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What Happened? Forest Whitaker Files For Divorce After 22 Years Of Marriage

The couple have two children together.

Forest Whitaker and his wife are calling it quits after over 20 years of marriage.

According to court documents obtained by TMZ, the actor and Keisha Nash Whitaker are splitting and the specific reason is currently unknown. The two married in 1996 and have three daughters together who are now adults.

What is known is that Forest cites "irreconcilable differences" in his divorce petition. Forest and Keisha met in 1994 on the set of “Blown Away” and began dating shortly after.

The couple married in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Whitaker recently listed their family’s Hollywood Hills home for $6 million. They originally purchased the two-home compound in 2003 for $2 million.

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