A
husband who shot himself dead at a shooting range after his model wife
was pictured cozying up to Leonardo DiCaprio had filed for divorce weeks
before, MailOnline can reveal.
Katie
Cleary was pictured cuddling up to DiCaprio and Entourage star Adrian
Grenier last month in Cannes, before her husband Andrew Stern killed
himself at a California shooting range on Sunday.
He
had filed court papers to end the couple's less-than-four-year marriage
just weeks before the images emerged, according to court documents.
And
Cleary and Stern were still in the process of dividing up their assets
when the 40-year-old entrepreneur took his own life with a bullet to the
head at the San Fernando Valley gun range.
A spokesman for Cleary last night claimed the pictures were harmless but friends of his told TMZ that he felt humiliated.
Together: Stern, who appeared on Millionaire Matchmaker, was the one who petitioned for divorce in April
Tragic: Andrew Stern, who is married to model Katie Cleary, shot himself dead at a shooting range on Sunday
Spotted: Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted out in NYC Tuesday night attending the Jeff Koons Retrospective at the Whitney Museum
Cozy: DiCaprio's name has been linked to the
suicide of model Katie Cleary's husband Andrew Stern after she was
pictured partying with him in Cannes
The
divorce papers read: 'The exact nature and extent of [Stern's] separate
assets including, without limitation, funds and/or other property
interests due to [Stern] from [Cleary] by way of recoupment,
misappropriation... are presently under determination.'
Cleary and Stern, who had appeared on
Bravo's dating show Millionaire Matchmaker, married the model on July 31, 2010.
The court documents state the pair separated on April 3, 2014.
However, Cleary's rep told TMZ the
couple broke up eight months ago and said Cleary and Grenier had been
friends for sometime. The rep said that Cleary and Dicaprico had only
met the night they were photograph but insisted they were innocently
discussing animal conservation and nothing else.
However, the celebrity website cites sources as saying Stern felt embarrassed by the pictures and was suffering depression.
Interviews
with the couple's friends revealed he was 'suffering significant stress
over marital problems' and had a history of depression, TMZ earlier eported, while others said he had financial strains.
Lady in red: Cleary was pictured getting close to Leonardo DiCaprio at a club in Cannes last month
Getting acquainted: Sources said that Cleary and Stern were going through a divorce, which added to his stress
Just friends? Cleary was also pictured stepping out in Cannes with Entourage actor Adriran Grenier
On Tuesday it emerged that two other men had taken their lives at the same shooting range in the past five years.
Stern
shot himself in the head at the Target Range in Van Nuys, Los Angeles,
and according to local reports another man killed himself there just 10
weeks ago.
The
unidentified man in his 50s shot himself in the chest at the indoor
shooting range on April 6. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene,
according to CBS LA.
And
in November 2009 a man in his 30s was reportedly wounded at the range
and died at hospital about two hours later, an archive Los Angeles Daily
News report says.
The latest tragedy
comes just four weeks after 32-year-old Cleary was pictured getting
close to DiCaprio at the Gotha nightclub in Cannes.
The
pair were seen chatting and dancing closely, while DiCaprio was
pictured whispering into the model's ear. The apparent closeness came
even though DiCaprio is dating Victoria's Secret model Toni Garrn.
Katie, who
is from Glenview, Illinois, appeared on the first series of America's
Next Top Model while she was still a college student, before landing the
role of 'briefcase beauty' on popular game show Deal Or No Deal.
The
brunette beauty has since had minor roles in The Break Up, Iron Man 2
and Entourage, while appearing in advertising campaigns for Sketchers,
Nike and Elastiderm.
She was also spotted out and about with Entourage cast member Adrian Grenier while in Cannes.
Stunning: The couple became engaged in 2009 and married in California in 2010
Glamorous: Cleary, 32, works on Deal or No Deal and has featured in a handful of movies and TV shows
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