Actor Ben Foster files for divorce from ‘That ’70s Show’ star Laura Prepon
Ben Foster and Laura Prepon just put a big X on their marriage: The “X-Men: The Last Stand” actor and the “Orange Is the New Black” star are divorcing.
Foster filed for the split last month in Tennessee, where the couple and their two children have lived for two years, formally moving to end their six-year marriage. His complaint, obtained Wednesday by The Times, said that he and Prepon, both 44, had “suffered irreconcilable differences” and “are unable to live together successfully as husband and wife.”
The film actor listed their wedding date as May 25, 2018, and date of separation as Sept. 9, 2023, exactly one year before his divorce filing. However, a representative for Prepon said Friday that the date of separation listed by Foster was a typographical error and that the actual separation date was Sept. 9, 2024.
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Prepon was served the documents Sept. 13, according to Davidson County court records. A representative for Foster did not reply to The Times’ requests for comment.
Foster, who has starred in “3:10 to Yuma,” “Six Feet Under” and the Disney Channel series “Flash Forward,” asked the court to enforce a 2018 prenuptial agreement that called for an “equitable division” of their marital assets and debts and the incorporation of their “marital dissolution agreement and agreed parenting plan” into their final divorce decree. He and Prepon share two minor children.
Prepon filed an answer to Foster’s petition on Thursday listing their date of separation as last month.
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“We have been advised that Mr. Foster’s attorneys are in the process of amending the Complaint to reflect the correct date of separation which is September 9, 2024,” Prepon’s representative told The Times. “In the meantime, our Client has filed an answer to the Complaint — which has been accepted by the Tennessee court — noting the separation date as September 9, 2024, not September 9, 2023.”
Foster’s attorney on Friday submitted an amended complaint correcting the “typographical error,” according to court records reviewed by The Times.
The “That ’70s Show” alumna began dating Foster in July 2016; the two had long been friends. They got engaged that October and welcomed their first child, daughter Ella, in 2017. Although Foster said in his filing that they wed in New York in May 2018, Prepon said they were “just married” in a June 3, 2018, Instagram post. They welcomed their son, whose name they have not publicly disclosed, in early 2020.
This is the first marriage and first divorce for both Foster and Prepon.
Updates
9:34 a.m. Nov. 15, 2024: An earlier version of this article cited a complaint that listed the couple’s date of separation as Sept. 9, 2023. Foster and Prepon separated last month.
