LONDON GOSSIPS AND TALKS
Frost Granted Petition for Final Divorce
Actress
separated from hubby Jude Law following birth of baby girl
Photo: Jude Law and Sadie Frost (AP)
Actress Sadie Frost was granted her petition for divorce from Oscar-nominated actor Jude Law by the High Court in London. Frost's petition was in a list of 30 cases that a district judge approved in a brief hearing at the London divorce courts. The decree nisi, or interim divorce, was granted 10 months after Frost and her 30-year-old former husband split up, on the grounds of his alleged unreasonable behavior. Law didn't contest the divorce proceedings. A decree nisi is not a final divorce order, but it is expected to be finalized within days. Frost, 35, and Law, who have three children, were married in September 1997. In court documents made public after the hearing, Frost said that Law's behavior after the birth of their third child, Rudy, in September "increased the effect of postnatal depression leading me to have to take treatment three times." In a question and answer-style affidavit in support of the divorce petition, Frost also replied "no" when asked if Law's behavior was continuing. She gave the date of the final incident of unreasonable behavior as January 2003. The couple's publicist announced in January that Frost had been admitted to a London clinic suffering from severe postnatal depression. In a statement issued at the time, Law said that his wife was "feeling very blue" after Rudy was born prematurely. The actor flew back to London from a film set in Los Angeles to look after the couple's two other children, son Rafferty and daughter Iris. The apparent tribulations of the couple were newspaper fodder for the next few months and in an August statement Frost said that she had "very reluctantly" decided her marriage was over. Law, 30, was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Anthony Minghella's film The Talented Mr. Ripley. He recently worked with the filmmaker on the as-yet-unreleased Cold Mountain, starring opposite Nicole Kidman.
Music stores yank Stones in protest
Band's exclusive deal with Best Buy angers Music World, HMV
Photo:
The
Rolling Stones pose prior to performing at the Concert for SARS Relief at
Downsview Park in Toronto on July 30. (CP/Kevin Frayer)
In
retaliation for the Rolling Stones' decision to sell its much-anticipated Four
Flicks DVD set exclusively through the Best Buy chain of stores, three of
Canada's biggest retailers have pulled all Rolling Stone merchandise from their
shelves. Last Friday, executives at Pindoff -- which controls Music World's 93
stores across Canada -- ordered their outlet managers to begin removing all
Rolling Stones CDs, DVDs and videotapes. HMV and Sunrise followed suit this
week, though officials at HMV and Pindoff say there was no communication or
discussion of the issue among the retailers.
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