Shania Twain & Mutt Lange Separating

[johnm1120]

Normally stories would go in the artist's tpic, but for those who don't go into those threads for various reasons, I figured this story was big enough.

Country star Shania Twain, husband splitting up
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TORONTO - Shania Twain and husband-producer Robert "Mutt" Lange are splitting up after 14 years of marriage. The 42-year-old Canadian country superstar and 59-year-old Lange married in 1993 and have a 6-year-old son named Eja. Her publicist provided no further details Thursday about the couple's breakup.

Lange and Twain, best known for her hits "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" and "You're Still the One," recently opened a hiking trail on their property in New Zealand, fulfilling a pact designed to allay fears that wealthy foreigners were snapping up and sealing off the country's prime real estate.

Lange produced three of Twain's albums: 1995's "The Woman in Me," 1997's "Come on Over" and 2002's "Up!"

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Looks like he's not still the one :(

[**βécky**™]

:o :o :o :'( :( :o
NOOOOOOOOOO
This is really sad, But i guess things didnt work out.
I really really hope that he will still produce her next album.

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Superstar Shania Twain splitting up with husband



Country music star Shania Twain, of Timmins, Ont. (CPimages '05/Jonathan Hayward)


Updated: Thu May. 15 2008 5:29:10 PM

The Canadian Press

Toronto — She was a small-town beauty who overcame a tragic childhood to pursue her dream of country music stardom. He was a rock producer 17 years her senior whose Midas touch took her to the top of the charts.

The whirlwind romance of Shania Twain, 42, and Robert (Mutt) Lange, 59, was the stuff of fairy tales. But on Thursday, the celebrity pair announced they were splitting after 14 years of marriage.

The famously reclusive couple -- who have a six-year-old son, Eja -- made the announcement through their publicist.

"This is a private matter and there will be no further comment at this time,'' Tyson Parker of Universal Music Canada said in a statement.

Lange -- the uber-producer behind Def Leppard, AC/DC, Foreigner, the Cars and Bryan Adams -- approached Twain in the early 1990s after she released a self-titled debut.

They formed a professional partnership that quickly blossomed into a full-fledged romance, marrying in 1993 just six months after they met. Their age difference set tongues wagging, so much so that they penned their monster hit, "You're Still the One,'' as an ode to their union.

Their powerhouse musical partnership saw Twain became one of the world's most popular female pop singers, captivating fans with her unique sound and her rags-to-riches story.

She was born Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ont., and raised in Timmins, Ont., where she earned money by singing in local clubs at the age of eight to support her family. Later, Twain struggled to look after her younger siblings after her parents died in a 1987 car crash.

Her breakthrough came when Lange produced her second disc, 1995's "The Woman in Me,'' which spawned her first Number One single, "Any Man of Mine.''

Shania showed off, Lange shunned spotlight

Twain's bare midriff and rock-tinged sound shook the staid world of country music, but audiences were clearly captivated. The singer went on to rack up a string of hits including, "You're Still the One,'' "That Don't Impress Me Much'' and "Man! I Feel Like a Woman.'' Other accolades included Grammys, Junos, country music and songwriter awards.

While Twain's good looks were made for magazine covers and music videos, Lange eschewed the spotlight. He has not granted an interview in decades and reportedly buys photos of himself to restrict their use.

News of the split Thursday sent fans buzzing online with speculation, with several remarking over the age difference between the pair.

"This makes me really sad,'' said one fan, identified as SheriBaby. "Especially because they have a young child...and they wrote all of her love songs together, for each other.''

They divided their time between New Zealand and Switzerland, where they lived in an 18th century home on the shore of Lake Geneva, with celebrity neighbours including Phil Collins.

The surprise announcement caught staff at Don's Pizzeria in Twain's hometown of Timmins, Ont., off guard, with no one having heard the news by Thursday afternoon.

Still, employee Tammy Jasmine, who says she used to hang out with Twain's brother many years ago, says the country star has remained important to the small northern Ontario community, home to a museum in her honour.

