Updated December 23: The original version published in 2021 said that Sara Gilbert and Linda Perry had settled their divorce, but at the time they were only declared legally separated. In December 2024, their divorce was officially finalized.
Sara Gilbert and Linda Perry are officially over.
According to court documents obtained by PEOPLE, the exes’ divorce was finalized on Dec. 19, 2024. That came after Gilbert filed for an uncontested divorce on Oct. 24, 2024 after the couple had been legally separated since October 2021.
When Gilbert, 49, and Perry, 56, filed for legal separation three years ago, they reached a custody agreement over their now 9-year-old son Rhodes Emilio, who Gilbert verified “hasn’t changed” in the divorce filing .
They were “ordered to regularly provide and share information about Rhodes’ care, welfare, physical and mental health, education and well-being,” and share joint legal and physical custody, according to the documents.
Additionally, day-to-day decisions about their child “are the responsibility of the party in whose home Rhodes resides at the time.”
Both Gilbert and Perry waived their right to an award of spousal support.
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Gilbert and Perry started dating in 2011 and married in 2014. They welcomed Rhodes in 2015, but The Conners the actress also has two children, Levi Hawk, 20, and Sawyer Jane, 17, from a previous relationship with ex Allison Adler.
PEOPLE confirmed in December 2019 that Gilbert filed for legal separation, citing irreconcilable differences. The former couple — whose split date is listed as August 2019 — were married for nearly six years and remained legally married while living apart.
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A few weeks after the divorce filing was announced, Perry told PEOPLE that “everything happens for a reason.”
“All I can do is continue my journey,” the 4 Non Blondes musician said in 2020.
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“I’m still on an amazing adventure with Sarah. I love her. I adore her,” Perry also told Page Six last year. “We have a beautiful child together. So that journey didn’t end, it just evolved into something else.”
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