Jack White’s wife of four years, the singer Olivia Jean, has filed for divorce from the rock star.
Jean, a fellow rocker under White’s label Third Man Records, married the White Stripes frontman onstage during a 2022 concert in their shared hometown of Detroit. She submitted divorce papers on June 3 in Nashville.
The court filing cites “irreconcilable differences and inappropriate marital conduct” as the reason Jean (full name Olivia Jean Markel) wants a divorce from White (born John Anthony White). Further details are not provided, and reps for Jean and White did not immediately return requests for comment on Tuesday (June 23).
Jean claims in the divorce papers that White should pay her alimony and continue providing her with health insurance coverage, since “she is dependent on husband’s income for her support.” She says all the property they jointly bought as a couple, including real estate and furniture, should be split up between them.
“Wife hopes that the parties will be able to enter into a written marital dissolution agreement, which makes adequate and sufficient provision for an equitable division of the parties’ assets and liabilities,” reads the filing. The couple share no children.
White was married twice before: first to White Stripes member Meg White from 1996 to 2000, then to model and singer Karen Elson from 2005 to 2013.
White both proposed to and married Jean on opening night of his Supply Chain Issues Tour in April 2022, for which Jean was an opening act. He popped the question during the White Stripes song “Hotel Yorba,” which features the lyrics “Let’s get married/ In a big cathedral by a priest/ ’cause if I’m the man that you love the most/ You could say ‘I do’ at least.” The duo exchanged rings minutes later onstage, with Third Man co-founder Ben Swank officiating.
“I asked her, ‘Do you want to get married now, or do you want to wait?’” White explained of the impromptu marriage ceremony during a 2022 appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “And she said. ‘No, right now, this is a great day!’”
Per Jean’s divorce papers, the marriage was made legally official the following December in Nashville.