"Everyone loves Shania,'' said Jasmine. "How can't you? Look at her, she's beautiful, she's talented.''

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Shania Twain and Mutt Lange's Songs Will Endure



Posted: May 15th, 2008 at 2:24 pm | By: Craig Shelburne

Shania Twain and "Mutt" Lange announced their separation today, and it's hard for me to imagine what the future holds for them, musically speaking. Their 14-year partnership led to enormous sales (at least 47 million albums in the U.S.), and they co-wrote nearly all of her biggest hits from 1995 to 2005. If you've been to a wedding in the last 10 years, you've probably heard at least one Shania Twain song, whether it's the romantic "From This Moment On" or "Forever and For Always" at the ceremony, or something perky like "Man! I Feel Like a Woman" or "Love Gets Me Every Time" at the reception. And who can celebrate an anniversary without "You're Still the One"?

Anything could happen to Shania's music at this point. She might take the separation as her cue to reinvent her sound, maybe something rootsy. Or she might forge ahead with her pop-country approach, since she's always sounded so comfortable in that arena. I don't know if the split was amicable, so their professional partnership might continue. No matter what happens, I'm always curious to hear what she's working on, because she's truly one of the most talented and ambitious country singers we've ever had. Even with this separation, their music will endure.


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Husband Calls Shania Twain Split 'Unfortunate'

By Alexis Chiu

Originally posted Friday May 16, 2008 03:10 PM EDT


Twain and Lange in London in 2000

Robert "Mutt" Lange tells PEOPLE exclusively that his split from Shania Twain is "unfortunate."

"It's just an unfortunate thing that's happened," Lange told PEOPLE shortly after the couple's separation was announced Thursday. "It's literally just a growing apart, that's all."

A source close to Twain also tells PEOPLE that the singer didn't expect the split. "She's devastated," another source says. "She's getting through it with a very close-knit group of family and friends."

Twain, 42, and Lange, 59, married after a six-month courtship in 1993. They have a 6-year-old son, Eja D'Angelo.


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[oscillations.]

I wonder if potter66 is grief-stricken or if he is quietly celebrating the news.

[skaterboyccs]

It's really sad!!!

They both deserve the best!

[Positive Tension]

Wow, this is sad. I thought Shania and Mutt would have been together for a much longer time.

It'll be really interesting to see what her next CD will be like.

[Kishi KCM]

Geez, one of my favourite music couples. It happens...hope they both get through it.

[arebomb]

I remember reading an article a few years ago where Shania said something along the lines of "We don't even have sex that much anymore, we prefer to meditate together." When I showed that to my dad, who has the hots for Shania, he responded "If she believes that, her husband will be 'meditating' with someone else in a few years."

Guess he was right.

[Niarchos]

May 15, 2008 21:13:20 GMT -5 johnm1120 said:

Looks like he's not still the one :(

LMAO

[Cyrus_87]

So sad marriages are falling apart these days.......

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Alleged Affair Caused Shania Split

Shania Twain split from her husband of 14 years, producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange, because of an affair with another woman, sources have told people.com.


“Mutt” and Shania in 2003

The news of the breakup was announced Wednesday, May 15. In a statement, Mutt called the split “an unfortunate thing,” adding that the couple had grown apart. But several sources have said that he was having a relationship with another woman, Marie Ann Thiebaud, a longtime secretary who managed the couple’s castle residence in Switzerland. One source has said that, “Mutt and Marie Ann left their spouses for each other and are still in a relationship.” Mutt denies the claims, telling People that, “It’s absolutely not the reason [for the separation].” He also denied that he was in a romantic relationship with Thiebaud. Shania and Mutt were married Dec. 28, 1993, and have a six-year-old son, Eja.

