The divorce of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban is perhaps the most boring split in Hollywood history, with no charges of bad behavior.
Divorce documents also state that neither will pay alimony or spousal support, all properties and business assets remain separate, and each party is responsible for their own debts.
All household furnishings, artwork, vehicles and other personal belongings collected over their 19-year marriage have already been divided, even down to airline and credit card points.
“It’s one of the cleanest financial settlements we’ve seen from a celebrity couple,” said Gideon Alper, estate and family attorney at Alper Law. “No ongoing payments, no joint assets and no courtroom battle — just a blueprint for moving on.”
According to documents filed in Tennessee, the former couple have agreed on a plan that sees Kidman serving as the primary parent to daughters Sunday, 17, and Faith, 14. The girls will live with Kidman for 306 days a year, while Urban is allocated the remaining 59.
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Patricia Hearst was honored at a benefit for California’s Hearst Castle, the historic estate built by her grandfather, publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst, in San Simeon on the central coast.
Director John Waters, who cast Hearst in five of his films, drove up from Los Angeles for the gala.
“I said, ‘It’s great I don’t have to give a speech,’” he told me.
But Waters was dragged up to address other guests such as “Sex and the City” author Candace Bushnell, photographer Patrick McMullan, publicist R. Couri Hay, New York real estate mogul Janna Bullock, and Patricia’s model daughter Lydia Hearst and her husband, Chris Hardwick.
Waters doesn’t “even know” what he said when he spoke, but the audience loved it.
“Patricia looked very happy, and that’s what I like to see,” he said.
Patricia was known as Patty when she was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974 and forced to rob banks for the terrorists.
She now prefers to be called Patricia, but people still call her Patty.
“She knows it’s a losing battle,” Waters said.
Joe Tobin, a member of the Hearst Castle Preservation Foundation’s board of directors, was sitting next to Hearst and revealed, “My family owned the [Hibernia] bank that she robbed.”
The foundation’s annual benefit raises funds for the maintenance and restoration of the estate, which was donated to California in 1958. The castle, now a museum, draws nearly a million visitors each year.
Patricia’s sister Anne Hearst McInerney, the chair of the foundation, called their grandfather “an exceptional collector” and said “it’s an honor to help restore and preserve the over 50,000 works of art and antiquities at the castle for the public to enjoy.”
Anne’s author husband, Jay McInerney, whose new novel “See You on the Other Side” is coming out in April, said the weekend’s annual wine tasting was postponed by several hours.
“In years past, everyone was too hungover to attend,” he laughed.
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Johnny Depp, in a dapper straw hat, sat front row alongside Jennifer Lawrence, Charlize Theron, Anya Taylor-Joy, Cornelia Guest and architect Peter Marino at designer Jonathan Anderson’s debut womenswear show for Dior in Paris.
The night before, leather-clad Marino — who just oversaw a five-year renovation of the Dior store on E 57th St. — chaired a 10th anniversary gala for the Friends of the Domaine de Chantilly.
The historic chateau outside of Paris, originally built in 1358, is open to the public for tours throughout the year.
Prince Amyn Aga Khan, the chairman of the organization that raises funds to restore the chateau, its gardens and works of art, greeted the guests.
Other New Yorkers on hand were arts patrons Barbara Tober, Marina Kellen French, Eugenia Bullock, Curtis Clarizio, Jessica Nicholls, Isabelle Marino and Tom Knapp.
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The National Council of Negro Women and NY1’s Cheryl Wills hosted a lively fireside chat with the New York City mayoral candidates at the Black Spectrum Theatre in Jamaica, Queens.
Zohran Mamdani and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo were no-shows to the Wednesday event, but biotech entrepreneur Joseph Hernandez, an independent endorsed by both the Reform Party and the Bodega and Small Business Group, was there with conservatives Curtis Sliwa and Irene Estrada.
Hernandez got heated at times and drew pointed questions from the moderators and audience, who all had strong opinions.
“I’m running because I believe in citizen leadership: the idea that real people, not lifelong politicians, should step up when the moment demands it,” Hernandez said. “People with real-world experience. People who understand what it means to struggle, to build and to dream.”
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The Gates Foundation of Bill and Melinda Gates awarded a full four-year college scholarship to 18-year-old designer Sir Darius Brown, the founder of Beaux & Paws.
Brown’s charity creates bow ties for shelter animals to help them look even more adorable in hopes of finding them permanent homes.
“My goal is to have a TV show focused on shelter dogs and cats,” the Morehouse College freshman said. “I’m also working on a book of adoption stories. On the weekends, I make and donate Wag Bags with treats, toys, collars and leashes.”
Dog-loving designer Andrea Stark will bring Brown to the Tri-County Animal Rescue’s Peppermint Bark & Brunch on Nov. 23 at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla. Brown will “dress” all the adoptable dogs in his handmade ties.
Stark talked up the brunch with Sharon Bush, Iris Dankner, Meera Gandhi and Quest Magazine’s Chris Meigher at Christofle’s 57th St. boutique.
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Waze has been using celebrity voices for years on its GPS navigation app.
Drivers can get directions in the dulcet tones of Tom Hardy, Christina Aguilera, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin Hart and Shaquille O’Neal, to name a few.
Venture capitalist Mark Fung drives around Manhattan with tennis legend Roger Federer barking out turns. When Fung’s not sure if he’s parked correctly, Federer says, “It’s IN!”
Fung says he passed on the measured voice of Morgan Freeman.
Having grown up on the ‘70s children’s series “The Electric Company,” in which Freeman starred, Fung said he realized the Oscar winner “wouldn’t finish the syllables fast enough for me to make upcoming turns in time.”
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Bill Gates, Drew Barrymore, Cynthia Nixon, Bernie Sanders and a long list of Bollywood stars including Tamannaah Bhatia have all enjoyed the Indian cuisine at Utsav, the only restaurant in Manhattan serving authentic Bengali dishes.
Restaurateur Nandita Khanna’s popular hot spot, located at 46th and Sixth Ave., is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month.
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In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Southampton Arts Center opened an exhibition of Latin American works from the 1950s to the present.
The show, curated by Estrellita Brodsky, features photography, sculpture and prints from Martine Gutierrez’s series “Indigenous Woman” as well as a selection of Andy Warhol’s work.
The exhibition runs through Dec. 28.
