Just when we thought that the Turner-Jonas situation would end up with an amicable divorce things just hit the fan as Sophie Tuner decided to take legal action against her former husband. Although our ‘Queen in the North’ had remained silent throughout all the gossip around her separation a couple of weeks ago, she’s just called her banners and is willing to fight!
Early this Thursday, it was revealed that Turner had filed a lawsuit in a Manhattan courtroom against Joe Jonas requesting “the immediate return of the children taken or wrongfully retained.” According to the file, the couple had agreed to move to England before the divorce announcement, and the two girls were just taken to America while she was working on her new series Joan.
However, not that it’s time for the girls to go back with their mother, according to Turner’s suit, Joe doesn’t want to hand back their passports so that Sophie can take them with her.
Joe Jonas Fires Back
Now, just a few hours after the breaking news, Joe Jonas’s team opened up about the matter claiming that he’s not “abducting” his children. The singer’s legal rep issued a statement in which he explained that this lawsuit puts Joe in a “harsh legal position that goes against the amicable co-parenting setup” they had agreed on this past Sunday. Allegedly, the couple met to discuss custody of their two little girls.
The rep added that only 24 hours after the meeting, Sophie Turner told Joe Jonas she wanted to take the girls permanently and immediately to live with her in the UK. He added that Joe isn’t keeping the girls from her since they have been with Turner in New York in the past days. It’s worth noting that the Game of Thrones star, was just spotted having dinner with Taylor Swift in the Big Apple.
According to the rep, Joe isn’t against the girls living in the UK as long as they can also spend some time in the US as they had allegedly agreed upon. “Joe is seeking shared parenting with the kids so that they are raised by both their mother and father, and is of course also okay with the kids being raised both in the US and the UK.”
Sophie’s Legal Move
Joe Jonas is allegedly mad about the suit and the wording used since it makes him look bad. Now, the thing is that they can come up with any agreement regarding the custody of the girls but as long as the divorce suit isn’t concluded, neither Joe nor Sophie can relocate with their children.
So, it seems that Sophie’s suit is simply a legal action to move the divorce proceedings to the UK so she can move with the girls instead of being forced to stay in the US, where her only ties were with her former husband. As we can remember, Sophie Turner left everything to become a wife and mother, she just picked up this job recently.
Joe and the Smear Campaign Against Sophie
As we commented a few weeks ago, it seemed that the Jonas Brothers member had set his attention on making a bad image of Sophie Turner as a wife and mother. Now, his rep spoke about this claiming that this is not the case and he has “already disavowed any statements purportedly made on his behalf that were disparaging of Sophie.”
The statement added that all these comments and information coming from “close sources” were “made without his approval and are not consistent with his views.” Still, this new official statement coming from his legal rep insists on refuting Sophie’s claims as they now assure that it’s false that Turner learned about the divorce through the media. The rep added that “she was aware he was going to file for dissolution following ‘multiple conversations.'”