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Friday, January 22, 2010 - 9:42 PM
The eight-year marriage of movie stars Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger
produced a great deal of tabloid coverage, as well as a daughter,
Ireland, born in 1995. Their 2002 divorce, not surprisingly, led to
extensive press coverage and focused on Ireland. From their December
2000 separation, Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire maintained that Basinger was obstructing his
relationship with Ireland and attempting to turn her against him, while
Basinger's representatives maintained that Baldwin's irrational bursts of temper
were the real danger to his relationship with Ireland. An eight-year,
on-again-off-again legal battle over the terms of Baldwin's visitation
rights reportedly cost Basinger and Baldwin a combined $2.5 million in
legal fees and expenses, punctuated in 2007 by the leak of a profane cell phone message
left by Baldwin for Ireland after she failed to take a scheduled phone
call from him. Baldwin also embarked on a lengthy public relations
campaign in an attempt to mitigate the damage to his image, including
the publication of A Promise to Ourselves, his own account of
the legal battle for visitation rights and the extent to which he
believed the family legal system to be stacked against fathers.
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