Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi and husband/author Salman Rushdie are getting divorced. Although no reason for the split has been given, the “Satanic Verses” author did release a statement saying that he has “agreed to divorce his wife because of her desire to end their marriage.”

Padma, a 37 years old former model married the 60 year old writer in 2004. The couple had no children and one more juicy bit of info for you is that this is Rushdie’s fourth divorce. I guess it’s hard to have a successful marriage when the entire Muslim world wants to kill you. (If you have no idea what I’m talking about go right now and Google Salman Rushie and Ayatollah Khomeini.)

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