Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger's marriage is officially finished after the award-winning journalist petitioned to end her then-25-year marriage to the action star and former California governor.
According to court papers, the divorce was finalized on Tuesday by a Los Angeles judge.
Shriver filed for divorce from Schwarzenegger in 2011 after Schwarzenegger revealed he had fathered a kid with a member of their home staff years before.
The news sparked a tabloid frenzy, but Schwarzenegger and Shriver went through their divorce quietly and without making any public allegations. It's unclear why the procedure took so long to complete. Between the first flurry of files in 2011 and the commencement of court proceedings in June, there were almost no public activities in the matter.
The settlement's financial specifics were kept under wraps. There is no child support or custody arrangement because the couple's four children are now all adults.
According to the settlement agreements, neither party owes the other any spousal support, but both have the right to seek it in the future through the courts.
Messages left for comment with the former couple's lawyers were not immediately returned.
After a successful career as a bodybuilder, Schwarzenegger made a fortune playing action parts in the Terminator and Conan film franchises. After California had economic troubles and widespread power outages under then-Governor Gray Davis's administration, voters recalled Davis and elected Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger to the governorship in a free-for-all election in 2003.
Schwarzenegger put his acting career on hold to serve two terms as governor of California. He acknowledged to fathering a child, Joseph Baena, who is now 24, with a member of his home staff in the late 1990s within a year of leaving government. In July 2011, Shriver filed for divorce.
Since then, he's appeared in the Terminator and Expendables flicks on an irregular basis.
When Shriver's husband declared his candidacy for governor, she was compelled to quit from her post as a correspondent on the NBC show "Dateline."
After her husband left government, she resumed her career as a television journalist, producing stories for NBC while also championing women's rights and reporting on and campaigning for persons with Alzheimer's disease.
"I've Been Thinking...: Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life" was her best-selling book in 2018.
Shriver is the daughter of President John F. Kennedy's sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps and a vice presidential candidate in 1972.
The children of Shriver and Schwarzenegger range in age from 24 to 32. Katherine Schwarzenegger, the eldest, is a novelist and the wife of actor Chris Pratt.
