Did Monica Bellucci & Vincent Cassel separate after 14 years of marriage?

I’m not sure how true this story is. The source, a Brazilian newspaper called Jornal O Globo, has run with an insider tip which claims Italian actress Monica Bellucci and French actor Vincent Cassell have separated after 14 years of marriage. The couple have two children together and may have an open marriage. Or at least, the marriage is open on Vincent’s end, and Monica went along with it because she thought it was “ridiculous” to expect her husband not to sleep with other women when they apart for months at a time.

If this story is true, then maybe Monica and Vincent’s arrangement has run its course. Maybe Monica got tired of keeping up the pretenses of a marriage while Vincent was sleeping with other chicks. Here’s the scoop from what I think is the celebrity offshoot of the newspaper, Ego Globo. They include the detail that Monica fled the couple’s mansion in Rio and returned to France without Vincent. Uh-oh:

Actors Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci parted, reports the newspaper “O Globo”. Italian actress left the mansion in Alto Gavea in Rio’s South Zone, and returned to France with her daughters Deva and Laonie.

According to the newspaper, before leaving, Monica dismissed most employees of the house, who is the lawyer Jorge Hilario Gouvea Vieira. Cassel still living in Rio and has frequented the bars of Baixo Gavea.

Cassel and Bellucci moved to Rio at the end of last year and adopted the carioca lifestyle. The couple enjoyed the carnival the city this year and was seen several times walking the streets in stripped-down style. They were married for 14 years.

[From Ego-Globo]

So what are we to make of this report? Perhaps Monica tired of having her husband bed randoms while she took care of their children, or perhaps Vincent fell down on one of her stated criteria for marriage, “loyalty” and/or “elegance.” Or maybe Vincent decided he wanted to be with one of his side pieces, who obviously would be a lot less stressful to deal with and wouldn’t exist with all the complications of a “nagging” wife. God, I hate it when dudes think that their side pieces will be better life companions than their wives. It never turns out that way when the new ones inevitably expect them to take out the trash too. The horror!

Anyway, I hope this story isn’t true — mostly because I’d hate to see a family break up, but if it is true, then Vincent is a damn fool.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet

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