It Didn’t Last Always: Stevie Wonder Files For Divorce

August 3rd, 2012 - By Brande Victorian

Source: celebritywonder.ugo.com

Another Hollywood marriage has hit the rocks. TMZ is reporting that Motown legend Stevie Wonder has filed for divorce from his wife of 11 years citing irreconcilable differences.

According to the papers, Wonder has been separated from wife Kai Millard Morris since October 2009.

Wonder filed the divorce papers using his legal name, Stevland Morris, and signed with two fingerprints.

In the docs, filed by disso-queen Laura Wasser, Wonder asks for joint custody of the couple’s two boys, ages 10 and 7.

In the docs, Wonder agrees to pay both spousal and child support.

Kai is a fashion designer who married Stevie in 2001. The couple’s oldest son Kailand occasionally performs as a drummer on stage with Stevie and the younger son, Mandla Kadjay Carl Stevland Morris, shares his dad’s birthday of May 13.

So far, there’s no word on what sparked the separation or subsequent divorce, but this will mark the end of Stevie’s second marriage. In 1972 he divorced his first wife of two years, Motown singer Syreeta Wright.

Brande Victorian is the news and operations editor for madamenoire.com. Follow her on twitter @Be_Vic.

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  • CA Pullen

    I tell you, people don’t get along and don’t even try long enough to work differnces out. It is a shame and it is sad.

  • TRUTH IS

    Damn….do marriages last anymore….cut and paste behavior

    • Yvette

      Some marriages do last. I have been married for 23 1/2 years and it is not always easy. The reality is that love is not enough. You must generally like the person you are married to as well. There are also other factors such as trust, fidelity, etc. if those things collapse, it is sometimes difficult to bounce back and when you know you have given it your all there is nothing left to do but walk away. I am not an advocate of divorce, but life is waaay to short to be stuck in a bad, unhappy marriage.

      • TRUTH IS

        Good for you, you are one of the few. All the best in your marriage, I believe in marriage but people are soo selfish these days!! my parents have been married for 42 yrs….my mother put up with a lot of ish in the name of love :)

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