Marriage a sham for glamour couple

Danielle Spencer was snapped in Sydney as news came out that her marriage to Russell Crowe is over / Pic: Adam Taylor Source: Supplied

Actor Russell Crow with wife Danielle Spencer and their sons in 2010 on Hollywood Blvd

MUST C Russell Crowe's wife Danielle Spencer wraps her arms around her 'Dancing with the Stars' partner, Damian Whitewood / Pic: Splash Source: The Daily Telegraph

Russell Crowe rides his bike through Tribecathis week in New York City / Pic: Josiah Kamau/BuzzFoto/FilmMagic Source: The Daily Telegraph

RUSSELL Crowe and Danielle Spencer have been living in separate homes for more than a year while keeping up the public persona of one of Australia's most esteemed celebrity couples, it was revealed yesterday.

As the entertainment world absorbed the news that the pair had split just a few months shy of their 10-year wedding anniversary, claims surfaced that they had been estranged since late last year.

While the rumoured reasons behind the break-up flitted between Crowe's hectic filming schedule and Spencer's long-suspected relationship with her Dancing With The Stars partner Damien Whitewood, friends of the pair admitted that when Crowe has come back to Sydney, he has remained at his expansive Woolloomooloo Wharf penthouse apartment while Spencer and the couple's two sons have been living at the $10 million Rose Bay house they bought only last year following a long search.

As of last night, neither party had made an official comment on the marriage breakdown, with Crowe getting back to work on Darren Aronofsky's biblical epic Noah in New York while Spencer remained holed up in her eastern suburbs abode.

According to neighbours, the pretty slice of suburbia has never been home to the family of four.

"(There were) no signs a man had even lived there," said one, gesturing the interiors were particularly "girly".

But despite the apparent estrangement, Crowe and Spencer have been seen together on a few occasions, most notably a well-publicised walk in Los Angeles after pictures of Spencer and Whitewood out partying together were made public in June. The shots - published in The Sunday Telegraph - were taken by a patron inside The Star casino's cocktail bar Cherry and showed the dance partners with their arms around each other.

Days later, Spencer flew to LA and walked hand-in-hand with Crowe through the streets of Beverly Hills before a pack of photographers.

However cracks in the relationship were first floated earlier last year at the relaunch of The Star in September, when the pair arrived together on the red carpet but were apart and acted "frosty" towards each other for the rest of the evening.

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Crowe had spent almost all of 2011 overseas working on at least three different films. When Spencer starred on Dancing With The Stars earlier this year, her husband's absence from the Sunday night live shows was well-noted.

A backstage source at Channel 7 claimed the Oscar winner sent his wife a bunch of roses for Mothers Day, but Spencer "looked at them and gave them away" to someone else.

"There was pretty much no mention of (Russell) backstage," the source said.

"It's like it was understood not to talk about him or something.

"She didn't want to be known as Russell Crowe's wife - she wanted to be Danielle Spencer, the singer-songwriter."

Crowe is also said to have sent a basket filled with Belvedere Vodka and everything needed to make vodka lime sodas - Spencer's favourite drink - including limes, a knife, chopping board and San Pellegrino soda. "Only the vodka was touched," the source said.

Crowe is believed to have been "blindsided" by the fact the couple's break-up had now been made public.

The 48-year-old recently made a whistlestop return from the Big Apple set of Noah to watch his beloved South Sydney rugby league team get beaten by Canterbury in an emotional playoff for an NRL grand final spot.

But he and Spencer were not sighted together during the visit.

Close confidants say that rather than his work being solely responsible for the breakdown of the marriage, it seems the Hollywood action star has spent the year preparing a war chest in readiness for divorce. Crowe will likely earn between $80 and $100 million this year from his work in films Man With The Iron Fist, Les Miserables, Broken City, Man Of Steel and Noah.

Although Spencer, 43, is believed to have signed a pre-nup worth about $20 million in cash and property, including the Rose Bay home, the actor will undoubtedly look after his sons - Charles, 8 and Tennyson, 6 - who remain his first priority.

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