally abused me on the phone and in person, often in front of the girls.'
Gruffudd also alleged that 'during the April 19, 2021 drop-off, Alice asked me to look at her outfit, lifted up her skirt to show me her bare behind, and revealed to me and the girls that she was not wearing underwear.
'I left immediately. During a FaceTime with Elsie that night, Alice screamed that she wanted me to die.'
The revelations came in documents filed at the Los Angeles Superior Court after Ella applied for a temporary restraining order against Gruffudd and his girlfriend Biana Wallace, 30.
Gruffudd met aspiring actress Wallace in Australia while shooting the series Harrow.
They now live together in Los Angeles and Wallace, who has multiple sclerosis, recently gave a magazine interview about her condition and 'Yo's' support and love for her.
In court filings, Gruffudd accused Evans of verbally abusing him during their marriage, and 'undermining him' in front of the girls throughout their lives.'
'Alice made fun of my appearance often, making hair-loss comments and telling me I had 'saggy-vagina eyes,' court papers read.
He went on to claim that Evans 'has inflicted serious emotional harm on Ella and Elsie by her statements and by interfering in my relationship with them.'
In March this year, charges that Evans had violated her restricting order were dropped.
Gruffudd is currently shooting the film Bad Boys 4 with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.
Millie Mackintosh and Professor Green
![After two-and-a-half-years of marriage, Millie Mackintosh, 33, and Professor Green, 39, were granted a 'quickie divorce' as Millie cited 'unreasonable behaviour' as her reason](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/06/23/16/72374961-12214917-After_two_and_a_half_years_of_marriage_Millie_Mackintosh_33_and_-a-46_1687534857303.jpg)
After two-and-a-half-years of marriage, Millie Mackintosh, 33, and Professor Green, 39, were granted a 'quickie divorce' as Millie cited 'unreasonable behaviour' as her reason
They were the coolest couple around – the beautiful reality star and the rapper from London.
However, after two-and-a-half-years of marriage Millie Mackintosh, 33, and Professor Green, 39, were granted a 'quickie divorce' with the Quality Street heiress citing 'unreasonable behaviour' as the reason for their split.
The divorce was granted in just 30 seconds, just three months after the couple announced they were separating after saying they had been living separate lives.
In a statement at the time, they said: 'It is a mutual decision, we still care deeply about each other and would like it to be known that it is on amicable terms and we wish each other well.'
But following their split, Professor Green, real name Stephen Manderson, revealed that the split had put him in a different position financially and also launched a scathing attack on Millie's 'fake friends'.
He admitted that he didn't gel well with his ex's friendship group, claiming that they were not to be trusted because they would sell stories to the press about the couple.
'I never really mixed with her friends. I don't like talking about her when she is not here because she can't talk for herself, but in that world it's so fake,' he said.
'A lot of [gossip] come out from people that she knew, that's the only place it could have come from.'
While the couple initially described their parting as a 'friendly divorce', in 2016 he released a song about their marriage breakdown, 'One Eye on the Door'.
Millie allegedly retaliated by covering the dress she wore on her wedding day with fake blood and wearing it to a Halloween party.
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
![Nicole Kidman, 56, and Tom Cruise, 60, met on the set of Days of Thunder in 1989 and got married a year later on Christmas Eve](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/06/23/16/72374969-12214917-Nicole_Kidman_56_and_Tom_Cruise_60_met_on_the_set_of_Days_of_Thu-a-50_1687534857601.jpg)
Nicole Kidman, 56, and Tom Cruise, 60, met on the set of Days of Thunder in 1989 and got married a year later on Christmas Eve
![A photographer captured this photo of Kidman leaving her attorney's office when her divorce from Tom was finalised](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/06/23/16/47310813-12214917-A_photographer_captured_this_photo_of_Kidman_leaving_her_attorne-a-49_1687534857599.jpg)
A photographer captured this photo of Kidman leaving her attorney's office when her divorce from Tom was finalised
Nicole Kidman, 56, and Tom Cruise, 60, met on the set of Days of Thunder in 1989 and got married a year later on Christmas Eve.
They would go on to adopt two children, daughter Isabella Jane in 1992, and son Connor Antony in 1995, but would refrain from having biological children during their marriage.
Tom introduced his wife to the Church of Scientology but she did not become a member and remained a Catholic.
The pair divorced in 2001 on mysterious circumstances, reportedly due to her refusal to join him in his Scientology beliefs.
Both Tom and the Church of Scientology have denied that the religion was associated with the breakdown of his marriage with Nicole.
However in an exclusive statement sent to the Mail on Sunday at the time, she said that her husband of ten years did not give her any warning.
The actress said she was 'heartbroken' when Tom said he wanted to separate just two months after they renewed their vows.
'This divorce was not her decision,' the statement said. 'Tom made the move. Nicole is in a state of shock.'
But Cruise's Press agent, Pat Kingsley, has claimed the couple agreed that 'an amicable separation' was 'best for both of them'.
After a seven-month legal battle, it was decided that both parents would share custody of their children, Connor and Isabella.
However the Isabella and Connor- who are both Scientologists themselves - decided to live with their father in Los Angeles, while their mother moved back to Australia.
The photograph of Nicole seemingly cheering after leaving her attorney's office when her divorce from Tom was finalised circles around the internet every so often.
'I was so young when I got married. I look back now and I'm like, "What?"' Kidman told Red magazine in 2016. 'You look at Taylor Swift, I mean how old is she? She's 26.
'I had two kids by the time I was 27 and I'd been married for four years. But that's what I wanted.'
To this day, it seems that Tom avoids bumping into Nicole, after he skipped the Oscars because his ex-wife was attending.
With roaring box-office success Top Gun: Maverick nominated for no less than six awards, one may have assumed that Tom would be present for the acting community's biggest night of the year.
But he was curiously absent this year, and according to a source, Nicole was the reason why.
A source told DailyMail.com: 'Tom was not there because she was there, and he did not want a run-in.'
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