Ten years after their separation, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver are officially divorced. The American site TMZ has indeed announced that it had been finalized Tuesday, December 28, 2021, in a Los Angeles court. The divorce proceedings would have been particularly long because of the couple’s assets and the multiple financial aspects to be negotiated.
Maria Shriver, 66-year-old journalist and niece of former President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, filed for divorce in July 2011, after 25 years of marriage and four children: Katherine (32, wife of actor Chris Pratt) , Christina (30), the handsome Patrick (28) and Christopher (24). Two months earlier, Arnold Schwarzenegger had admitted having had a relationship with the couple’s housekeeper, Mildred Baena, to whom a boy was born in 1997, Joseph. “After my term as governor ended, I spoke to my wife about this event, which dates back over a decade.“, he wrote at the time, as AFP recalls.
In March 2017, with the magazine Men’s Journal, Arnold Schwarzenegger had confided in this infidelity: “I can flog myself as much as I want – that won’t change the situation, commented the 74-year-old actor. So the main thing is to know how I move forward. How to have a good relationship with your children? You can’t go back – if i could actually be a Terminator of course i would go back in time and I would say, ‘Arnold … no’. You know, it’s always easy to be smart in hindsight. This is not how it works. “