Alabama First Lady Dianne Bentley Friday filed for divorce, seeking to end her 50-year marriage to Gov. Robert Bentley.
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Dianne Bentley wants the courts to award her the real properties acquired during their marriage, most notably their home.
The complaint, filed in the Bentley’s home county of Tuscaloosa, says the couple has not lived together since January and that they were suffering from “a conflict of personalities which destroys the legitimate aims of matrimony”.
In 1978, then-First Lady Cornelia Wallace moved out of the Governor’s Mansion in Montgomery and divorced the governor. The governor spoke briefly with reporters about an upcoming special session on the state’s budget crisis, but didn’t mention the divorce, the Decatur Daily reported.
She filed court documents Friday morning before making an appearance with her husband.
The office for the 72-year-old Robert Bentley didn’t respond to an immediate request for comment. Dianne Bentley often served as his driver, accompanying him around the state, during the early days of the initially underfunded campaign.
The Bentleys have been married since 1965 and have four adult sons.
The couple met at the University of Alabama, when Bentley, a dermatologist, was in his first year of medical school.
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The couple had been married for fifty years in July.
