14 DAY TRIAL // A few days ago, CNN talk show host Larry King filed for divorce from his seventh wife, Shawn Southwick, thus putting an end to 13 years of marriage. Hours later, Shawn too filed the papers, also citing irreconcilable differences for her request for the dissolution of marriage. Today, TMZ informs the two might have had a change of heart, as they’re already sorry for rushing into petitioning for divorce.
Amidst claims of infidelity on King’s behalf and with swirling reports that Shawn has no intention of leaving the marriage without taking as much as she can of his impressive estate (estimated at over $140 million), a new report surfaces, saying precisely the contrary. The two have not withdrawn the divorce papers yet, but TMZ claims to have it from very reliable sources that they’re seriously considering giving their marriage another try – the sooner the better, actually.
“TMZ has learned not only are Larry King and Shawn Southwick having second thoughts about filing for divorce... they’ve agreed to go to therapy to try and save their marriage. Sources intimately familiar with the situation tell TMZ, Shawn and Larry both say they love each other and both would like to figure out how to work things out, but there’s one little thing standing in the way... Shawn believes Larry is still [sleeping with] her sister,” TMZ writes.
“That aside... we’re told when Shawn and Larry met up at their son’s baseball game last night, they genuinely connected and expressed their love. They plan on speaking today and they have both agreed to meet with a marriage counselor on Monday. That said... no one has withdrawn divorce papers yet. In a bizarre twist, mega-divorce lawyer Robert Kaufman showed up again to the King mansion this morning, but he wasn’t speaking with Shawn because she was still sleeping – he was speaking with Shawn’s dad,” the report goes on to say.
As we also reported yesterday, it would seem that King didn’t ask Shawn to sign a prenup before getting married 13 years ago. Under California law, she’d be entitled to half of everything he has in case of a divorce, clearly a situation Larry King would not want to find himself in.