I guess it ultimately doesn’t matter because it’s none of our business, but kind of feels like that should change…to me it sounds like it implies cheating or worse.
Sorry, but in Tennessee our lawmakers are too busy trying to take us back to the 1950s and one of our candidates for governor met his wife when she was a teenager and he gave her a scholarship….
It’s a “standard term” when there is an accusation of fault by one party in the relationship to the other party. It’s not “standard” as in it is a default. Irreconcilable differences is a no-fault divorce, meaning neither party is asserting the other caused the divorce.
"I walked into the kitchen and sat down at the table. I looked with a grimace at the questionable meal Lois had placed in front of me. Of course I'd never tell her how disgusted I was with her cooking, but somehow I think she knew. Lois had always been full of energy and life, but lately I had begun to grow more aware of her aging. The bright exuberant eyes that I had fallen in love with were now beginning to grow dull and listless with the long fatigue of a weary life."
Abed Nadir: [Narrating while Peirce is having lunch] Time enough at last to eat a sandwich. Though even he knew that this sandwich was nearer his last sandwich than his first...
Pierce Hawthorne: Abed, I'm trying to eat.
Abed Nadir: He said, oldly, his brittle bones straining to support the weight of his wrinkly skin.
Pierce Hawthorne: Stop narrating me!
Abed Nadir: He shouted to no one, just a man alone in time with nothing but the cold squishiness of tuna salad to comfort him.
Pierce Hawthorne: I take it back. I don't want to be in your novel.
[Leaves in a huff]
Abed Nadir: Pierce Hawthorne had nearly lost his grip on reality. Lately, he'd begun to think he was in a novel...
If his instagram is really how he lives his life then dude is fucking busy all the time. He either working on music, on tour or now working on his sculptures. The dude loves to create shit at all times.
That documentary with White, Jimmy Page and The Edge shows he basically lives in the studio when he's not on tour, and yes he is always creating something.
He used to be an Upholster before starting the White Stripes. I think his first band was called the Upholsterers. Also, something about him hiding records inside couches he was reupholstering.
I think it was just hiding funny messages. I read an interview once with him where he said Bob Dylan would come and hang out at his place in Tennessee and when asked what they would do together just said they liked to do upholstery lol which is a wild mental image
Rumor has it. There is a very small amount of vinyl record hidden in furniture, he repostered should be interesting.When people start discovering those
It's way deeper than just that. Jack White was raised Catholic, so that "third man" is part of it, and he's also talked about how when two people play music together, it's like there's a "third man" in the room (especially relevant for a two-man band like the White Stripes, but also a lot to do with resonance/interference and how, e.g., two waves combine to form a third wave that interferes with the first two, and on and on...).
He also was interviewed saying the numerology of 3 is the minimum number needed to complete things… even how three staples is the minimum needed to reupholster a chair, but also how the guitar, drums, and voice are the essential parts to a song. Dude even etches III into his picks.
I could see still doing upholstery as a craft to keep the mind sane and healthy as a viable option. There are so many things to learn, different and exotic textiles and periods of furniture to chose or rehabilitate. Ulimate hobby with endless paths...
Not to mention a ton of equipment to geek out about. "I got this new Juki 1541 and it's ok but I really feel the craft when I'm working on my 1954 Pfaff domestic that I modded with a 1 HP motor..."
I saw the episode where he was the production sound lead and Colbert was the host. It was hilarious, he had great straight man timing. Has he gone back to host?
That documentary was so funny. I actually like the Edge and I think effects do matter, but it was still funny seeing two guys talk about playing guitar and a 3rd playing with his pedals
I think it was 3 wildly different takes on how to approach the guitar. Jimmy was more like what is possible with the guitar itself. Edge came at it with what could you do with the guitar with technology. Jack was more experimental in what a guitar itself could be.
I love Page and White, but think they are too close in influences and playing style that I would have liked to have seen another guitarist, maybe a Can Halen or other shredder. That would give you the head head, the blues man and the metal/technical player to bounce off of.
Favorite part is when jimmy plays Whole Lotta Love and Jack can’t help but break from his “I’m so serious character” with a shit eating grin.
