Roger Waters has filed for divorce from Kamilah Chavis. The Pink Floyd co-founder, 83, submitted papers to the New York Supreme Court on Tuesday, November 10, according to court records viewed by People. Five years married. His fifth marriage to end.
Roger Waters Files for Divorce After Five Years of Marriage
Page Six reported that the reason for the split has not been made public. Chavis is 48. Neither she nor Waters has publicly explained what led to the filing, The Blast noted. Most of the marriage stayed away from cameras, with only a few updates on social media over the years.
Their story started in the front of a car. Chavis was working in transportation in 2016. She drove Waters between his hotel and the venue while he played Coachella. He told Infobae in 2018 that his security guard would chat with her while he sat in the back. One day he said, “Excuse me,” and complimented her cheekbones. “I saw a small reaction, and that was the beginning,” he said.
The Divorce Proceedings Are Listed as Contested
Contested is the word doing the heavy lifting in those court records. According to Page Six, it means the two have yet to agree on at least one issue about the separation. The Blast pointed out that a contested filing does not mean both sides are fighting over whether to end the marriage. Money, property and other legal details can all sit in that unsettled column. Some may need negotiation or a judge.
Nobody has said which issue it is.
Page Six reported, as cited by The Blast, that the couple lived together in a New York City townhouse during the marriage. Two people who guarded their privacy for nearly a decade now have one document where some of it becomes public record. Contested cases tend to reveal what a couple could not settle over a kitchen table. Usually that is the shared life, not the feelings.
Waters and Chavis have no children together, so custody will not be part of the proceedings, The Blast reported. Waters has three children from earlier marriages to Carolyne Christie and Priscilla Phillips. Without children in the mix, whatever is unresolved between him and Chavis comes down to what they built as two adults. The house. The money. The paperwork of a life.
Waters Previously Called Chavis a ‘Keeper’
Facebook, October 2021. Roger Waters posted photos from their wedding at his Bridgehampton estate in the Hamptons, according to TMZ as cited by The Blast. The caption, per Page Six: “I’m so happy, finally a keeper.”
Finally carried a lot of history. Page Six lists his earlier marriages to Judith Trim from 1969 to 1975, Carolyne Christie from 1976 to 1992 and Priscilla Phillips from 1993 to 2001. He married Laurie Durning in 2012 after a decade of living together. Page Six revealed that split in 2015.
Saying a word like “finally” out loud is a bet placed in public. Waters filed for divorce from Kamilah Chavis, marking his fifth marriage. About as sincere as a declaration gets. In that same Infobae interview he said love requires maturing, and that love is about giving, not receiving. A man who believed that still ended up in a courthouse five years later. Belief in a marriage and the daily mechanics of one are separate things, and only the second shows up in a filing.
Neither Waters nor Chavis has said what is in dispute, or what happens to the townhouse. For now, roger waters and his estranged wife remain silent while the case moves forward.
Sources: Just Jared, The Blast, Page Six
