Sean Penn wants divorce – and the kids

If you’re a fan of Sean Penn you may be in luck — he’s about to be single. Again.

Sean has filed papers in Marin County to dissolve his uneasy marriage to Robin Wright-Penn. The glamorous couple got hitched in 1996 and their marriage hit the shallows in 2007, but that divorce was dismissed at the couple’s request. Three days later, Robin did the same thing. But this time it looks like it’s real.

Previously married to Madonna, Sean, 48, has now asked the court to end the thirteen-year marriage with Robin, 43, by means of ‘legal separation with minor children.’ The couple have two, Dylan, 18, and Hopper, 15, and last time they wanted joint custody, which is likely to be the outcome this time as well – if this divorce sticks.

The familiar ‘”irreconcilable differences,” are the reasons listed for this sad separation, and the signs were all there — Sean won his second ‘Best Actor’ Oscar in February for his stunning recreation of gay rights activist, Harvey Milk, and in true Hollywood fashion thanked every sentient thing on the planet — except Robin. Shortly after the win, he told Oprah his gratitude for his wife was ‘implicit,’ and he wanted to limit his thanks to the crew and the cast.

Doesn’t sound like that went down too well, huh?

Last month, rumors were flying about a lustful liaison with Natalie Portman, but sources close to Ms. Portman have dismissed them as ‘baseless.’ As a sad codicil, Monday was the couple’s 13th anniversary.

Perez