May 20, 2008 photo by STEPHEN d’ANTAL/REX USA


"Country Weekly"

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NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Shania Twain's Domestic Unrest

Would Be Biggest Creative Divorce Ever in Country Music

May 22, 2008; Written by Chet Flippo

The news of domestic unrest in Shania Twain's life is troubling. If the Shania Twain-Robert "Mutt' Lange split is permanent, it will be a monumental creative divorce. Maybe not a pairing and subsequent split-up on the order of Lennon-McCartney, but, nevertheless, the Twain-Lange musical partnership remains the most successful collaboration ever in country music history. Together, they built a country music edifice like no other.

If she never sets foot in another recording studio, Shania Twain's legacy is forever set and secure. Although I for one certainly hope she is not done with her career. Her music and her place in the pantheon of modern country music are unassailable. At her height, she personified a free and exuberant country-pop sound and exuded a certain wholesome sexiness that transformed the image of Woman as country artist. She set concert ticket sales records, she sold more records than any woman country artist ever, she went from country star to international pop superstar, and her groundbreaking videos forever changed the concept of country music as a video form. Astonishingly, her breakthrough, epochal album, The Woman in Me, sold multi-multi-platinum without her touring at all to push it. She supported the album entirely with music videos. That had not been done before and has not been accomplished since.

I've been surprised this week, and shouldn't have been, I guess, by the outpouring of support and sympathy and just plain love that I've heard expressed for her. This is a woman who is obviously very much admired for what she's done and who she is. As an artist, as a woman and as a mother, she has been a true role model. She has been a true music professional, remained scandal-free, above petty Nashville jealousies and rivalries and has always remained a musical benchmark. And she has firmly kept her private life close and private. She opened doors in country music for many women, most of whom made the best of the opportunity, but some of whom have perhaps abused the privilege.

My first glimpse of Twain was at a fairly small Mercury press party early in her career when she was just beginning to hit big. Industry women clustered around her to get a glimpse of this exotic new creature. One woman who worked her way near enough for a close scrutiny emerged from the scrum of onlookers to report to her girlfriends, and she exclaimed, 'Shania's this big around!" -- and she held her hands together to approximate about a 12-inch waist.

Twain's allure was greatly enhanced by her videos, which truly were revolutionary for the time for country music. She was hectored at the time of the "Any Man of Mine" video, with its belly button barrage, for ruining country music by exposing her navel. But that's about all she ever really did show, when you look back at her video work. She slyly hinted at the rest. And six months after that video midriff revelation, you couldn't walk down Music Row without encountering seeming hordes of midriff-baring babes with their navels hanging out. I remarked on that phenomenon to Trisha Yearwood, who wryly said, "If I can't see my navel, then no one else is going to."

Twain was sensual without being slatternly, was glamorous without overreaching and managed to do everything well without overstating anything. And for my money, Shania made the all-time sexiest country music video ever with "The Woman in Me." It could be sub-titled "Shania Twain's Great Pyramids." It is truly a classic example of music perfectly wedded to form and movement.

Her life and career were country music's true fairy tale. She came from a broken home in rural Canada and often sang for the family's supper as a child. After her parents were killed in a car wreck, she raised her younger siblings, supporting the little family by singing at a resort.

Poor girl escapes poverty and makes good, meets and writes and records with her prince, marries her prince, and they have huge success together and then leave it all behind to go off to live happily ever after in a storybook castle in Switzerland. And to raise a family together.

But castles can be cold and drafty and unhappy places, and it turned out that they didn't live happily ever after. Together, at least. Real life rudely interrupted their fairy tale. What's next? I certainly wouldn't presume to guess. I can only hope all goes well for her.

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[vinyl]

:(
that's terribly sad.

[JamaicaFunk²]

I hate that skank!
(not Shania. the other woman. and she called herself a "friend." she can call herself a skank now.)

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Secretary Denies Breaking Up Shania's Marriage

Thu., May. 22, 2008 9:45 AM PDT by Ken Baker

The alleged other woman is finally talking.

Marie-Anne Thiébaud, 37, the longtime secretary and house manager at Shania Twain and Mutt Lange's estate in Switzerland, spoke to E! News exclusively today about her reputed role in the couple's headlines-grabbing breakup.

