On Monday, we brought you a slightly sketchy story (via a Brazilian newspaper) about Monica Belluci and Vincent Cassel supposedly separating after 14 years of marriage. In the report, we heard about how Monica had enough of whatever Vincent was doling out and had left their Rio mansion to return France with the couple’s two daughters. At the time, I wondered aloud whether Monica had finally decided that a fidelity-free marriage was not something that she wanted to live with forever.
Now I have another (more juvenile) theory. Since news broke via People (the source among sources when it comes to publicist-friendly celebrity gossip), our photo agencies have swiftly set about bringing older, archived pictures of Monica and Vincent to the forefront. Check out this side-eye that Monica is giving Vincent’s awful perm-hair in 2002. Ladies and gentlemen, this is where the trouble truly began. Look at her face!
This more recent “Miley tongue” photo from 2012 probably didn’t help either.
Seriously though, I shouldn’t be trying to make you laugh at all, and I do apologize. The dissolution of any marriage is a very sad thing for a multitude of reasons, and we shouldn’t make light of this serious event. People magazine has indeed confirmed that Monica and Vincent have decided to go their separate ways:
European film stars Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel have separated “by mutual agreement” after 14 years of marriage, according to reports.
The Italian actress, 48, and the French actor, 46, met in 1996 while filming the French film The Apartment. They married three years later and have two daughters – Deva, 8, and Leonie, 3.
Bellucci, a former model, starred in the Matrix sequels and also played Mary Magdalene in The Passion of the Christ. Cassel is best known in the U.S. for his work in Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen, and in Black Swan.
Both of their reps confirmed the split, with Cassel’s saying the separation is “by mutual agreement.”
[From People
The question remains whether or not Monica and Vincent are still trying to work things out or if they’re just separating as a means to filing divorce. My theory? Vincent finally decided to get with one of his side pieces on a more permanent basis. His loss.
Photos courtesy of WENN
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