New details regarding director Sam Raimi’s divorce from wife Gillian Greene have been revealed two years after her petition was first filed.
Greene, 58, filed for divorce from Raimi, 66, in May 2024, citing irreconcilable differences, without specifying the date of separation. She also requested spousal support and for the filmmaker to pay her attorneys’ fees, further asking the court to terminate Raimi’s ability to be awarded alimony himself.
Nearly two years later, the Spider-Man director responded to Greene’s petition in court documents exclusively obtained by Us Weekly. He claimed that the duo, who wed in September 1993, had separated in April 2016, nearly eight years before Greene’s filing.
In his Wednesday, July 15, motion, Raimi asked the court for a divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. In contrast to Greene’s alimony request, Raimi asked that both parties be unable to receive spousal support.
Raimi further claimed that the “full nature and extent” of the pair’s separate and community property are unknown at this time.
Raimi is a famed film director, who has helmed the likes of The Happy Valley Kid, Crime Wave, For the Love of the Game, The Gift, Darkman, Army of Darkness, Oz the Great and Powerful and the Tobey Maguire-led Spider-Man franchise. Raimi later directed Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in 2022, sparking rumors that he would also direct 2026’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
“Well, I haven’t heard about that yet. I did read that, but I’m not actually working on it yet,” Raimi told Comic Book Resources in 2024 when asked about the speculation. “I mean, Marvel and Columbia are so successful with current Spider-Man [movies], and the track there, and I don’t know that they’re going to go back to me, and say, ‘Well, folks, we can also tell that story!’”
He continued, “I’m not sure, but I love all the new Spider-Man movies. I loved Spider-Man: No Way Home. It was really, super powerful seeing Tobey again in it.”
Maguire, 51, reprised his role as Peter Parker in the 2021 film alongside fellow former Spider-Man Andrew Garfield. The MCU version is based on Tom Holland’s version of the character.
Raimi ultimately did not direct Brand New Day; Destin Daniel Cretton was tasked with the gig.
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