Lisa Bonet has finally filed to divorce her estranged husband Jason Momoa, more than three years after they split.
Court documents submitted by the 56-year-old Cosby Show actress revealed that she and Jason, 44, have been separated since October of 2020, which was just two months after he made a show of restoring her first car as a gift to her.
The couple formally announced their split in January 2022 after four years of marriage and 16 years together but insisted that the ‘love between them carried on’.
While many Hollywood divorces often turn into dramatic spectacles, Lisa and Jason have remained close, vowing to remain a ‘family’ and amicably co-parent their children.
So where did it all go wrong for Lisa and Jason? We take a look back at their split.
Lisa Bonet has finally filed to divorce her estranged husband Jason Momoa , more than three years after they split (pictured in 2010)
Court documents submitted by the 56-year-old Cosby Show actress revealed that she and Jason, 44, have been separated since October of 2020 (pictured February 2020)
The couple formally announced their split in January 2022 after four years of marriage and 16 years together but insisted that the ‘love between them carried on’
Jason and Lisa first met in 2004, with the A Different World star recalling meeting her future husband at a jazz club to Porter magazine.
She confessed: ‘I can’t say it was full-on from the moment we saw each other, but we have been together from the day that we met,’ she shared.
Following their club meet-up, the two went to a café for some grits and Guinness, which solidified their connection.
‘In that moment, love came and it came big, and he did not run as I think a lot of men do,’ Lisa continued. ‘He basically picked me up and threw me over his shoulder, caveman style!’
Three years later in 2007, the couple welcomed their first child together, a daughter named Lola Iolani Momoa, now 16.
It was the second child for Lisa, who also shares her adult daughter Zoë Kravitz, 35, with her ex-husband Lenny Kravitz, who maintains a friendship with both Jason and Lisa.
The following year, Jason and Lisa welcomed their second child, a son named Nakoa-Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha, who is now 15.
‘Nakoa [means] warrior… Mana [means] strength/spirit, Kaua [means] rain, po [means] dark,’ Lisa shared after her son’s birth. ‘The [first] name was always going to be Nakoa-Wolf.’
In 2014 the pair collaborated on a project for the first time, with Jason making his directorial debut in the film Road To Paloma, which he also starred in and co-wrote. Lisa was cast as his love interest.
Lisa also joined her future husband that year with a recurring role on his series The Red Road.
Jason and Lisa are looking to share joint physical and legal custody of their two children, Lola, 16, and Nakoa-Wolf, 15 (pictured with Jason’s mother Coni in 2018)
After a decade of rumours, Jason and Lisa finally tied the knot in October 2017 in a low-key wedding held at their house in Topanga, California.
He later joked that he had manifested the union, telling The Late Late Show host James Corden: ‘Ever since I was, like, eight years old and I saw her on the TV and I was like, “Mommy, I want that one.”
‘I’m like, “I’m gonna stalk you for the rest of my life, and I’m gonna get you.” I am a full-fledged stalker. I didn’t tell her that ’til we had two babies. Otherwise it’d be creepy.’
In August 2020 Jason pulled out all the stops with a romantic gesture for Lisa in which he restored her 1965 Mustang, which was her first car that she purchased when she was only 17.
‘I never thought it would look like this,’ Jason said in a YouTube video documenting his wife’s delight at her surprise gift.
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‘To be in this passenger’s seat with my wife here and surprise her and our babies in the back, riding in her first car from when she was 17? I’m excited to see her face.’
It has since emerged that the couple split just two months later.
They formally announced their separation in January 2022, sharing the statement: #We have all felt the squeeze and changes of these transformational times… A revolution is unfolding and our family is of no exception… feeling and growing from the seismic shifts occurring.
‘And so we share our Family news that we are parting ways in marriage.’
The couple explained in their statement that they weren’t announcing their separation ‘because we think it’s newsworthy, but so that as we go about our lives we may do so with dignity and honesty.’
‘The love between us carries on, evolving in ways it wishes to be known and lived. We free each other to be who we are learning to become…’ they continued.
‘Our devotion unwavering to this sacred life & our Children,’ they concluded. ‘Teaching our Children What’s possible ~ Living the Prayer.
‘May Love Prevail,’ they added, signing off as ‘J & L.’
Despite going their separate ways romantically, the exes have remained friends ever since, with an insider telling People that the former power couple have remained ‘close’.
At the time of their breakup, a source noted that a contributing factor to their brief separation was that the father-of-two and Ambulance actress are ‘just very different people.’
‘They love each other very much having dated quietly for some time before it became public,’ an insider told People after they initially called it quits. ‘They are in different life stages.’
In 2022, Jason insisted Lisa is ‘still family’.
Lisa, who also shares her adult daughter Zoë Kravitz, 35, with her ex-husband Lenny Kravitz, who maintains a friendship with both Jason and Lisa (pictured in 2010)
Attending the premiere of stepdaughter Zoe’s Batwoman premiere, he said: ‘Lisa couldn’t be here so we’re representing, me and the babies. We’re very excited to just be here… It’s still family, you know?’
The pair are now looking to share joint physical and legal custody of their two children.
Lisa also indicated in her documents that she’s not seeking spousal support from Jason, and she suggested that he wasn’t looking for payments from her either.
In the filing, the actress wrote that the division of their assets and properties are ‘agreed between the parties,’ suggesting that they may have a prenuptial agreement in place to guide the dissolution of their marriage.
