Pietra Dawn Thornton, the young and beautiful ex-spouse of Oscar-winning writer/actor Billy Bob Thornton and the mother of his two sons, is on the rise again. Many of you in the media remember the headlines in 1997/98 and Billy Bob’s Oscar for Slingblade and the butterfly-from-cocoon appearance of the unknown exotic beauty at his side that night: Pietra. For six years, up to that point, their marriage was struggling. The entertainment world was then shocked when within a few days after the worldwide Oscar Broadcast, Pietra filed for divorce. The tabloids and main line media had a field day. The divorce and the messy proceedings with charges and countercharges were frontpage stories including the cover of USA Today and the AP. Interviews with Pietra and news of their divorce on national TV included Inside Edition, Entertainment Tonight, Hard Copy, E-Entertainment Television, Newsweek and Time Magazine and many of the 6 o’clock news hours coast to coast.
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