The Gores’ informed friends of the separation through e-mail, according to the Associated Press. In their message, they called the break-up a “mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful, consideration.”
Once one of Washington’s most celebrated couples, Al and Tipper Gore have not been in the public eye as much as a twosome since the then-vice president’s narrow defeat to George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential campaign.
Al Gore declined to run for president again in 2004, but emerged as a leading spokesman in the environmental movement, especially on climate change. He won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar in 2007 for the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” He is also a co-founder with Joel Hyatt of the cable network Current TV.
-Politics Daily