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The paper trail may have been long but at least they're all signed.

Usher and Tameka Foster finalized their divorce on Wednesday.

The star first made his confessions filed for divorce in June, citing "irreconcilable differences" and declaring they had lived apart for nearly a year and that the marriage was "irretrievably broken."

The 31-year-old star married the stylist in August 2007, and their son, Usher Raymond V, was born a few months later. Their second son, Naviyd Ely Raymond, arrived in December 2008.

Usher filed for joint custody, but the arrangements have not been made public.

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They aren't the only ones to call it quits this year. Keep up in our Big Celebrity Splits gallery.

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Déjà vu.

During Jon Gosselin's Sunday night appearance at New York City's West Side Jewish Center, the world's most famous reality dad had yet another public epiphany, alongside his newest companion, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.

Everything got covered during Gosselin's forum, Gawker reports, including his excuse for arriving 40 minutes late. When he got over his own tardiness, he shared on his desire to be out of the spotlight, his rumored split with Hailey Glassman and his request for forgiveness from his estranged wife, Kate.

"I think I'm just misunderstood. I'm not a fame seeker. Everyday I look in the mirror and I wonder [why I'm famous]," the reality star explained at the public event. "I don't sing. I don't dance. I'm not a Nobel Peace Prize winner. I just had eight kids and I had a show on TLC."

TLC fame or not, Gosselin says he in no way condones his actions over the past few months.

"Half the stuff I've done, if I look at my moral compass, I shouldn't have done," he said. "I know that, but I did it anyway. It's like fame canceled out conviction. I didn't grow up this way. But I have to keep on going, keep on working and providing." And in regard to his children, Gosselin stated: "I know I'll have to explain my actions."

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UPDATE: A rep for Corey Feldman said the actor is hopeful he and his soon to be ex-wife "can work to resolve this quickly and amicably and he is fully committed to doing what is best for the welfare of their son."

But not to accepting blame for the split.

The rep said Feldman is "deeply hurt and saddened by this unexpected change in their relationship, and has done nothing to contribute to the demise of the marriage."

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Dreaming a little dream doesn't always work.

Corey Feldman's wife, Susannah, filed for divorce last week after seven years of marriage, citing the nondescript irreconcilable differences as the reason for splitting up.

She wants legal and physical custody of their 5-year-old son, Zen, and for Feldman to pay spousal and child support. She wants her ex to have visitation rights, according to the petition filed Oct. 22 in Los Angeles Superior Court.

This was Feldman's second marriage.

Perhaps life had just gotten too, well, surreal for Susannah since wedding her hubby on the set of The Surreal Life in 2002, nine months after they met at a club.

"Six years together and we're still in love," Feldman, 38, told People in 2007. He also credited his wife and son with helping him break free of a spiral of depression and substance abuse.

"Whereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things, I see my son's bright eyes and smile in the morning, and suddenly, I don't feel like I'm depressed anymore," he said. "There's nothing to be depressed about when you've got that."

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Another Big Celebrity Split for the books.

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No need to feel in the dark. We know we haven't given you a Jon and Kate Gosselin update since Tuesday, but we won't let you go into the weekend without your fix.

E! News has confirmed that the dynamic duo is due in court bright and early Monday morning for another arbitrator's conference in relation to their divorce proceedings.

Despite reports to the contrary, Jon's attorney, Mark Heller, tells E! News that the octodad is in "total compliance with the court's orders" demanding he pay back $180,000 of the $235,000 he supposedly took from the couple's joint bank account.

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Life is like a box of chocolates...and Robin Wright Penn is going through a bunch of icky crème-filled ones right now. Or something like that.

The Forrest Gump star and soon-to-be former Mrs. Sean Penn opens up in the November issue of Redbook about her pending divorce from her Oscar-winning hubby and the new life that awaits her and the couple's children, daughter Dylan, 18, and son Hopper, 16.

"It never [feels good]," she says of the uncoupling, which has been playing in the tabloids after several unsuccessful attempts at reconciliation.

"Yes, it's divorce; it's a given that it will be public. But...it's so disrespectful. 'You're an actress, you owe us this?' F--k you is what I say."

And that's not all she says...

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Avril Lavigne is looking to make life less complicated.

The already separated singer has filed for divorce from her hubby of three years, Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley.

Irreconcilable differences were cited as the reason for the split, according to the petition filed last Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court.

The punky pop duo, both of whom were born and bred in Canada, have no kids together. They swapped vows July 15, 2006, in Montecito, Calif.

Lavigne gave their separation date as Sept. 4, 2009, though her message to fans about "moving forward on a positive note" didn't show up on her website until Sept. 17.

But apparently neither date told the whole story.

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UPDATE: Flanked by their respective lawyers, the gruesome twosome both arrived, with their respective attorneys and at least one bodyguard (Kate's) in tow, at the Montgomery County Court around 8:30 a.m. ET.

Jon and Kate Gosselin spent about an hour inside chambers before leaving—albeit separately, through different exits and via different elevators. The duo first met with an arbitrator but were unable to strike a deal about how to divvy up their money. They then went before a judge, who told the octo-'rents to try again with the arbitrator. (This really is a case of passing the buck.) The Gosselins are due back at the court on Oct. 26.

At which point there may be a bit more money to divvy up, if Michael Lohan is to be believed...

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This round goes to Christie Brinkley.

The model's lawyer today said she was "completely vindicated" after a judge reached a settlement in the latest of her court action-required battles with ex-hubby Peter Cook.

Just when you thought no argument was too petty to enlist the aid of our legal system, the latest fight was sparked a couple weeks ago after Brinkley failed to turn over her 14-year-old son's passport in time for him to make a school trip to Egypt—on which, it just so happens, Cook was supposed to chaperone.

As a result, father-son time turned into ex-spousal court time, with both sides accusing the other of violating the terms of their divorce: Brinkley said Cook engaged in a smear campaign against her, while Cook filed a motion requesting the erstwhile cover girl undergo anger management, that a parenting coordinator be appointed and that the children's passports be held by a third party.

One, presumably, who has a slightly better grasp of time pressures.

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We'll believe it when we see it—or rather, when we don't see it, hear it or read about it—but after what we can only imagine was a contentious weekend for anyone bearing the surname Gosselin, something of a détente has been called, at least temporarily, between Jon and Kate.

"We have a truce," Jon's attorney, Mark Heller, told E! News. "Neither side will be commenting until after the hearing."

A noble if exceedingly tardy gesture, to be sure, but all won't be quiet on the Gosselin front for too long: The silence-breaking hearing of which Heller speaks is taking place tomorrow.

The arbitrator's conference will be held in Pennsylvania at an as-yet undisclosed location (in other words, not the courthouse) most likely at an attorney's office.

Over the weekend, Kate's attorney, Mark Momjian, told E! News that the duo will attempt to hash out agreements on "economic issues"—all 235,000 of them, we're guessing—during the hearing. Last week, Kate filed for temporary spousal and child support from Jon.

But while the duo may be doing their best to keep a low profile today, the same can't be said for their hangers-on. Chief among them, Michael Lohan.

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Is it just us, or has Usher been taking courses at the Andy Samberg School of Songwriting?

Either way, he knows how to drive his point home: The man is "ready to sign them papers."

This, at least, according to the aptly titled "Papers," a new tune released online by the R&B mastermind this morning, in which he discusses his pending divorce from Tameka Foster and gives a bit of lyrical insight fresh for the mining for fans and gossip hounds alike.

Oh, and all those persistent rumors about his marriage putting a strain on his relationship with his mom? As tends to be the case, they were persistent for a reason.

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