Tom Vitale, the ex-husband of Valerie Bertinelli, has claimed spousal support from the actress following their 11-year split. People reports that the 58-year-old has filed a petition for spousal support against Bertinelli on June 2 in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Vitale, a financial expert, also requested the court to prevent Valerie Bertinelli from claiming spousal support and to review the prenuptial agreement they signed in December 2010, before their wedding in 2011.
According to court documents, the prenuptial agreement remains in effect and enforceable.
Valerie Bertinelli asserted irreconcilable differences in her divorce from Tom Vitale
After filing for separation in November 2021, the Wilderness Love actress filed for divorce from Vitale in May 2022, alleging “irreconcilable differences.”
Following years of dating, the actress from Hot in Cleveland wed Vitale on December 31, 2011, in Malibu, California. Bertinelli told People in January 2011 that she felt “happier than ever” after marrying Vitale. She declared:
“I could have lived with Tom for the rest of my life without being married, but I wanted to call him my husband’ so that I could express to others I care about how I felt about him.”
Bertinelli was married to the late rock legend Eddie Van Halen from 1981 until 2007, and the couple had a 31-year-old son who is also a musician. The iconic guitarist passed away in October 2020 at the age of 65, following a protracted struggle with cancer and a stroke.
Valerie Bertinelli wrote in her recently published book Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today about her final moments with the deceased rock musician and her kid.
“‘I love you,’ Ed tells Wolfie and me, and those are the last words we speak to him before he stops breathing,”
In January, Bertinelli told a magazine that her separation from Vitale had nothing to do with her love for the late rocker and that they had just “grown apart.”
It has nothing to do with how I feel about Ed. I am confident that Tom feels the same way about me.
In her autobiography, Bertinelli describes her divorce from Vitale as arduous and convoluted.
We have gone from the common interests that brought us together and found that our differences cannot be resolved. He is a pleasant man who faces many of the same challenges as I do: What can he do to add meaning and purpose to his life?
Where will he discover happiness? What is he concerned with? What will he do differently going forward? The paths that we thought we were on changed.”
Valerie Bertinelli began writing the book just a few weeks after Eddie Van Halen’s cancer-related passing on October 6, 2020.
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