Sylvester Stallone’s wife hinted that their marriage was in trouble more than a year ago, admitting that the pair had been rowing. Jennifer Flavin said she found her Hollywood star husband ‘very messy’, contrasting with her tidiness.
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In an interview in April last year, giving relationship advice to her daughters, she admitted that marriage can be difficult, saying: ‘You are going to fight and you’re going to have your differences. And your bodies are changing too. Men go through changes and women go through the menopause.
‘You have to exhale and take time out. There isn’t anybody’s relationship that is perfect and happy all the time. Live with those people and see if you can handle their ups and downs, their mood swings, their quirks. I mean, everybody has their quirks.
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Ms Flavin, 54, stunned the showbusiness world when she filed for divorce last week after 25 years of marriage to the star of the Rocky and Rambo films.
As well as asking for ‘dissolution of marriage and other relief’, the former model has accused Stallone of hiding their marital assets.
Suspicions first arose about their marriage after Stallone,76, revealed that a bicep tattoo of his wife’s face had been covered by one of his dog from the Rocky films, Butkus.
Meanwhile, Ms Flavin – Stallone’s third wife – was pictured without her wedding ring 11 days before she filed for divorce in Florida.
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In the interview, on the couple’s daughters’ podcast, Unwaxed With Sophia And Sistine Stallone, she revealed the pair had been financially independent of each other at the beginning of their relationship, after they met in a Beverly Hills restaurant. They were married in 1997 and had three daughters, Sophia, 26, Sistine, 24, and Scarlet, 20.
Ms Flavin, who was working on TV shopping channels when they met, added: ‘Even when I met Sly he was his own person and he had his own money and I had to make my own. So it was not like we co-mingled our money. I paid my own taxes and my own bills and he paid his own. I did not want anything from him and he did not need anything.’
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In a statement, Stallone, 76, said that he loved his family and that they were ‘amicably and privately addressing these issues’.