💍 Jenna Dewan and Channing Tatum's divorce finalized in 2019

Every date is on record: wedding, split, filing, decree. Not on record: how the money, Magic Mike included, was divided. 🔒

By , editor at large · Desk editor Gustavs Ērkšķis-Kreicbergs · · 2 min read

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By the numbers

  • 19 mofrom first to latest entry on recordApr 2018 to Nov 2019, 3 dated entries in the file
  • 8receipts behind this story6 news reports, 2 statements, 2009 to 2019

Counted by MrScandal from the receipts, the Files and our rankings.

The record, in order

01

2006 - Step Up casts them together

Jenna Dewan and Channing Tatum are cast opposite each other in the 2006 dance film Step Up and begin dating shortly after, People reported.

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02

July 11, 2009 - the wedding

Dewan and Tatum, engaged since September 2008, marry at a private Malibu estate - the bride in a Reem Acra gown, the groom in Giorgio Armani, before 220 guests - a rep for the couple confirmed to People.

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03

2012 - the Magic Mike years

Tatum stars as Mike in Magic Mike, which opens in 2012 and which he finances with director Steven Soderbergh and executive-produces with Reid Carolin through his company Iron Horse Productions, per Channing Tatum Unwrapped. A 2010 Relativity Media deal had named Dewan a development partner in the shingle Tatum ran with Carolin, Variety reported. A sequel, Magic Mike XXL, followed.

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04

May 2013 - a daughter

The couple's only child together, a daughter named Everly, is born in London, Us Weekly reported in June 2013.

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05

April 2, 2018 - the separation

Dewan and Tatum announce they are separating in a joint statement, saying there are "no secrets nor salacious events" behind the decision, People and CNN reported.

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06

October 2018 - the filing

Dewan files for divorce in Los Angeles, requesting child and spousal support and asking to have her name restored; both agree to joint legal and physical custody of Everly, E! News reported on Oct. 26, 2018, citing documents it obtained. Her lawyer was Samantha Spector.

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07

November 2019 - the decree

A judge grants the divorce and the former couple become legally single, TMZ reported, after they filed court papers asking for the decree while they continued to settle property and custody; the judgment became final that week.

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They wanted to be single in the eyes of the law before the rest was settled, TMZ reported - both had moved on, and a clean decree makes remarrying simpler. So every date lines up, and the one figure everyone reaches for - what the marriage, Magic Mike included, was worth on paper - stays off it: the property settlement came after the decree, and out of public view. Tidy timeline, blank ledger where the money sits.

The Jenna Dewan file

Last entry Nov 2019
  1. Ruled

    The Dewan-Tatum divorce was finalized; TMZ reported on November 20, 2019 that the judgment had become final that week. This story

  2. Filed

    Dewan filed for divorce from Tatum in a Los Angeles court; E! News reported it on October 26, 2018. The record gives no exact filing date. This story

  3. Reported

    Jenna Dewan and Channing Tatum announced they were separating. This story

On file: The Jenna Dewan file

The Ledger

On the record

  • Dewan and Tatum married July 11, 2009, in Malibu, announced their separation on April 2, 2018, and had the divorce made final in November 2019.
  • Dewan filed in Los Angeles in October 2018, seeking child and spousal support and her name restored; both agreed to joint custody of Everly, E! News reported.
  • Tatum starred in Magic Mike (2012), which he financed with Steven Soderbergh and produced with Reid Carolin through Iron Horse Productions.

Still rumour

  • How the couple split earnings from Magic Mike or any other asset was never made public; TMZ reported the decree came before the property settlement was finished.
  • The daughter's exact birth date: reports placed it in London in May 2013 but differ on the day, and no source gives her full name.
  • No net-worth or Magic Mike earnings figure for either of them is on the record.

That's the record. The rest is rumour. - Mr Scandal

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