Former U.S. Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Al Gore announced he was separating from his wife Tipper, after 40 years of marriage. The high school sweethearts, who seemed united, however, have decided to break an agreement.
Al Gore is separated from his wife, Mary Elizabeth Tipper, Professional photographer, after 40 years of marriage. And yet, there was no indication about separation. The couple has always seemed welded and loved.
From an email circulating among the friends of the couple and The Associated Press also has obtained a copy, the couple suggests a decision together: “We are announcing today that after a great deal of thought and discussion, we have decided to separate,” the e-mail said. “This is very much a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration.”
The couple’s spokeswoman, Kalee Kreider, confirmed the information indicating that Tipper and Al Gore called for “privacy for themselves and their families.” Relatives of Gore learned the news through a common email.
Both of them had met in 1965 and married in 1970. Democratic presidential candidate defeated by W. Bush in 2000, Al Gore, 62, has always been involved in the fight against global warming, deforestation and reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases, the point of creating its own association, the APC (Alliance for Climate Protection), and his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth won two Oscars in 2007.
Unfortunately, today, in his marriage, the climate is sort of tense.
Everyone remembers their long kiss exchanged at the Democratic convention in August 2000, when Tipper was announced that her husband would accept the nomination for the U.S. presidency.