Stallone wife spoke of rows long before split
SYLVESTER STALLONE’S wife hinted that their marriage was in trouble more than a year ago, admitting that the pair had been rowing. Jennifer Flavin said she found her Hollywood star husband ‘very messy’, contrasting with her tidiness.
In an interview in April last year, giving relationship advice to her daughters, she said marriage can be difficult, adding: ‘You are going to fight and you’re going to have your differences. And your bodies are changing too. Men go through changes and women go through the menopause.
‘You have to exhale and take time out. There isn’t anybody’s relationship that is perfect and happy all the time. Live with those people and see if you can handle their ups and downs, their mood swings, their quirks. I mean, everybody has their quirks.
‘I am very A type and my husband is not very A type. He is very messy and I am not. So it’s like, “Can I live with messy?”’
Ms Flavin, 54, filed for divorce last week after 25 years of marriage to the star of the Rocky and Rambo films.
As well as asking for ‘dissolution of marriage and other relief’, the former model has accused Stallone of hiding their marital assets.
Suspicions arose about their marriage after Stallone, 76, revealed that a bicep tattoo of his wife’s face had been covered by one of his dogs from the Rocky films, Butkus.
Meanwhile, Ms Flavin – his third wife – was pictured without her wedding ring 11 days before she filed for divorce in Florida.
In the interview, on the couple’s daughters’ podcast, she revealed the pair were financially independent of each other at the outset. They married in 1997 and had three daughters, Sophia, 26, Sistine, 24, and Scarlet, 20.
Ms Flavin added: ‘Even when I met Sly he was his own person and he had his own money and I had to make my own. So it was not like we comingled our money. I paid my own taxes and my own bills and he paid his own. I did not want anything from him and he did not need anything.’
In a statement, Stallone, 76, said he loved his family and that they were ‘amicably and privately addressing these issues’.