And now, while Ms. Spears slinks behind a wall of publicists, her erstwhile husband, Jason Allen Alexander, is left with the paparazzi on his front lawn.
* News that Sadie Frost was to write a "tell all biography" was met, by several accounts, with alarm bells chez Law, where her erstwhile husband was said to have called in the lawyers.
It was 1985 when an astonishing study on how divorce can give income a shove was published: a woman's standard of living plunged 73percentt on average in the year after a divorce, while the erstwhile husband's jumped 43percentt.
You have to remind yourself that Thorn is half of one of the most enduring relationships in pop, with her erstwhile bandmate, now husband, Ben Watt.
Clinton has surprised Republicans by coöperating with erstwhile enemies of her husband's Administration, such as Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, who was a House impeachment manager in 1998, and Trent Lott, of Mississippi, who in 2000 expressed a hope that lightning might strike Clinton before her first day in the Senate.
Their lives mirror those in suburban New Jersey in that they feel overwhelmed by the pressure of raising children and a lack of support from husbands and erstwhile friends.
So, it's off to Brighton to meet Preston, sometime lead singer of the here-today-gone-tomorrow indie band the Ordinary Boys, erstwhile Celebrity Big Brother housemate, ex-husband of Chantelle Houghton, the fluffiest, blondest non-celebrity celebrity of recent times.
Led by the strikingly photogenic Cristina Martinez and the erstwhile Blues Explosion front man Jon Spencer, a husband-and-wife duo who met while playing in the noise-punk band Pussy Galore, Boss Hog puts a sexy spin on an old sound.
So the erstwhile female high-flier finds herself collecting her husband's dry-cleaning, picking up his boxer shorts and packing her children's social calendar.
The ruling by Chief Judge William Lavery brought to an apparent end a bruising and very public battle between Mrs. Wendt and her husband of 31 years, Gary Wendt, an erstwhile General Electric corporate star who is now hip deep in the struggle to turn around Conseco, the insurance company.
Certainly Stratou gives the coded impression that her husband was let down or betrayed by his erstwhile colleagues.