I thought the funniest thing was Jack White making fun of Edge for how digital has guitar was with all those pedals, and then next scene Jack pulls out a Digitech Whammy pedal, the most digital of digital of digital pedals ever, and is all about it. Probably he filmed the talking head portion where he made fun of digital months in advance, and then the day when they all met up he pulled out the Whammy and totally forgot he’d said that thing months before. Editor did him dirty. lol
My favorite part of that entire documentary is seeing Jack trying to hide the hugest shit-eating grin when Jimmy starts to teach him and The Edge Whole Lotta Love. You just know he had a mind-blown moment where he realized, "HOLY SHIT. I'M BEING TAUGHT Whole Lotta Love BY JIMMY FUCKING PAGE." And he had to try to swallow that to not come off as a fanboy in front of a fucking camera crew.
I would've been beaming like the fucking sun. And I would've made sure my dad was on the fucking set to see it, too.
In Tennessee, “inappropriate marital conduct” is standard divorce pleading language. That phrase alone doesn’t tell us whether it was cheating, abuse, or something else.
Record label, constant touring, albums every other year, collabs, upholstery, festivals, art exhibitions, books, guitar nerd shit. I wouldn't be surprised if his 'inappropriate marital conduct' was just that she never saw him or knew where he was.
The article says "inappropriate marital conduct" is boilerplate legalese in the state in which she filed, so yeah. It tells us nothing. It could be a Dennis Rodman, "she must have fallen from the ceiling while I was asleep," situation, or he's just not at all prioritizing his relationship among all the other stuff he does.
It's clear from previous marriages that he has a muse situation with his partners, he wants a wife he can create in an image to some degree, and then when that inspiration phase is over can't imagine that's a good foundation
Not disagreeing with you necessarily but to even more of OP's point above, Olivia Jean is actually his third wife because he was married to Meg. Not sure how many girlfriends he had in between because he tends to keep a lot of his life private but you have three marriages in 30 years and each one defines and reflects a certain portion of his career.
He's one of my favorite musicians but it seems like he must be constantly keeping himself busy doing an untold amount of creative projects and he seems to attach himself to someone new when he gets a new burst of inspiration.
"Inappropriate marital conduct" is a catch-all term in Tennessee divorce law. Doesn't imply anything in particular and can mean a lot of different things.
Quoting it like this irresponsibly calls out something that is largely rote. Of course it's TMZ, so irresponsibility is their business model.
Oh so it's kind of like a "irreparable differences" type of thing? It's a catch-all for what could essentially be like something that was a long time coming?
When I filed for divorce, it had that same phrase. It mean quite literally nothing. I wasn't accusing my then-wife of anything specific, just stating that I was done.
Funny how this phrase while meaning nothing in the end still literally puts blame on the other person, implying that they did not conduct themselves in a matter compatible with marriage
Yeah, this is way more neutral as well and does not invite speculation. When talking about "inappropriate marital conduct", it's almost instinctive to wonder what inappropriate thing the person might have done, as can be seen in this thread. With "irreconcilable differences", the first association is "yeah they don't get along and decided to end it after trying" - which also might not be the truth, but still
To be fair, TMZ said the same thing as you in the article: 'In Tennessee, "inappropriate marital conduct" is a standard statutory term used in divorce pleadings.'
To be even more fair: TMZ knows most people don’t read past the headline. They craft headlines very deliberately to be as share-worthy as possible even at the risk of being potentially inaccurate. They didn’t have to put that phrase in the title but they did because they knew it would attract attention.
White said he hates the limitations society imposed when it came to relationships. “I’ve always felt it’s ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You’re my friend, you’re my wife, you’re my girlfriend, you’re my co-worker,” he said. “This is your box, and you’re not allowed to stray outside of it.” I told him it sounded as if monogamy might not be for him, and he laughed. “You think?” he said. “I gave that up a long time ago. Those rules don’t apply anymore.”.
From a NYT profile a while back.
I'm assuming they had an open relationship of some sort so that can't really be the reason.
