Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan avoid trial after agreeing divorce settlement
26 September 2024, 19:44
Before the settlement, Dewan had been arguing for two separate trials, one over custody and one over finances, but Tatum had objected.
Actors Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan have reached a settlement to finalise their divorce six years after she first filed to end their marriage and years after both entered other long-term relationships.
The couple agreed to the terms in a court filing on Wednesday.
It means that Tatum and Dewan will avoid a trial, scheduled to begin in December, over the splitting of assets and over custody of their 13-year-old daughter, Everly. The proceedings may have made many of their private details public.
Details of the settlement were kept confidential under the agreement, which must still be approved by a judge.
Both have long been in other relationships, Tatum with actor and director Zoe Kravitz and Dewan with actor Steve Kazee, with whom she has had two children.
Both Dewan and Tatum began their careers as dancers in music videos. They met as co-stars of the 2006 dance movie Step Up and married in July 2009.
They announced their split in April 2018, saying jointly on social media that they had decided to “lovingly separate as a couple” but remained best friends.
She filed for divorce six months later and in November of 2019 a judge declared them divorced and single. But a years-long fight over finances and custody continued and appeared to be growing more heated as the trial approached.
Before the settlement, Dewan had been arguing for two separate trials, one over custody and one over finances but Tatum had objected.
Tatum starred in the Magic Mike movies and 21 Jump Street. He has an extended cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine and recently appeared as the lead in the Kravitz-directed Blink Twice but he acted very little in the years immediately after the split.
“Time just kind of got away,” Tatum told The Associated Press in 2022. “Really, being a dad sort of just swept me away for almost four years. I kind of got lost in doing that.”
Dewan appeared in several other dance films after Step Up and is now a regular on the ABC series The Rookie.
