Maria Shriver: ‘I’m Filing For Divorce’
May 24 2011, Published 6:24 a.m. ET
Breaking Celebrity News Legal Editor
Maria Shriver has told friends she WILL file for divorce from love rat husband Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The pair announced their separation on May 8, nine days before the former California governor admitted he fathered a child with a longtime member of household staff.
“Maria absolutely will be filing for divorce,” a close friend of Shriver tells Breaking Celebrity News exclusively.
It emerged last week that the jilted former TV journalist has retained celebrity divorce lawyer Laura Wasser to represent her in her split from 63-year-old Schwarzenegger.
Until now, though, it had been suggested that due to her strong Catholic beliefs, Shriver hadn’t yet decided if she wanted to end the pair’s turbulent 25 year union.
But Breaking Celebrity News has been told the long suffering Kennedy scion, 55, has arrived at her decision after sordid details of husband’s double life continued to be exposed.
“It's not a matter of if Maria will file for divorce, but when,” the source said.
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