For years, divorce rumors hounded former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and her husband Todd. The couple, who eloped in 1988, were thrust into the spotlight in 2008 when she joined Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign. After their ticket lost the presidency, the pair and their five children — sons Track, 30, and Trig, 11, and daughters Bristol, 29, Willow, 25, and Piper, 18 — remained the focus of much speculation and gossip. Now, those rumors of a rift have proven — Todd filed for divorce on September 6.
In 2010, there were rumors that Sarah and Todd, both 55, were heading toward a $20 million divorce settlement.
“I call Todd on the cell phone [from the grocery checkout] and I say, ‘Todd, you won’t believe this cover!’ And he says, ‘Twenty million? Write me a check,’” she told People at the time about the gossip. “He’s good about laughing some of that stuff off.”
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“It seemed like the lies would never let up,” the former governor, who resigned before finishing her term, explained in 2010 about the rumor mill. “Some days I would say, ‘Okay, Lord, where is the light at the end of the tunnel?’”
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In 2009, their representative denied divorce rumors in a heated email to People, writing, “No truth to any of the rumors. No divorce. No affairs. No land in Montana. Nothing! All lies and fabrications!” Bristol even thought her baby daddy, Levi Johnston, was one source of rumors about the family.
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“Our whole life is under a microscope,” Todd said. The family had their own reality show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, around the same time.
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Sarah did an interview with Greta Van Susteren where she addressed speculation that she’d had a boob job. She said, “A report like that is about as real and truthful as reports that Todd and I are divorcing or that I bought a place in the Hamptons or that Trig is not my own child.”
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But now, the divorce is happening. According to
RadarOnline.com, the divorce documents filed by Todd cite “incompatibility of temperament between the parties such that they find it impossible to live together as husband and wife.”
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He’s demanding their assets be “divided equally,” and asking for shared custody of their only minor child, Trig.
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What do you think of Todd and Sarah’s reactions to divorce rumors? Sound off in the comments!
“It seemed like the lies would never let up,” the former governor, who resigned before finishing her term, explained in 2010 about the rumor mill. “Some days I would say, ‘Okay, Lord, where is the light at the end of the tunnel?’”
Photo credit: Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock
In 2009, their representative denied divorce rumors in a heated email to People, writing, “No truth to any of the rumors. No divorce. No affairs. No land in Montana. Nothing! All lies and fabrications!” Bristol even thought her baby daddy, Levi Johnston, was one source of rumors about the family.
Photo credit: AP/Shutterstock
“Our whole life is under a microscope,” Todd said. The family had their own reality show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, around the same time.
Photo credit: Scott Eklund/AP/Shutterstock
Sarah did an interview with Greta Van Susteren where she addressed speculation that she’d had a boob job. She said, “A report like that is about as real and truthful as reports that Todd and I are divorcing or that I bought a place in the Hamptons or that Trig is not my own child.”
Photo credit: Brandon Marshall/Shutterstock
But now, the divorce is happening. According to
RadarOnline.com, the divorce documents filed by Todd cite “incompatibility of temperament between the parties such that they find it impossible to live together as husband and wife.”
Photo credit: Jason Szenes/EPA/Shutterstock
He’s demanding their assets be “divided equally,” and asking for shared custody of their only minor child, Trig.
Photo credit: Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
What do you think of Todd and Sarah’s reactions to divorce rumors? Sound off in the comments!
Photo credit: Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock
