After 25 years of marriage, Sylvester Stallone and Jennifer Flavin are splitting.
On Friday, Flavin filed a petition in Palm Beach County, Florida, seeking “dissolution of marriage and other relief” from the Rocky actor, 76.
Stallone and Flavin, 54, married in 1997, albeit their relationship began in 1988 at a Beverly Hills restaurant.
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Scarlet, 20, Sistine, 24, and Sophia, 25, are their three daughters. Stallone has a son, Seargeoh, from his former marriage to Sasha Czack. Sage, his oldest child with Starlin Wright, died in 2012.
Who is Sylvester Stallone?
Sylvester Enzio Stallone is an American actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker who was born on July 6, 1946. After a number of years as a struggling actor after moving to New York City in 1969 and then to Hollywood in 1974, he received his first critical praise as an actor for his co-starring performance as Stanley Rosiello in The Lords of Flatbush.
Stallone then gradually found work as an extra or side character in films with large budgets until he achieved his greatest critical and commercial success as an actor and screenwriter, beginning in 1976 with his role as boxer Rocky Balboa in the first film of the popular Rocky series (1976-present), for which he also wrote the screenplays.
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Rocky is shown in the films as an underdog boxer who defeats multiple severe opponents and twice wins the world heavyweight championship.
In 1977, Stallone was the third actor in the film to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. Rocky was inducted into the National Film Registry, and its props were deposited in the Smithsonian Museum. The Rocky Steps were called after Sylvester Stallone’s use of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s front entrance in the Rocky series. Rocky has a permanent statue in Philadelphia near the museum, and he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Unless they were Rocky sequels, Stallone’s films were not significant box office blockbusters until 1982, and none gained the critical praise that the first Rocky did. This changed once he portrayed the PTSD-ridden soldier John Rambo in the hit action film First Blood. Stallone extensively rewrote the script of First Blood, which was originally an adaptation of David Morell’s eponymous novel.
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Stallone would play Rambo in a total of five films (1982–2019). Stallone would go on to become one of Hollywood’s highest-paid actors from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s by acting in a series of commercially successful action pictures that were typically derided by critics. Cobra, Tango and Cash, Cliffhanger, Demolition Man, and The Specialist are among them.
Stallone’s popularity dipped in the early 2000s, but he rose to prominence again in 2006 with the sixth instalment in the Rocky series and in 2008 with the fourth instalment in the Rambo series. Stallone started The Expendables film series (2010-2014) in the 2010s, in which he starred as the mercenary Barney Ross.
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He appeared in the successful 2013 film Escape Plan and its sequels. Stallone returned to the Rocky franchise in 2015 with Creed, which serves as a spin-off film centred on Adonis “Donnie” Creed, played by Michael B. Jordan, the son of the ill-fated boxer Apollo Creed, to whom the long-retired Rocky serves as a mentor. Stallone received plaudits and his first Golden Globe trophy for the first Creed, as well as a third Oscar nomination, having previously been nominated for the same role 40 years ago.
Stallone is the only actor in American film history to have starred in a box office number one film in six straight decades. He is also one of history’s most well-known physical cultural symbols.