LITTLE ROCK — Court records show that Diane Lane signed her filing to divorce Josh Brolin on Valentine’s Day. Lane’s petition to end the actors’ marriage after 8 1/2 years was filed in Los Angeles on Feb. 15. Her filing, released Friday, lists irreconcilable differences as the reason for the couple’s breakup and lists Feb. 13 as their separation date. It does not indicate whether they had a prenuptial agreement. The actors have no children together. It was a second marriage for both when they tied the knot in August 2004. Lane was previously married to Christopher Lambert. They divorced in 1994 and have a 19-year-old daughter. Brolin was previously married to Alice Adair. They also divorced in 1994 and have two children: an 18-year-old daughter and a 24-year-old son.
The separation was first reported by Us Weekly. Lane received an Oscar nomination for her performance in the 2002 film Unfaithful and co-stars in the forthcoming Superman film Man of Steel. Brolin was Oscar-nominated for his performance in 2008’s Milk and recently starred in Gangster Squad. A representative for the couple confirmed the divorce on Thursday.
Fire has destroyed the cook shack at country singer Loretta Lynn’s Dude Ranch in Tennessee. WSMV-TV reported that the fire broke out around 6:30 p.m. Thursday on the ranch at Hurricane Mills in Humphreys County. There were no injuries. The shack was used to prepare food for trail riders at the ranch in middle Tennessee. The flames did not endanger Lynn’s home. However, the house was damaged by recent storms that also mowed down hundreds of trees on the 6,000-acre property. Lynn chronicled her life in an autobiography and song, both titled Coal Miner’s Daughter. She was born in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky.
Front Section, Pages 2 on 02/23/2013