estranged wife

noun

formal
: a wife who no longer lives with her husband

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Harbour also recently made headlines following the release of estranged wife Lily Allen's latest album, West End Girl, which contained references many interpreted as pointing toward alleged unfaithfulness on Harbour's part, though the actor isn't explicitly named in the lyrics. Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Nov. 2025 Gallagher added that Ross had drunk half a bottle of whiskey while extremely depressed on Christmas Day 2017, before messaging his estranged wife Iris about being hurt ahead of the killings, the Arizona Republic stated. Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025 Trudeau shares Hadrien and son Xavier, 18, as well as daughter Ella-Grace, 16, with his estranged wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau. Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025 Bijou Phillips, the estranged wife of Danny Masterson, is reportedly petitioning a California court to change her 11-year-old daughter's name. Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025 Deiseroth continued to yell and bang his head in the back of the car while Lane, Dorestant and Scibilia arranged for Deiseroth’s estranged wife to come down from Miami-Dade County to pick up the couple’s children, according to the footage and his arrest report. David Goodhue october 24, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025 The Crown’s West plays tech titan Morgan Henderson, and Anatomy of a Scandal’s Miller stars as his estranged wife, international film star Carla Duval. Jake Kanter, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025 Trudeau went through a public split of his own in 2023, separating from estranged wife Sophie Gregoire. Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025 At the end of Season 3 Coach Lasso, a former fictional Wichita State football coach, left British soccer behind to reunite with his young son and estranged wife in Kansas. Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2025

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