FILE – Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala on May 7, 2018, in New York. The couple announced Friday they have finalized their divorce, ending their 13-year marriage. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
By LEANNE ITALIE and FRED GOODALL Associated Press
Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen have announced their divorce. The superstars who respectively reached the pinnacles of football and fashion each posted statements to Instagram on Friday saying they had finalized the end of their 13-year marriage. The announcement landed in the midst of Brady’s 23rd NFL season and just months after the seven-time Super Bowl champion changed his mind about retirement. Brady had long expressed a desire to spend more time with Bündchen and his three children, but later said he had “unfinished business” with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Records show the couple filed to end their marriage Glades County, Florida, a rural location near Lake Okeechobee.