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"They kept trying to work things out," says the friend. Then, a few days before she called it quits, Locklear found an e-mail sent to Sambora by a woman they both knew. The e-mail, says the source, contained "provocative pictures." Though the woman had long been "a sore subject," says the friend, Locklear never thought she and her husband had actually been "romantic." Whatever conclusions she has now drawn from the photos, they were, believes her friend, the final straw: "She's devastated. Absolutely devastated."
Sambora, meanwhile, seems mostly confused. According to their friend, he is as upset about the photos as Locklear: "Richie's saying that nothing ever happened, that he never asked for the pictures." Another source close to him says that while he and Locklear "have issues that they've been trying to resolve for years," the photos are neither the cause of the breakup nor indicative of a liaison between Sambora and the woman.
"This is not the Jude Law story," says the source. "It's absolutely not true that they had an affair," though he adds that the discovery of the photos "wasn't a great thing to happen when people are on the brink of breaking up anyway, that's for sure."
