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LITTLE ROCK — Ashton Kutcher filed court papers Friday to end his seven-year marriage to actress Demi Moore. The actor’s divorce petition cites irreconcilable differences and does not list a date that the couple separated. Moore announced last year that she was ending her marriage to the actor 15 years her junior,but she never filed a petition. Kutcher’s filing does not indicate that the couple have a prenuptial agreement. The filing states Kutcher signed the document Friday, hours before it was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. Kutcher, 34, and Moore, 50, married in September 2005 and until recently kept their relationship public, communicating with each other and fans on the social networking site Twitter. After their breakup, Moore changed her name on the site from @mrskutcher to @justdemi. Messages sent to Kutcher’s and Moore’s publicists were not immediately returned Friday. Moore was previously married to actor Bruce Willis for 13 years. They had three daughters together - Rumer, Scout and Tallulah Belle - before divorcing in 2000. Kutcher has been dating former That’70s Show co-star Mila Kunis. The divorce filing was first reported Friday by People magazine.

Paramount Pictures and Mario Puzo’s heirs agreed to drop legal action that began when the movie studio sued The Godfather author’s estate to prevent the publication of a sequel to the novel about a Mafia family. The parties voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit, according to a stipulation filed Thursday in federal court in Manhattan. Paramount sued Anthony Puzo, Mario’s son and the executor of his estate, in February to stop the publication of a new sequel to The Godfather, claiming it wasn’t authorized. The heirs counter sued in April to cancel the contract between the studio and Mario Puzo. U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan in September denied the Puzos’ bid to terminate the agreement. Paramount said in its complaint that after Puzo died in 1999, the company agreed to allow Random House to publish one sequel, The Godfather Returns, which came out in 2004. The estate published another novel, The Godfather’s Revenge, in 2006, without Paramount’s approval, the studio said. Paramount sued after the estate announced a plan to publish a third sequel, The Family Corleone.