Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner ‘files for divorce from wife of 28 years’
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner ‘files for divorce from wife of 28 years’
He’s famous for creating the AMC hit show Mad Men.
And on Tuesday, TheBlast.com reported that Matthew Weiner has filed for divorce from his wife of almost 30 years.
The 54-year-old filed to end his marriage to Linda Brettler on Wednesday, the outlet said.
Split: Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner, 54, filed for divorce from his wife Linda Brettler on Wednesday, TheBlast.com reported. They’re pictured together in 2015
Weiner and Brettler, an architect, married in 1991.
They have four sons together.Â
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For the first 10 years or so of the marriage, Weiner struggled to find success as a screenwriter.
His big break came when David Chase hired him as a writer and supervising producer on his HBO show The Sopranos.
He eventually was appointed as an executive producer on the series staying through its finale in 2007.
Mad Men debuted in July 2007 and became a runaway success, airing for seven seasons ending in 2014.
Exes: Weiner and Brettler, an architect, married in 1991. They have four sons together
Hit show: Mad Men debuted in July 2007 and became a runaway success, airing for seven seasons ending in 2014. Weiner reportedly made $30 million for the final three seasons
Weiner made $30 million for the final three seasons of the show starring Jon Hamm, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
He followed it with The Romanoffs for Amazon Prime but the anthology series which premiered last October met with mixed reviews.Â
In November 2017, his former assistant and writer on Mad Men Kater Gordon accused Weiner of sexual harassment.
Gordon claimed in an interview with The Information that while working on a script together for the season two finale of Mad Men, Weiner ‘told me that I owed it to him to let him see me naked.’Â
She was later fired by Weiner by phone just ahead of the show’s fourth season.
The writer and producer asserted that he really didn’t remember making the charged comment, adding that he believed he didn’t say it in comments to The New York Times.
‘I mean, Kater and I were in a room together nine hours a day for six months, six days a week, and I just don’t remember having that attitude,’ he told the newspaper.Â
‘I didn’t feel that way about her. I was surprised that so many years later, I was being told about that. We worked together for a year, and it did not work out.’
Writer and producer: Weiner’s most recent series The Romanoffs, for Amazon Prime, premiered last October but met with mixed reviews. He’s pictured June 5 in Hollywood
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