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'Desperate Housewives' star Longoria files for divorce from Tony Parker

'Desperate Housewives' star Longoria files for divorce from Tony Parker

Eva Longoria, star of the hit American TV series "Desperate Housewives", filed for divorce in Los Angeles Wednesday from her French basketball-player husband Tony Parker. The TV star cited "irreconcilable differences".

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AFP - "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria filed for divorce Wednesday from her French basketball player husband Tony Parker, three years after they wed in a French chateau, court papers showed.

The 35-year-old actress was seeking spousal support and was "devastated" by the decision, according to the TMZ celebrity website which first reported the divorce.
  
Court papers filed at Los Angeles Superior Court, and seen by AFP, showed that Longoria - who has reportedly cancelled all upcoming appearances - cited "irreconcilable differences" for the split.
  
A spokesman for the actress, who had denied an initial report on Tuesday, said Wednesday: "We are not commenting at this time."
  
Longoria and 28-year-old Parker, who is one of the top European players in the American NBA, tied the knot in a lavish wedding in a chateau outside Paris in July 2007.
  
People magazine, noting that Parker and Longoria had had a "storybook wedding," said the couple have been rocked by infidelity rumours and claims that Parker had been unfaithful.
  
The couple signed a pre-nuptial agreement a month before their wedding, updated two years later, the magazine reported online.
  
Using her full name Eva Jacqueline Longoria Parker, the actress sought "dissolution of marriage" from Parker, and asked to return to her pre-marriage name, Eva Jacqueline Longoria.
  
The actress checked the box requesting "spousal support payable to" her, which noted that an "earnings assignment will be issued." She requested that both sides paid their own legal bills.
  
Longoria said shortly after they married that she and Parker planned to raise a family in the United States. But despite rumours of pregnancy the couple have no children.
  
In a YouTube clip last year, Longoria -- who plays former runway model Gabrielle Solis on the popular US television series about life in suburbia -- said her idea of paradise was being in love.
  
"Whether it is being in love or feeling love or giving love or receiving love, but to be in this constant environment of intimacy and ecstasy," she said.
  
"To me that is paradise," she added in the post on the YouTube channel of Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz, who had asked his celebrity friends to answer the question "what is your ideal paradise?"
 
Date created : 18/11/2010 
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