Richard Adams's blogAl GoreAl and Tipper Gore announce separation
Al Gore and his wife Tipper announce in email to friends that they have agreed to separate after 40 years of marriageAl Gore, the Nobel peace prize winner and former US Vice President, and his wife Tipper, have told friends that the couple are separating after 40 years of marriage.
The couple sent a message to friends with the subject line: "Email from Al and Tipper Gore", with copies obtained by the Associated Press and Politico. The text of the email read:
"We are announcing today that after a great deal of thought and discussion, we have decided to separate.
"This is very much a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration. We ask for respect for our privacy and that of our family, and we do not intend to comment further."
A spokesperson for the Gores confirmed to AP that the email came from the couple.
The pair met at Al Gore's high school senior prom in 1965, and were married in May 1970 at the National Cathedral in Washington DC. The couple have four children.
After serving for eight years as Bill Clinton's vice president, Al Gore was nominated as the Democratic party's presidential candidate in 2000. During the party's national convention in Los Angeles that year, the couple engaged in a famously passionate kiss on stage.
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