Post Date: 1st Mar, 2011 - 7:28pm / Post ID:
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Melissa Gilbert
After being married for 16 years, the star from Little House on the Prairie decided to separate. No talk about divorce as yet although I am pretty sure it will be soon.
QUOTE Looks like the prairie just got a little lonelier.
Melissa Gilbert, 46, has separated from her husband of 16 years, Bruce Boxleitner, 60, a rep for the actress confirms.
Wed in 1995 after a stormy courtship, the couple have one son, Michael, 15, named for Michael Landon, Gilbert's costar, mentor and father figure during her 9-year (from 1974 to 1983) stint as Laura Ingalls on TV's Little House on the Prairie.
Gilbert also has a son, Dakota, 21, from her previous marriage to Bo Brinkman; Boxleitner has two sons, ages 30 and 25, from his previous marriage to former actress Kathryn Ogilvy....https://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20469878,00.html