Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner have officially completed their divorce process a year after initiating it.
According to Us Weekly, the divorce was finalized on Friday, September 6. Legal documents obtained by TMZ reveal that the specifics of the settlement have been kept “confidential.”
Us has contacted Jonas’s representatives for comment.
Jonas, who was married to Turner for four years and has two daughters with her—Willa, 4, and Delphine, 2—filed for divorce on September 5, 2023. At that time, Us reported that Jonas had described the marriage as “irretrievably broken.”
The following day, Turner and Jonas issued a joint statement describing the divorce as a “joint decision.” However, the situation became more complicated when Turner filed a lawsuit in Manhattan on September 21, 2023, seeking the return of their children to England, where she was living.
Turner’s lawsuit requested “the immediate return of children wrongfully removed or wrongfully retained,” noting that their “wrongful retention” began on September 20. A representative for Jonas informed Us shortly after Turner’s filing that “The Florida Court has already entered an order that restricts both parents from relocating the children. Sophie was served with this order on September 6, 2023, more than two weeks ago.”
In a joint statement provided to Us the following month, Jonas and Turner announced they had agreed to a temporary custody arrangement, allowing the children to spend time equally between the U.S. and the UK. “After a productive and successful mediation, we have agreed that the children will spend time equally in loving homes in both the U.S. and the UK,” they stated in October 2023. “We look forward to being great coparents.”
Jonas and Turner established a short-term biweekly custody plan that saw the children alternating between Turner’s home in the U.K. and Jonas’s residence in New York City.
This custody arrangement was maintained while further mediation continued. Court documents filed by Jonas on May 13 showed that both parties were dedicated to achieving “an amicable resolution of all issues.”
Jonas has discussed the impact of the divorce on his music, revealing in an interview with Billboard last month that it has influenced his new solo work. “It was scary at times, and also freeing,” he said in an August 26 article about his upcoming album, Music for People Who Believe in Love. “I’m not trying to come for anyone on this album. I’m not trying to put stuff on blast.”
Turner, who has recently started dating British aristocrat Peregrine “Perry” Pearson, shared with British Vogue in May that she faced challenges in finding her voice amid the situation. “There were some days that I didn’t know if I was going to make it,” she admitted in a May 15 article. “I would call my lawyer saying, ‘I can’t do this. I just can’t.’ I was just never strong enough to stand up for myself.”
