Eddie Cibrian & Brandi Glanville are finally, officially divorced

At long last, it finally happened! Eddie Cibrian is officially single, after more than a year of divorce negotiations and drama with his now ex-wife, Brandi Glanville. I’m actually surprised that this junk was finalized now – I honestly thought that Brandi was probably drawing it out to A) Stick it to LeAnn, because LeAnn so obviously wants to marry Eddie and she wants their relationship legitimized and B) Because there were lots of fights over money, and I thought Brandi was still angling for a bigger payday. Well, it’s over now, not even two years after the world found out that Eddie and LeAnn were boning while married (to other people).

Eddie Cibrian and Brandi Glanville’s marriage is finally, officially over.

A judge granted the former couple’s petition for divorce in L.A. County Superior Court on Thursday, TMZ confirmed. Cibrian, 37, and Glanville, 36, wed in 2002 and have two sons together: Mason, 7, and Jake, 3. They originally filed to dissolve their union last August.

Their marriage fell apart after Cibrian’s torrid affair with Northern Lights costar LeAnn Rimes (first reported in Us Weekly) came to light.

Rimes’ own six-year marriage to Dean Sheremet similarly ended in the wake of the scandal; their divorce was finalized in June.

Cibrian and Rimes went public with their romance in fall 2009. He and his two sons moved into Rimes’ Malibu home over the summer.

[From Us weekly]

I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that LeAnn wrote a BIG check to Brandi to make her go away. The tabloids reported that theory earlier this year – I think that’s what happened. Brandi and LeAnn probably also settled the little matter of Brandi’s constant and hilarious interviews about how LeAnn and Eddie both suck, and about LeAnn’s threat to file a slander lawsuit against Brandi. Well, whatever. Brandi got paid and LeAnn gets her lover. Hopefully everybody will be very happy. Everybody but the kids, who are stuck in the middle of this clusterf-ck.

Also: how long before Eddie is caught boning someone else? I say “within the next six months”.

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