Shannon Elizabeth's professional pivot to was immediately preceded by an even more seismic change in her personal life.
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Shannon Elizabeth Files Divorce Before OnlyFans Launch
Shannon Elizabeth's professional pivot to OnlyFans was immediately preceded by an even more seismic change in her personal life.The 52-year-old actress filed fo...
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The 52-year-old actress filed for divorce from her husband Simon Borchert 'in the last few days,' according to a well-placed source.
Describing the separation as 'rather fresh,' the insider added: 'Now that she is single, she wants to have a bit more freedom and be wild,' via People.
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Borchert is a South African wildlife conservationist whom Elizabeth met in 2015 through her own environmental activism and then married in 2021.
The newly-minted OnlyFans star, who now lives in , has seemingly confirmed the end of her marriage by changing her relationship status on .
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Shannon Elizabeth filed for divorce from her husband Simon Borchert 'in the last few days,' according to a well-placed source; the couple are pictured in January 2024
Elizabeth is best known as Czech exchange student Nadia in the 1999 high school comedy American Pie, a role she reprised in two sequels; pictured in American Pie 2 in 2001
When she unveiled her account on the adult entertainment website this week, Elizabeth gave an interview explaining her reasons for the move.
'I've spent my entire career working in Hollywood, where other people controlled the narrative and the outcome of my career,' she told People.
Borchert is a South African wildlife conservationist whom Elizabeth met in 2015 through her own environmental activism and then married in 2021
When she unveiled her account on the adult entertainment website this week, Elizabeth gave an interview explaining her reasons for the move
Elizabeth worked as a model before landing her breakthrough film role in American Pie in 1999; she is pictured with leading man Jason Biggs in the film
She noted that Borchert was 'able to speak Afrikaans, which is one of the languages here. And so it really made it quite an easy adjustment for me.'
They worked from home together running her eponymous wildlife foundation, which she confessed was 'challenging' but insisted was 'also really, really rewarding to be able to do it with someone that you love and you’re like-minded and you have the same dreams and the same goals and aspirations.'
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Elizabeth gushed over her husband: 'And that’s why I felt so lucky to find him because we’re mirror images of each other. We want the same things, and we’re so aligned with everything that we love in the world and love in this universe. And I feel really lucky to have found him. He’s definitely my soulmate.'
She was previously married to her Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back co-star Joseph D. Reitman, no relation to Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman or his son Jason Reitman, the filmmaker behind Juno and Up in the Air.
Reitman and Elizabeth founded a dog and cat rescue charity called Animal Avengers in 2001, exchanged vows in 2002 and separated in 2005.
Elizabeth worked as a model before landing her breakthrough film role in American Pie in 1999, catapulting her to a sex symbol status she retained through the Y2K era.
'I'd never done anything that big. But I was auditioning a lot at the time, and I was so excited when I got the role,' she remarked last week to Fox News Digital.
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Her subsequent films included Scary Movie in 2000, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back in 2001, Love Actually in 2003 and Cursed in 2005.
She also gave two more performances as Czech transplant Nadia in the 2001 sequel American Pie 2 and the 2012 release American Reunion.
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