Back to 2011: The Year in Deaths and Breakups
Jack White and Karen Elson
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Just four months after the White Stripes announced their end, Jack White and his musician wife Karen Elson revealed, via a statement, that they were breaking up. To prove it wasn't an acrimonious split, the couple invited friends to a divorce party on their sixth anniversary, promising that it would be a "positive swing bang hum dinger."
