Sylvester Stallone denies any wrongdoing with marital assets

Sylvester Stallone has responded to his estranged wife Jennifer Flavin’s divorce filing, and denied any wrongdoing with their joint marital assets. 

Flavin, 54, filed for divorce from Stallone after 25 years of marriage just days before DailyMail.com revealed that the actor had a giant tattoo of Flavin on his right bicep covered up with a picture of Butkus, Rocky’s bull mastiff from the hit movies. 

On Tuesday, it was revealed that Stallone, 76, has now denied Flavin’s allegations that he ‘engaged in the intentional dissipation, depletion and/or waste of marital assets which has had an adverse economic impact on the marital estate,’ PEOPLE reports. 

In court documents filed in Palm Beach County, Florida, Stallone’s legal reps said the actor had ‘not engaged’ in that sort of conduct.

Additionally, Stallone opposed his estranged wife’s request to have ‘exclusive use’ of their home in Palm Beach. 

Flavin had earlier asked for sole use of the palatial property as the divorce played out.

In regards to legal costs and lawyers’ fees, Flavin requested that the court be mindful of the ‘conduct of each party’ that could possibly draw out the process. She asked the court to encourage ‘mutual cooperation’ in order to ‘reduce the cost’ of legal matters.

Stallone said in his response that Flavin had ‘hired counsel to represent her and agreed to pay them their legal fees.’

Split: Stallone was also in agreement that their marriage was ‘irretrievably broken’; pictured March 2022

The Rambo star did not oppose her petition to ‘restore’ her maiden name. 

Stallone was also in agreement that their marriage was ‘irretrievably broken.’

DailyMail.com exclusively revealed, just days before news of their split emerged, that Stallone had covered a tattoo of Flavin on his arm with a picture of Butkus, Rocky’s bull mastiff from the hit movies. 

Shortly afterwards, it emerged that Flavin — a former model and Stallone’s third wife — is divorcing him after 25 years of marriage. The split has shocked Hollywood, where their partnership was regarded as one of the fickle film world’s more enduring unions. 

The story, however, has become even more astonishing with claims that their  rottweiler Dwight was the immediate cause of the break-up. Stallone dotes on Dwight — the name of his character in a new TV drama series, Tulsa King — and has posted gushing videos and photos of the pet on social media. 

25 years strong: The split has shocked Hollywood, where their partnership was regarded as one of the fickle film world’s more enduring unions; pictured 2016

Family insiders told website TMZ that the actor wanted the dog to help protect the family at their homes in Los Angeles and Palm Beach, Florida.

But — while they already own other dogs — Flavin didn’t want a huge rottweiler in the house and strenuously objected. Their disagreement over Dwight allegedly caused a huge row that brought up other issues between the couple, culminating in her decision to press the nuclear button.

It remains tantalisingly unclear whether Stallone decided on the less-than-tactful tattoo modification before or after Flavin told him she was leaving him.

Almost forever: Stallone had Flavin’s face inked on his upper arm 

Tatt’s telling: Flavin, 54, filed for divorce from Stallone after 25 years of marriage just days before DailyMail.com revealed that the actor had a giant tattoo of Flavin on his right bicep covered up with a picture of Butkus, Rocky’s bull mastiff from the hit movies

Certainly, the couple appear to have strongly diverging opinions on dogs in general. Stallone once complained on a chat show that Flavin had had a previous pet dog neutered because she felt the colour of its private parts didn’t go with the curtains.

Stallone has conceded that the couple — who have three daughters: Sistine, Scarlet and Sophia — had argued over the dog but insisted that it wasn’t the real cause of their divorce. ‘We did not end the relationship on such a trivial argument,’ he told TMZ. ‘We just went in different directions. I have the highest respect for Jennifer. I will always love her. She’s an amazing woman.

‘She’s the nicest human being I’ve ever met.’ He has said he loves his family and ‘we are amicably and privately addressing these issues’.

Friends say Stallone, who once described his third wife as having a capacity for forgiveness ‘almost of Biblical proportions’, was ‘blindsided’ by her announcement that she wanted to divorce, which came while he was away filming in Oklahoma City.