This just in: Larry King, host of CNN’s Larry King Live, has filed for divorce from his seventh wife. After nearly 13 years of marriage, King is calling it quits with Shawn Southwick — the mother of his two young sons, a rep for the star said this afternoon. Although Larry was accused of bedding his wife’s young sister in a report from The National Enquirer in 2009, in divorce papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, the veteran newsman counts only the ever-popular “irreconcilable differences” as the driving force behind the couple’s split.
“Larry’s major [concerns] are his kids and their well being,” says a rep for the late-night giant.
Shawn, who was treated for addiction to painkillers in 2008, filed dissolution of marriage papers of her on Wednesday, requesting primary custody of their kids, ages 9 and 11.
King has been married to seven different women, but this is his eighth divorce, because he remarried former wife Alene Akins and then later divorced her a second time.
King, 76, and Shawn, 50, wed in a hospital room, shortly before Larry had surgery to clear a clogged blood vessel, in 1997.