Locklear Unplugs Rock 'n' Roll Marriage

Thu., Feb. 2, 2006 2:35 PM PST by

In November, Heather Locklear and Richie Sambora were "together." In December, the actress and the Bon Jovi guitarist were "happily married." But now it's February--and they're divorcing.

Locklear, 44, did the filing deed Thursday in Los Angeles, citing irreconcilable differences and asking that the celebrity couple's prenuptial agreement be enforced.

"This is a private matter, and there will be no further comment at this time," Locklear publicist CeCe York said in a statement.

The release had Locklear and Sambora's marriage as lasting 10 years, but it actually passed the 11-year mark last December, around the same time the couple shushed whispers of their imminent demise.

"The real story is that there is no story," Locklear and Sambora said at the time in a statement to the New York Daily News. "The truth is that after 11 years together, we are still happily married. Boring but true."

Earlier, in November, a Locklear rep told E! Online columnist Ted Casablanca that the couple was very much "together." A Casablanca source had insisted the couple was very much apart.

Locklear and Sambora, 47, wed in 1994 in Paris. It was her second marriage; his first. The couple have an eight-year-old daughter, Ava.

In the divorce filing, Locklear requests joint custody, but also actual physical custody, of her and Sambora's child.

In November, Casablanca quoted a Sambora source as saying the rock star was "spending a lot of time in New Jersey." Per the rumor mill, the couple grew apart in 2004 while Locklear worked on the short-lived NBC series LAX, Casablanca reported.

In the Daily News in December, reputed Sambora insiders unloaded on Locklear, saying the former Melrose Place vixen needed "24-hour-a-day [butt]-kissing," rejected her husband's wishes for a second child and annoyed his Bon Jovi bandmates.

"If Richie divorced her," an unnamed source told the newspaper, "nobody would be heartbroken."

By Thursday afternoon, Us Weekly was on filing watch at the downtown L.A. courthouse, blaring in an email that "several sources close to the couple" had confirmed the beginning of the end was nigh.

Locklear previously tried marriage to a rock 'n' roller from 1985 to '92 with M?tley Cr?e drummer Tommy Lee, 43--an amped-up, Spinal Tap 11 compared to the low-key Sambora.

A TV institution thanks to starring roles on Dynasty, T.J. Hooker, Spin City as well as Melrose Place, Locklear most recently appeared on ABC's Boston Legal in October.

Bon Jovi, the sturdy, hook-handy rock group of "Livin' on a Prayer" and "Wanted Dead or Alive" fame, is currently on tour. The band is scheduled to play Thursday night in Washington, D.C.

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