"I don't work for them anymore—I am retired," Thiébaud said by telephone from her home in Geneva.

"I know what you're ringing to ask me about. But when marriages break up, they break up for all sorts of complicated reasons—it's never just one reason. And those reasons should be kept private."

She continued: "If you're looking for a person that broke up a marriage, then you have the wrong person. I'm not that person."

Twain, 42, and Lange, a 59-year-old record producer, announced their split last week after 14 years of marriage. They have one son, 6-year-old Eja D'Angelo.

People magazine has reported that Thiébaud, once one of the country star's closest confidantes, and Lange have left their respective marriages for each other and are still in a relationship.

Thiébaud declined to comment any further on the reports, saying news outlets shouldn't "intrude into people's private lives."

E! News

[MusicRules]

^^ That sounds like a non-denial denial to me.

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May 27, 2008 8:22:05 GMT -5 MusicRules said:

^^ That sounds like a non-denial denial to me.

I agree.

One would think that a woman being accused of helping [with Mutt - it takes two] break-up two marriages would issue a much stronger denial.

IMO, that "denial" was more about trying to deflect the blame off of herself.

[Lowe]

NOO!!!!!! :(((((((((((

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The news of the split has now made the headlines on a lot of magazines.

Just to name a few, "People" magazine, "US Weekly" [June 2, 2008], and even "The National Enquirer" are covering the story.

I'm sure more magazines have already covered the story, and more will surely follow.

"People" actually featured the story twice.

• "People" magazine - June 2, 2008 -- Page 1, Page 2, and Page 3.
  
  
• "People" magazine - June 9, 2008 -- The Cover, Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, and Page 6.

Note: All Scans are from Tommy's Shania Site.

[asg4]

Apparently by Up! Up! Up!, Shania Twain meant Muskoka.

After a much-publicized May split from her husband of 14 years, super-producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, the Canadian country star took a trip to the cottage paradise to be with family.

"She left (Friday)," confirmed Julia, a worker at the Muskoka Airport who did not give her last name.

While the details surrounding the break-up are vague — and what is known about her personal life even blurrier — it's a sure thing that Twain doesn't usually make casual public appearances.

The 42-year-old from Timmins has reportedly been living in a castle in Switzerland with her 59-year-old ex, the man who brought us AC/DC, Def Leppard and Bryan Adams.

The two have a son, six-year-old Eja, together.

She is also rumoured now to be a vegetarian and devotee of Sant Mat, a strain of Sikh mysticism that advocates abstinence from sex and alcohol, hours of daily meditation and rigorous journal keeping.

And while none of the usual celebrity hotspots saw her this most recent trip, the owner of one can attest to the vegetarian part.

Ronald Brabander, who runs Blondie's restaurant in nearby Gravenhurst, recalls catering for Shania one night and preparing 16 entrees to ensure there'd be one to fit her taste.

"We had an entire vegetarian menu," he said. "We had to make smoked tofu in case she didn't like the arugula salad, and we had sushi rolls if she didn't like that."

Twain isn't the only celeb to zip up to the Muskokas, which are only increasing in popularity to the rich and famous.

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Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell and daughter Kate Hudson are longtime staples in the area, with actor Tom Hanks and director Steven Spielberg supposedly owning property as well.

Billionaire Ted Rogers and Robert Lantos, founder of entertainment giant Alliance-Atlantis, each have massive estates along the water.

But all we know about Twain is she grew up nearby and has family in the area.

The rest, which should come as no surprise, she's kept close to the chest.

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Jun 3, 2008 9:16:06 GMT -5 asg4 said:

She is also rumoured now to be a vegetarian and devotee of Sant Mat, a strain of Sikh mysticism that advocates abstinence from sex and alcohol, hours of daily meditation and rigorous journal keeping.

Those rumors were started by "The National Enquirer," of course, back during the "Come On Over" era.

Shania denied them, and actually laughed at them, in at least one interview years ago.

I may be wrong, but I also remember her joking/commenting on those rumors after Eja was born.

