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Villaraigosa and wife to separate

By Duke Helfand, Times Staff Writer
3:59 PM PDT, June 8, 2007

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced today that he and his wife of more than 20 years were separating, and a spokesman said that the family would be physically splitting up sometime next week.

"Each of us loves our children more than anything in the world, and we are committed to working together for their benefit," Villaraigosa said in a statement. "I ask that the media and the public respect our privacy through this painful period of transition."

A spokesman said that Villaraigosa was taking the weekend off but that he would be temporarily moving out of Getty House, the mayor's official residence in Windsor Square, next week.

The mayor will live during a transition period in his former hilltop home in Mount Washington. His wife, Corina, and their two teenage children will initially remain at Getty House during the separation.

duke.helfand@latimes.com