Jennifer Murray Sues Bill Murray For Divorce

In Groundhog Day, Bill Murray relived the same day, over and over and over again. If he thought that day sucked, well, this one isn’t much better.

His wife, Jennifer Butler Murray, is suing him for divorce in South Carolina after 10 years of marriage. She is seeking to dissolve her union to due Bill Murray’s drug addiction, physical abuse, adultery and abandonment.

Jennifer Murray also requested a restraining order against him
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A lawyer for Bill Murray says the actor is deeply saddened by the breakup and is committed to the best interests of the couple’s four children.

According to Jennifer Murray, Bill’s alcohol, marijuana and sex addictions were among the reasons she felt forced to move to a new home in 2006 with their four young children. The filing adds that Bill Murray once “hit his wife in the face and then told her she was ‘lucky he didn’t kill her.’”

The Murrays signed a prenuptial agreement in which Bill would pay his wife $7 million in a divorce, should that event take place, but she has asked the court to determine whether the agreement is still valid.

Published 5/29/08 by

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