Jack White and Olivia Jean are divorcing after 4 years; she cites 'inappropriate marital conduct'

Jack White and Olivia Jean are going to beryllium (just) friends. The mates is calling it quits aft much than 4 years of marriage.

According to tribunal documents reviewed by TMZ, Jean filed for divorcement connected June 3 successful Nashville, and cited the aforesaid day arsenic their day of separation. The petition alleged that White was “guilty of inappropriate marital conduct, which makes further cohabitation unsafe and improper.”

In Tennessee, “inappropriate marital conduct” is simply a commonly cited crushed successful a fault-based petition for divorce. Although the authoritative statute defines this arsenic a spouse being blameworthy of “cruel and inhuman attraction oregon conduct,” ineligible experts astatine the Hoffman Law and Mediation Office enactment that the existent behaviors qualifying nether the instrumentality service arsenic a wide catch-all.

This is White’s 3rd marriage, and divorce, arsenic the erstwhile White Stripes frontman was antecedently joined to Stripes drummer Meg White and model-singer-songwriter Karen Elson.

The divided comes much than 4 years aft Jean, besides a musician, joined White onstage, mid-performance, successful Detroit. “Ladies and gentlemen, it’s been specified a beauteous day, I’m reasoning wherefore don’t we conscionable bash this close present and get joined close now?” White said earlier asking Jean’s father, Brent Markel, who was successful attendance, if the mates had his blessing.

“Yes,” said Markel, hugging White.

Then White called his Third Man Records co-founder, “Minister Ben Swank,” onstage to execute the nuptials, and the brace said their “I do’s” to thunderous applause from the crowd.

In July 2022, Jean told the New York Times that it was the champion acquisition of her life. “You could program a wedding for 5 years and it wouldn’t comparison to that.”