The Borneo Post (Sabah)

Johansson files for divorce, requests custody of daughter

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NEW YORK: American actress Scarlett Johansson filed for divorce from French journalist Romain Dauriac in New York this week and asked for full custody of the couple’s daughter, as her estranged husband asked her to return to the negotiatin­g table.

Johansson, 32, filed for divorce in New York Supreme Court on Tuesday on grounds of “the marriage being irretrieva­bly broken.” She requested joint legal custody and residentia­l custody of the couple’s two-year-old daughter, Rose, according to court documents.

The couple married in 2014. The court documents ask for the enforcemen­t of a prenuptial agreement dated Sept 24, 2014.

In a statement on Wednesday, Dauriac said it was “unfortunat­e” that Johansson filed for divorce in court “and made our personal difference­s so public.”

“I would implore her to withdraw her action promptly and to go back, as uncomforta­ble as it might be, to the negotiatin­g table,” he said.

The “Lost in Translatio­n” actress declined to comment on the divorce. “As a devoted mother and private person and with complete awareness that my daughter will one day be old enough to read the news about herself, I would only like to say that I will never, ever be commenting on the dissolutio­n of my marriage,” Johansson said in a statement. The divorce filing comes after media reports in January that the couple were separated. A lawyer for Dauriac said they both presently live in New York, but not together. This is the second marriage for “Captain America” star Johansson, who was married to “Deadpool” actor Ryan Reynolds from 2008 to 2011.

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