After 34 years of marriage Carlos Santana and his wife have decided to part ways.
If you read Deborah Santana’s 2005 memoir “Space Between the Stars” you might have seen this coming. In fact, you might have wondered how the marriage survived as long as it did. In her book, Deborah described her award-winning guitarist husband as being “repeatedly unfaithful.”
Apparently, she had enough because according to court documents filed last week, Deborah is asking a judge to dissolve the couple’s marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.
For his part, Carlos Santana, admitted to making mistakes in his marriage.
“I sincerely apologized to her and to my kids when I wasn’t in my right mind and did something hurtful,” Carlos Santana said after the memoir was published. “It has helped me become more humble and to try harder to be the man she wants me to be.”
A case of too little too late? Who knows? But, what might make this divorce more complicated (at least financially) is the fact that the Santana’s are also business partners. They created the Milagro Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports underprivileged children. Plus, earlier this year, they announced plans to create three Mexican restaurants in the San Francisco Bay area named Maria, Maria after one of Carlos Santana’s Grammy-winning songs.
We’ll just have to see how ugly this celebrity split gets…
Meanwhile, Stephen Colbert was also the recipient of some bad news this week.
The Comedy Central talk-show host had his White House dreams squashed by South Carolina Democrats yesterday.
Colbert’s fanciful presidential bid has been making headlines around the country for the past few weeks. Colbert, who poses as a conservative talk-show host on the cable network, filed to get on the ballot as a Democratic candidate in his native South Carolina. He even went as far as paying the $2,500 filing fee. And even more amazingly, he got top party officials to discuss his mock run. After about 40 minutes of discussion, the executive council voted 13-3 to keep the host of “The Colbert Report” off the ballot.
“He’s really trying to use South Carolina Democrats as suckers so he can further a comedy routine,” said Waring Howe, a member of the executive council. And Colbert “serves to detract from the serious candidates on the ballot.”
Duh! Ya think that’s his goal?
You’ll recall that when Colbert announced his candidacy on his show last month, he said he would run only in this key primary state and do so as a Democrat and a Republican – so he could lose twice.