Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello are divorcing after 7 years of marriage
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Esme Mazzeo
Jul 18, 2023, 06:04 IST
Joe Manganiello and Sofia Vergara.Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images
Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello are divorcing after seven years of marriage.
The "America's Got Talent" judge has been in Italy for the past week without Manganiello or her wedding ring.
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Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello are divorcing after seven years of marriage, the actors told Page Six in a statement.
"We have made the difficult decision to divorce. As two people that love and care for one another very much, we politely ask for respect of our privacy at this time as we navigate this new phase of our lives, they said.
Representatives for Manganiello and Vergara didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
The "America's Got Talent" judge has been celebrating her birthday in Italy for the past week with a group of friends, but the "Magic Mike" star is nowhere in the pictures she posted to Instagram.
The estranged couple met at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in May 2014 and Manganiello was caught "looking at her butt" in photos, he previously told People, describing it as "a moment of Zen." When she split up with her former fiancé, Manganiello asked her "Modern Family" costar Jesse Tyler Ferguson for her phone number and their relationship progressed quickly from there.
The "One Tree Hill" star told Men's Health in 2019 that he loved how "confident" Vergara was. "It takes a really strong and secure individual to handle the types of projects I've done. But when we're at home, we're opposites in all the best ways and we're compatible in all the best ways," he said.
For her upcoming Netflix project "Griselda," Vergara transformed into drug boss Griselda Blanco, who was known to be a "ruthless and violent" businesswoman, per Entertainment Weekly.
Manganiello was spotted in New Jersey on June 2 filming the upcoming movie "Nonnas" alongside Susan Sarandon, Drea de Matteo, and Vince Vaughn.
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