{"id":26809,"date":"2019-07-10T14:59:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T20:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1055863"},"modified":"2019-07-10T14:59:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T20:59:55","slug":"matt-lauers-wife-annette-roque-files-for-divorce-more-than-a-year-after-today-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/matt-lauers-wife-annette-roque-files-for-divorce-more-than-a-year-after-today-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Lauer&#8217;s Wife Annette Roque Files for Divorce More Than a Year After Today Firing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44.077512776831\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20171030\/rs_634x1024-171130113346-634.Matt-Lauer-Annette-Roque.ms.113017.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Matt Lauer, Annette Roque\" alt=\"Matt Lauer, Annette Roque\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for The Apollo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"29.940035273369\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/matt_lauer\">Matt Lauer<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>Annette Roque<\/strong> are officially&nbsp;ending their 20-year marriage<\/p>\n<p>Roque filed divorce papers in a New York court on Tuesday, a year and a half after their split, E! News has confirmed. She and&nbsp;the&nbsp;disgraced former&nbsp;<em>Today<\/em> show co-anchor share three children: sons&nbsp;<strong>Jack<\/strong>, 18, and&nbsp;<strong>Thijs<\/strong>, 12, and daughter <strong>Romy<\/strong>, 15.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The case, which is an uncontested matrimonial, was filed on July 9th in State Supreme Court in Suffolk County, New York and is awaiting judicial review of the agreement,&#8221; a court spokesperson told E! News in a statement. &#8220;Upon a judge&#8217;s signature, it will be sent to the court clerk&#8217;s office to be entered. The process could take up to a few months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lauer and Roque split in late 2017, shortly after he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/906210\/katie-couric-opens-up-about-matt-lauer-firing-and-sexual-harassment-allegations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fired from NBC, where he was reportedly paid $20 million a year<\/a>, over sexual harassment allegations. At the time, he apologized &#8220;to the people I have hurt.&#8221; He also said&nbsp;that some of the accusations made against him were &#8220;untrue or mischaracterized&#8221; but that &#8220;there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed.&#8221; Divorce rumors have loomed since the former pair&#8217;s breakup.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"62.10650887574\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"17.467455621302\">\n<p>In June, <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2019\/06\/10\/matt-lauer-and-annette-roque-close-to-finalizing-divorce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Page Six<\/a> reported that Lauer and Roque had reached a divorce settlement and that the two&nbsp;have&nbsp;agreed to share custody of their&nbsp;children. The outlet also said she was set to receive&nbsp;up to $20 million in assets, as well as their&nbsp;Hamptons horse farm. It is unclear what they will do with their Hamptons home, Strongheart Manor, which Lauer bought from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/richard_gere\">Richard Gere<\/a><\/strong> for $36.5 million in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Page Six also&nbsp;reported that amid the split, Lauer&nbsp;has continued to reside on the property&nbsp;with the rest of the family, and will likely move to his own place after the divorce is finalized.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2014Reporting by Jessica Finn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(E! and NBC are part of the NBCUniversal family.)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1055863\/matt-lauer-s-wife-annette-roque-files-for-divorce-more-than-a-year-after-today-firing?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for The Apollo Matt Lauer and Annette Roque are officially&nbsp;ending their 20-year marriage Roque filed divorce papers in a New York court on Tuesday, a year and a half after their split, E! News has confirmed. She and&nbsp;the&nbsp;disgraced former&nbsp;Today show co-anchor share three children: sons&nbsp;Jack, 18, and&nbsp;Thijs, 12, and daughter Romy, 15. 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