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Shania is quoted on Page 1 of the July 8, 2003 issue of "Country Weekly" as saying that the rumors you bolded in the article above are not true.

Go HERE to see Shania's quote about the rumors.


(The "Country Weekly" Scan is courtesy of Shania's Place.)

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The following is a letter from Shania to her Fans.

Here it is:

To my beloved fans:

As I am sure you have seen or heard; I am going through a rough time personally in my life. I wanted you all to know that I could not be getting through this without you. Your letters, emails and words of encouragement give me strength. Your overwhelming support reminds me to smile, no matter how deep the pain and to always be grateful for all the beautiful blessings in my life.

I have so much to say but I know the best way for me to speak is through my music. This is my therapy, my passion, and my love. I look forward to sharing it with all of you as I begin this new journey.

I need some time to heal this broken heart but make no mistake; I will be back and hopefully stronger than ever.

Thank you my friends, from the bottom of my heart.

Love,
Shania



The Official Shania Twain site

[skaterboyccs]

Jun 5, 2008 18:01:40 GMT -5 @musicstfan said:

The following is a letter from Shania to her Fans.

Here it is:

To my beloved fans:

As I am sure you have seen or heard; I am going through a rough time personally in my life. I wanted you all to know that I could not be getting through this without you. Your letters, emails and words of encouragement give me strength. Your overwhelming support reminds me to smile, no matter how deep the pain and to always be grateful for all the beautiful blessings in my life.

I have so much to say but I know the best way for me to speak is through my music. This is my therapy, my passion, and my love. I look forward to sharing it with all of you as I begin this new journey.

I need some time to heal this broken heart but make no mistake; I will be back and hopefully stronger than ever.

Thank you my friends, from the bottom of my heart.

Love,
Shania



The Official Shania Twain site

OMG!!! She's ANNOUNCING she's working on a new album ;) :(

[masterpiece]

Who f****ng cheats on Shania Twain?

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poor Shania. Wish her the best.

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Shania Twain Is Singing the Blues



Shania Twain at Toronto airport on June 13


By Bob Meadows

Originally posted Monday July 14, 2008 02:20 PM EDT

Two months after her split from producer-songwriter husband, Robert "Mutt" Lange, Shania Twain has found strength in the two things that mean the most to her – her 6-year-old son, Eja D'Angelo, and her music.

"She's spending as much time with Eja as possible and hasn't put down her guitar since the split," a source close to singer tells PEOPLE. "The songs are pouring out of her."

No doubt some of them – like many great country songs – are inspired by heartache. Twain, 42, announced her separation from Lange, 59, in May, after she found out about his alleged affair with one of her best friends.

Twain is also keeping busy shopping and traveling. The now-single singer was recently spotted buying lingerie at a Holt Renfrew store in her native Canada. She's also been to the Caribbean, where she has a villa, and to Switzerland, where she and Lange once lived together.

Last weekend, Canadian fans were surprised to see their homegrown talent whiz through the Toronto airport wearing dark shades, but also sporting a big smile.


People.com

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Shania Twain Works Through Split



Aug. 14, 2008 — Shania Twain’s breakup with husband-producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange is apparently going as well as can be expected, according to People magazine.

She was spotted shopping recently in Toronto and was photographed by paparazzi walking with her son, Eja, who looks very much like his reclusive father. Store owners said she looked "fantastic" and that she seemed "bubbly."

A source indicated she is not letting the impending divorce get the best of her, insisting that "life has to continue." "That’s her motto," the informant added. "She is a strong woman."

That all makes sense for someone who lost both her parents in a car accident when she was only 18 years old, leaving her to fend for herself and two brothers.


Sources: GAC and People.com [contains New photo of Shania & Eja]

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Note: Shania was actually 22 years old when her parents died.

[KeepDeanWeird]

Considering she put her career on-hold to raise her siblings, only to find success much later than most, I have no doubt she'll be back on track. Since Twain has never included recorded "personal" songs -- she keeps them for herself. It will be interesting if her next disc is confessional or business as usual.