LaSalle Ishii divorces after 32 years of marriage

Talento and actor LaSalle Ishii (55) is now divorced after 32 years of marriage, it was learned on Monday. The news was reported by the newest issue of weekly magazine Josei Jishin before being confirmed by his management agency. According to the magazine, Ishii was living separately from his wife for the past 15 years, and the couple officially divorced at the start of this year.

The two first met through the theater group that Ishii was involved in during his student days at Waseda University. They married in 1979 and had two daughters. In 1997, Ishii reportedly had an affair with an actress 12 years younger than him. Although he denied it, that seems to have been around the time that Ishii and his wife began living in separation.

Josei Jishin also reported that Ishii was seen on a date at a restaurant on Christmas Eve last year with a woman in her mid-twenties, and he even gave her a ring as a present. However, it appears that the woman broke off the relationship sometime after that.

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Sankei Sports