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R/£ Oops, she did it again - Britney files for divorce from Kevin
November 08, 2006 Edition 2
Pop superstar Britney Spears has abruptly filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences with husband Kevin Federline just two months after the birth of their second child.
Spears, 24, filed a divorce petition in Los Angeles Superior Court yesterday, a day after a surprise appearance on a late-night TV chat show, showing off a new haircut and a black minidress, and looking sexier than she has for years.
The date of the separation after two years of marriage was given as Monday.
Spears did not seek maintenance but asked for sole custody of her two sons with Federline, one-year-old Sean Preston and James Jayden, born on September 12.
For months rumours had swirled that the marriage between the pop princess and aspiring rap artist had turned rocky.
But Britney said nothing in her Monday appearance on the CBS Late Show with David Letterman to suggest divorce was imminent.
But she was not wearing her wedding ring and celebrity magazines reported that she had not attended the New York launch party last week for Federline's first album, Playing With Fire.
In Touch magazine said Spears had been spotted in tears at a New York restaurant last week. US Weekly said the two had stayed in separate hotels in New York.
A few months ago, Spears denied she was estranged from her husband, telling a television interviewer he had helped her weather the ups and downs of her second pregnancy.
Her marriage to Federline was her second after a 2004 spur-of-the-moment wedding in Las Vegas to a former high school sweetheart that was quickly annulled. - Reuters
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