Sadie Frost given OK to divorce Jude Law

[TexasStooge]

LONDON (AP) — Actress Sadie Frost was granted her petition Wednesday for divorce from Oscar-nominated actor Jude Law. Frost's petition was in a list of 30 cases that a district judge approved in a brief hearing at the London divorce courts.

The decree nisi, or interim divorce, was granted 10 months after Frost and her 30-year-old former husband split up on the grounds of his alleged unreasonable behavior.

Law didn't contest the divorce proceedings. A decree nisi is not a final divorce order, but it is expected to be finalized within days.

Frost, 35, and Law, who have three children, were married in 1997.

In court documents made public after the hearing, Frost said Law's behavior after the birth of their third child, Rudy, "increased the effect of postnatal depression leading me to have to take treatment three times."

In a question-and-answer-style affidavit in support of the divorce petition, Frost also replied "no" when asked if Law's behavior was continuing. She gave the date of the final incident of unreasonable behavior as January 2003.

The couple's publicist announced in January that Frost had been admitted to a London clinic suffering from severe postnatal depression.

In a statement issued at the time, Law said that his wife was "feeling very blue" after Rudy was born prematurely. The actor flew back to London from a film set in Los Angeles to look after the couple's two other children, son Rafferty and daughter Iris.

The couple's apparent tribulations were newspaper fodder for the next few months, and in an August statement, Frost said that she had "very reluctantly" decided her marriage was over.

There was no comment from Frost or Law on Wednesday.

Law, 30, was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Anthony Minghella's film "The Talented Mr. Ripley." He recently worked with the filmmaker on the as-yet-unreleased "Cold Mountain," starring with Nicole Kidman.

Kidman has accepted public apologies and undisclosed damages from British tabloids the Daily Mail and The Sun to settle libel suits against the newspapers, which suggested she had conducted an adulterous affair with Law.

Frost appeared in "Bram Stoker's Dracula" in 1992, but her acting career has not matched the success of her husband's in Hollywood. She is well known in Britain for a line of designer underwear.