Mia Goth Divorce Filing Ends a Decade With Shia LaBeouf

The Mia Goth divorce filing landed last Tuesday in a Los Angeles courthouse, and with it one of Hollywood's longest-running romances moved a step closer to its legal end. Goth, thirty-two, filed against Shia LaBeouf, forty, citing irreconcilable differences after nearly ten years of marriage, according to the Associated Press.

The petition, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, says the couple has been separated since last July. Goth is seeking primary legal and physical custody of the couple's four-year-old daughter, with visitation rights for LaBeouf, and has asked the court to deny spousal support to either party.

Neither actor had been married before, the AP reported. Representatives for Goth and LaBeouf did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment, and neither has spoken publicly about the filing.

What the Mia Goth divorce petition asks for

Custody sits at the center of the Mia Goth divorce filing. Goth wants primary legal authority over major decisions affecting their daughter, along with primary physical custody, which would determine where the child principally lives. Her petition provides for visitation with LaBeouf.

The filing also asks the court to terminate its authority to award spousal support to either actor, which would rule out ongoing payments in both directions. If a judge agrees, the financial split would be as final as the legal one. Those requests remain subject to a judge's review.

A romance that kept coming back

Goth and LaBeouf met in twenty twelve while filming Nymphomaniac: Vol. II, and the working relationship turned personal soon after. They married in Las Vegas in twenty sixteen, Law Commentary reported, formalizing a relationship that had already survived unusual public scrutiny.

The marriage hit trouble in twenty eighteen, when the couple split and said they were divorcing. The split did not stick. They stayed legally married, reconciled two years later, and welcomed a daughter in twenty twenty-two. Looked at end to end, the road to the Mia Goth divorce ran through a breakup, a reconciliation and new parenthood. Through it all, Goth kept building an acting career while LaBeouf's name kept surfacing for reasons that had little to do with his films.

The timing raised eyebrows

The Mia Goth divorce petition arrived a day after LaBeouf settled a separate legal dispute with singer, songwriter and actor FKA Twigs, whom he dated while split from Goth. The AP reported that Barnett, whose legal name is Tahliah Barnett, had alleged in a suit filed in twenty twenty that LaBeouf emotionally and physically abused her during their relationship, which began when she had a supporting role in the semi-autobiographical film Honey Boy that he wrote and starred in.

Goth, born Mia Gypsy Mello da Silva Goth in London, has built her name on horror. She starred in the trilogy X, Pearl and MaXXXine, took a dual role in last year's Frankenstein, and most recently appeared as the unfaithful servant Melantho in this summer's The Odyssey, the AP reported. She is also defending herself against allegations stemming from the production of MaXXXine, according to Law Commentary. Her career kept climbing even as the Mia Goth divorce took shape behind the scenes.

LaBeouf was a child star on the Disney Channel's Even Stevens before breaking into film with Holes. He later starred in Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull and director Michael Bay's first three Transformers films, a run that made him among the most bankable young actors of his generation before his personal life began generating more headlines than his roles.

What happens next

Marriage, divorce and parenthood have dominated celebrity coverage lately, from the arrival of Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin's daughter to the copyright lawsuit filed against singer Olivia Dean over a Withers classic and even a surprise Taylor Swift cameo that upstaged a comedy monologue. Goth's filing fits a season in which the private lives of famous people keep spilling into public records.

Every new filing in the Mia Goth divorce will shape the custody and support terms, and those arrangements often shift during negotiations. For now, the petition states the outcome she wants plainly: after a decade of breakups and reconciliations, Goth is asking a judge to close the book for good.