Celebrity athletes and their high-profile breakups

On the heels of rumors that Kim Kardashian and NBA player Kris Humphries are divorcing, here’s a look other athletes’ relationships in the spotlight.

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Eva Longoria Parker, left, and basketball star Tony Parker arrive at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards in August 2010. The couple, together for seven years, divorced in January 2011.

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Los Angeles Lakers' Rick Fox and his wife, actress Vanessa Williams, watch the match between Serena Williams and Corina Morariu during the first round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament in August 2002 in New York. Fox filed for divorce from Williams in 2004 after five years of marriage.

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NBA star Dennis Rodman and his wife, Carmen Electra, pose for photographers in February 1999 during a press conference in Beverly Hills. The pair were married November 1998 to April 1999.

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Actress Brooke Shields and tennis star Andre Agassi are shown in December 1996. They were married in April 1997 and divorced two years later.

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Actress Halle Berry and her husband, Atlanta Braves outfielder David Justice, react to a standing ovation at Bannaker High School in Atlanta, in May 1993. The couple, married in January 1993, separated in 1996 and divorced in 1997.

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Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson and his wife, actress Robin Givens, leave the New York State Supreme Court in July 1988 after a court hearing with Tyson's manager. They were married just over a year, from February 1988 to February 1989.

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U.S. tennis champion John McEnroe and U.S. actress Tatum O'Neal, shown in June 1985 at the Pavillon Gabriel, Paris, for a gala dinner, were married in 1986 and divorced in 1994. McEnroe later married musician Patty Smyth.

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Marilyn Monroe and New York Yankees' baseball great Joe DiMaggio eloped in San Francisco in January 1954 and had a short, tumultuous marriage. She filed for divorce nine months after the wedding.

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