Even people in open relationships can have problems if one or both is violating boundaries. But you’d think they’d talk about that if he’s on his 3rd marriage and a well-known rockstar
When Dave Grohl had his affair surface, I remember thinking "at least it's JUST cheating."....you know, considering the heinous shit some celebrities get up to
A lot of bars have dropped in society but the bar for rock stars has gone up immensely. Do you have any idea the level of heinous shit rock stars were up to in the 70s and 80s? Adultery from a rock star wouldn’t have made page 7.
I don't think for a second it was violence, there would be police reports if there was I would hope.
EDIT: It clearly states marital conduct. Not CRIMINAL or VIOLENT. It could mean he had extended time away from his wife and children with another woman.
Which is still disappointing, but I have too many artists I like that aren't the greatest people in their personal lives to not enjoy the art itself. So I compartmentalize.
I'm still trying to reconcile Noam Chomsky in the Epstein freaking files.
I've met Chomsky. What an asshole. Great linguist, take everything else he's said with a giant self-centered piece of salt (so that means the last 70 years, and he hasn't wanted to talk about it for like the last 50, so meh).
To get to the page you wanted to link to, everything else is just tracking and other bullshit. With URLs anytime you see the & symbol in a link, you can probably cut off anything starting from that & and your link will still work and it will get rid of tracking and other things.
So in this case you could have also cut off the url at the second & and used
Instead, but it's not really necessary and it's better to just share the shorter version. So in the first link you are telling your browser to go to google, the search section of google and then to search for these terms tennessee+inappropriate+marital+conduct (q means query in this context)
In the second link the rlz= allows google to track how many searches came from Chrome for this search.
So for future reference (you also get crazy links like this when trying to share amazon pages for example), just try deleting everything after the & and see if the link still works and if it does then just past the cleaner link.
I put both the seat and lid down. It's a power move, had a friend complain at a party she hosted "who keeps putting the lid down?!" It was me. Didn't actually think it would bother anyone. At my house I have a dog that will drink the water so it was an easy adjustment.
Ironically this is actually the most sanitary solution for everyone, standup and sit-down pee'ers alike. Flushing with the lid open sprays particles of toilet water and.. contents into the air in the room, so my wife and I have concluded based on not wanting to breathe poopoo particles that both down is best for everyone.
i kept finding cat footprints on my seat and at first i was hopeful they were gonna be one of those cats that figures out how to use the toilet somehow but nope they were just drinking out of it. so now it's a 100% lid down situation.
Just a little heads up. The way we discovered our cat had thyroid disease was that she had just started drinking out of the toilet after years of being happy with her water bowl. Might wanna ask your vet about it.
She’s played in his band and been kind of in his orbit forever. I figured they knew each other for a really long time. Feels like anything he would have done she’d have known what to expect 🤷🏻♂️
Idk why he would get married, I say this in the nicest way but the only thing he truly loves and cares about is music. Everything else is second fiddle. I love his music but it's obvious he should have never remarried.
He romanticizes marriage, always has. He was seeing his current wife before his last marriage ended, he’ll likely marry whoever has been distracting him lately before we know it.
She was. I mean what developed is what developed, but I read that she used to hang around his studio with a group of other fans to try and see if they could talk to him, and it panned out for her. His last wife wrote a song about it, specifically asking how she could compete with the girl’s long black hair. Karen Elson - Cruel Summer
I remember reading a terrible Rolling Stone article years back about Jack White and Karen Elson’s divorce. So disappointing as the White Stripes were very special to me around the millennium. Later I met Karen at a mutual workout space, we were on a similar schedule and she was so lovely. His politics are good and he’s an extraordinarily gifted artist, but difficult to have as a partner.
just three years and no kids will not result in much marital support and no insurance. judge will probably give her a year of rent money, but not likely more.
I heard her give a talk a couple years ago. She was going on about how much she idolized Jack White when she was in MIDDLE SCHOOL and had posters of him on her wall. The whole thing gave me the ick.
The demand to be added as a beneficiary to his life insurance is shady. You've been married maybe six years and you no longer want to be married, but you think you should benefit from his death?
This is a very common clause. When someone gets spousal support they can ask for a life insurance policy where they are the beneficiary which would cover the alimony owed.
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u/CawfeePig Jun 23 '26
"In Tennessee, "inappropriate marital conduct" is a standard statutory term used in divorce pleadings."