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MELISSA & TAMMY
For Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels, nine years of marriage ended in a case of she said, she said. Though Etheridge told Oprah the pair's April 15 split was "as mutual as those things can be," Michaels says she was "blindsided" – and left broke – by their breakup. Things went from bad to worse three months later when the exes went to court over custody of the couple's 3-year-old twins.

