The messy just keeps getting messier for the former Camp Rock singer and Game of Thrones star, after their legal battle over who gets primary custody of the children is taking a turn.
Having filed for divorce in early September, Joe Jonas is now battling his soon-to-be ex-wife Sophie Turner over whether he unlawfully abducted his kids in an ongoing dispute over where they reside.
Turner, who is best known for her role as Sansa Stark in the hit TV series GoT, flew back to the US from England where she has been filming her new show to bring back her two daughters from the care of Jonas.
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The 27-year-old went on to claim in a lawsuit filed on 21 September that her former spouse was keeping the children’s passports from her so that she couldn’t take them back with her to England.
This led to a dispute over whether the family were residing or had plans to permanently relocate to the UK.
Now, court documents have revealed that just three months before 34-year-old Jonas filed for divorce from Turner, they were looking for a ‘forever home’ in England.
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According to Page Six and US Weekly, who obtained the documents, the letter is dated 16 June to the property owners of a Wallingford, Oxford house that he was interested in buying.
Trying to convince the owner to sell to his family, he wrote: “When my wife and I decided we were going to spend more time in the UK and search for a permanent home, our daughter expressed three unwavering requirements: having chickens, a pony and a Wendy house.”
“While many of the houses we viewed met this criteria, the moment we turned the corner and caught sight of the charming blue shutters adorning [redacted], we experienced a sense of magic unlike anything we had felt before.”
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This ‘simply heavenly’ home was a property that Jonas was set on living in, even going as far as to have Turner’s father to scope out the house for approval.
Jonas continued: “My father-in-law is an incredibly keen gardener, and he was suitably impressed by your vegetable garden too, a very important sign off!”
As per the court documents, the purchase of the property was set to be finalised on 2 December, with Turner claiming in the court filing that this has been months in the making before their divorce.
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The actress alleges that she and Jonas spoke in 2022 and ‘agreed and committed to relocate to England’ before leaving their home in Miami on 10 March 2023.
According to the court documents, their oldest daughter Willa has already been enrolled in a nursery full-time in England and that the family’s personal belongings had been shipped to the UK between May 5 and July 31, ready for the move.
But for the time being, both Turner and Jonas have agreed to keep their children in New York, according to documents filed on Monday 25 September in New York and obtained by People.
Joe Jonas' representative told UNILAD: "1. They did not buy the house. The house is in escrow, the sale never closed.
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"2. They have never been residents of the UK. Residency is a legal term and that is how the courts will define it. Residency includes things like where you have your driver’s license, where you vote, where your kids go to school, where you last lived as a family for a significant period of time (specifically 6 months). There is no place the family lived for 6 months or longer other than Florida.
"3. Intention, expressed in a letter or otherwise, does not equal residency. Actions do. And so while the letter was inserted in the motion in order to pique the attention of reporters, it won’t actually be material to determine legal residency."
Topics: Sophie Turner, Joe Jonas, Celebrity, UK News, News, Game of Thrones
Britt Jones