LEANN TELLS DEAN: I WANT A DIVORCE

LEANN TELLS DEAN: I WANT A DIVORCE



Signing autographs for country music fans at the Nashville Convention Center on June 14, LeAnn Rimes looked as if there was nowhere she’d rather be. “She looked really pretty, and she was smiling a lot,” says fan Miranda Montgomery, who was at the convention center for the CMA Music Festival. But 20 miles away at their home in Franklin, Tenn., LeAnn’s husband, dancer Dean Sheremet, was not in a good mood at all. According to an insider close to the couple, LeAnn, 26, has told him that she is ready to file for divorce — and that she’s leaving him in the hopes of being with her married TV movie co-star Eddie Cibrian. “He is completely distraught and heartbroken,” says an insider.



LeAnn and Dean’s marriage hit a major stumbling block back in March when photos surfaced of LeAnn kissing Eddie, whom she’d met on the set of the Lifetime movie Northern Lights. Yet LeAnn and Dean’s troubles are based on more than just Eddie. “It would be incorrect to say that she’s leaving Dean because of Eddie,” says a friend of the country star’s. “They have always had problems. They both got married so young — LeAnn was just 19 — and people just grow apart.” The friend also says that while the couple may soon divorce, they are still “figuring out what they want to do,” and insists that papers still haven’t been filed. But a real estate source says that the couple has put their Franklin home, purchased in 2003, up for sale and “want to get rid of the house fast,” and an associate says they have plans to split the assets. “I am sure that Dean is talking to friends and expressing his concerns,” the friend says.