Robin Williams' wife files for divorce

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Robin Williams and Marsha Garces Williams, married in April 1989, are splitting up. Garces Williams filed a divorce petition in San Francisco on March 21, seeking to end her marriage to Williams on the grounds of irreconcilable differences.

She is in her early 50s; he is 56. They married soon after Williams' divorce from Valerie Velardi, to whom he had been married for 10 years. Williams' and Garces' daughter, Zelda, was born in July of that year; their son, Cody, in 1991.

Williams and Garces met while she worked as a nanny for Zachary, born in 1983 to Williams and Velardi. Garces subsequently worked as personal assistant to the comedian. Four years after their marriage, in a New York Times interview, he said, "I don't need to go out to a club now and get a little bit of intimacy from 100 or 200 people. Now I can get that talking to friends around the table."

Over the years, as their family grew, Williams and Garces worked together, both professionally and toward values they shared. In 1991, they founded Blue Wolf Productions; Garces produced "Mrs. Doubtfire," "Patch Adams," "Jakob the Liar" and "Robin Williams Live on Broadway."

Together they also created the Windfall Foundation, a non-profit that focuses on education, health, the environment and the arts. Garces has particularly been involved with Doctors Without Borders and Seacology; Williams with the Christopher Reeve Foundation (he was Reeve's classmate at Juilliard) and Comic Relief. Their house, in Sea Cliff, was the site of a variety of big-ticket fundraising dinners and cocktail parties, but also Halloween central for neighborhood trick-or-treaters.

Williams has done two publicly acknowledged stints in rehab: for drugs in the 80s and, after staying sober for 20 years, for alcohol in 2006. The couple was out and about at various events upon his return, and in the past year, he has delighted Bay Area audiences by dropping in unannounced for surprise appearances at comedy events and clubs.

Garces was not at Williams' side when he was honored by the San Francisco International Film Festival last spring, and amid reports of many sightings in Marin County, where he was said to have been living, rumors of problems have been rife for months.

Garces' lawyer, Robert Kaufman of Beverly Hills, would provide no information.

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/article...lliams0326.html

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I wonder if the reason on the divorce petition will read:

"too hairy"

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oh no!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I wonder if the reason on the divorce petition will read:

"too hairy"

That's a long marriage, especially for celebrities. It's sad to see them part ways after being close partners both personally and professionally.

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

That made me seriously laugh!

I wonder if the reason on the divorce petition will read:

"too hairy"

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

I'll take him. Always had a soft spot for Robin

[eau_xplain 2]

Sorry to hear that.

I've always admired Robin Williams' work.

[DeadPoolX 9]

I wonder if the reason on the divorce petition will read:

"too hairy"

That's a long marriage, especially for celebrities. It's sad to see them part ways after being close partners both personally and professionally.

That might have been part of the problem right there. I've always heard it's a bad idea to mix your social and work lives together. If a husband and a wife work alongside each other, then they could potentially see one another practically 24 hours a day. I know that sounds nice to some of us here -- since we get to see our spouses so infrequently -- but sometimes couples need some "alone time." Even worse, problems, issues and arguments can carry over from home to work and vice-versa.

If you're not in-charge where you work, then getting involved with someone who works there too (whether he or she is a boyfriend/girlfriend or spouse) could lead to some very uncomfortable situations. Your job might also attempt to terminate one of you, since it might claim that both of your performance would decrease, as you wouldn't relate to each other as colleagues.

Financially speaking, it's also a huge risk. If your spouse works with you and you two created your business, then he or she is legally entitled to the company just as much as you are. So if you get divorced, what happens to your job? One of you might have to quit or the entire business may have to fold. Having completely separate careers can prevent this from taking place (although it won't stop alimony or child support payments).

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I wonder if the reason on the divorce petition will read:

"too hairy"

That's a long marriage, especially for celebrities. It's sad to see them part ways after being close partners both personally and professionally.

That might have been part of the problem right there. I've always heard it's a bad idea to mix your social and work lives together. If a husband and a wife work alongside each other, then they could potentially see one another practically 24 hours a day. I know that sounds nice to some of us here -- since we get to see our spouses so infrequently -- but sometimes couples need some "alone time." Even worse, problems, issues and arguments can carry over from home to work and vice-versa.

If you're not in-charge where you work, then getting involved with someone who works there too (whether he or she is a boyfriend/girlfriend or spouse) could lead to some very uncomfortable situations. Your job might also attempt to terminate one of you, since it might claim that both of your performance would decrease, as you wouldn't relate to each other as colleagues.

Financially speaking, it's also a huge risk. If your spouse works with you and you two created your business, then he or she is legally entitled to the company just as much as you are. So if you get divorced, what happens to your job? One of you might have to quit or the entire business may have to fold. Having completely separate careers can prevent this from taking place (although it won't stop alimony or child support payments).

Good point.