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Sarah Palin's Husband Todd Files For Divorce After 31 Years, Says It's 'Impossible To Live Together'

It looks like the marriage is all but over between former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and her husband of 31 years, Todd Palin.

According to court filings first spotted by Alaska media outlets on Monday, the 55-year-old Todd officially filed for divorce from Sarah, also 55, last Friday in an Anchorage courthouse.

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According to the Anchorage Daily News, Todd cited “incompatibility of temperament between the parties such that they find it impossible to live together as husband and wife,” on his divorce decree.

Todd is also seeking joint custody of their son, Trig, according to the court docs.

It’s unclear how long the couple has been separated. The last public event they were seen at together was back in May when they both attended daughter Piper‘s high school graduation.

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Sarah and Todd may already have been living separate lives at this time. / (c) Sarah Palin/Instagram

Sarah and Todd had been married for 31 years after eloping together in 1988. They have five children together.

The couple had survived some pretty rough waters. Back in 2011 a bombshell report in the National Enquirer claimed Todd had an extramarital affair with a massage therapist. Despite the mag’s sketchy reputation, they’ve been right quite a few times in the infidelity department, as in their outing of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards.

This scandal is partially credited with putting the coffin nail in Sarah’s chances at running for President in 2012. That, of course, opened the door for another populist, simplistic, reality TV-friendly candidate in 2016. One for whom the National Enquirer did several big favors…

Hmm…

Sarah — and the whole family, really — is best known for Senator John McCain‘s ill-fated 2008 presidential run against a relatively unknown Senator by the name of Barack Obama.

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No way this guy was losing to Sarah Palin. / (c) WENN

The Arizona Republican picked Palin, who at the time was just a two-year governor of Alaska but otherwise a complete unknown entity in the national political landscape, to be his running mate in the election.

Palin’s bizarre moments along the campaign trail — and Tina Fey‘s career-defining impression of the VP candidate — pretty much sealed the deal on the governor as far as pop culture and the history books were concerned. Except for in small right-wing media circles, her profile in the public eye has steadily declined since the election and its aftermath.

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She later became a reality TV star in her own right; her daughter, Bristol Palin, also joined the Teen Mom cast on MTV. But now, it appears her longtime marriage has come to an end, too.

We disagree with Sarah Palin on a lot of stuff (OK, like, practically everything) but nobody wishes ill will on someone like this. Here’s hoping her extended family can get through this tough time.

[Image via WENN]

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Sep 09, 2019 16:33pm PDT