Closing their chapter. Anthony Anderson and wife Alvina Stewart have split after more than 20 years in combination, Us Weekly confirms.
Stewart filed for divorce from the 51-year-old actor on Friday, March 25. According to documents got by Us, the Howard (*22*) graduate is looking for spousal reinforce and asked for Anderson to pay her lawyer’s fees. The exact date of the pair’s separation was no longer indexed, but Stewart cited “irreconcilable variations” as the reason for the breakup.
The estranged couple tied the knot in September 1999 after meeting as faculty scholars a decade prior. They proportion two youngsters: Kyra, 26, and Nathan, 22.
Anderson and Stewart have been previously separated from 2014 to 2016. Though she filed for divorce in 2015, Stewart dismissed the petition three hundred and sixty five days later.
The twosome faced demanding situations forward in their split, together with the Me, Myself & Irene actor’s 2004 sexual attack allegations. Anderson was accused of harassing a 25-year-old woman who was operating as an additional at the set of his movie Hustle and Flow. The actress claimed at the time that Anderson and assistant director Wayne Witherspoon had compelled her to have intercourse with them several times all over production, but the case was once ultimately pushed aside.
In July 2018, the Law & Order megastar found himself at the middle of controversy once again when the Los Angeles Police Department launched an investigation into every other set of sexual assault accusations. An unidentified lady alleged that she used to be careworn by means of Anderson while catering an match for him 12 months prior. A rep for the Golden Globe nominee shut down the claims in a remark to Us.
“It is unfortunate that any one can record a police file if it is true or false,” the spokesperson mentioned at the time. “The government have not contacted Anthony or any of his representatives about this matter. Anthony unequivocally disputes the claim.”
Several months later, the L.A. District Attorney’s Office declined to record charges against the Kangaroo Jack actor because of a loss of enough evidence.
News of Anderson’s divorce comes in the course of the eighth and final season of Black-ish, which also stars Tracee Ellis Ross, Yara Shahidi, Jenifer Lewis, Marsai Martin and extra. The California local previously gushed over Ross, 49, and the duo’s bond as fictional married couple Dre and Rainbow Johnson.
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“I've a good time with Tracee,” he solely instructed Us in January 2021. “[She’s the] modern day Lucille Ball, and I’m her Desi Arnaz. … To be at work is simply [a] pleasure. I get to are living my dream on a daily basis, do what I care to do, and to do it with those that I like doing it with.”
In November 2020, Anderson called Ross his “partner in crime,” telling Us, “The chemistry is simple, and it’s been that means since day one. We’ve identified every different for about 15 years now, possibly longer. And it’s at all times been nice chemistry between us.”
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