February 27th, 2008
Sean Penn: Cruel Cheating Spouse?
When Sean Penn and Robin Wright tied the knot around eleven years ago, they seemed to be the perfect couple. Sean Penn seemed to increase in stellar power, and went on not only to star hits such as Mystic River and I Am Sam, but win Academy Award nominations, and the Oscar itself. Before the marriage, Sean Penn had been Mr. Madonna, but after four years of being husband to the pop star, he ended the marriage in 1989. A little over a decade after the 1996 wedding of Sean and Robin, their marriage has fallen apart, and Hollywood has long since been abuzz with why the Penn couple, who have two teenaged children, have split up.
Details started emerging only recently, and it turns out that Sean Penn was to blame. It was Robin who served him the divorce papers, and after she had reportedly found him with two other women in bed. It was Penn’s infidelity that finally did him in, on one weekend that the couple supposedly spent together, only to stay in separate rooms. According to reports, it was the Squaw Valley resort that saw the last days of the Penns; the resort, located in Lake Tahoe, California, is a popular destination for some celebrities. Robin and Sean were there for Christmas, but they were booked in separate suites.
Robin was growing tired of their separation, the reports say, and was of course, suspicious, because Sean was not spending a lot of time with her. When she was finally exhausted with being alone, she went to his suite – and upon entering, found her husband drunk, and in bed with two Russian women. On the 21st of December, Robin filed divorce papers, with irreconcilable differences cited as the reason for the papers being served. Robin and Sean are filing for joint custody of their two children.
The Penn affair is only one among many stories of cheating spouses in Tinseltown, where fame and fortune seem to make it all the more easy, not to mention allowable, to cheat on one’s spouse and break one’s marriage vows. Celebrity weddings, as they say, end at the altar and don’t usually last – which can be quite a tragedy, given that recent splits, such as the one between Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Philippe, seemed to be between people who were apparently perfect for each other. It seems that like in the movies, not everything that happens in Hollywood is real.