Roger Waters files for divorce from fifth wife Kamilah Chavis in New York

The filing

Roger Waters, the 83-year-old Pink Floyd co-founder, has asked the New York Supreme Court to dissolve his marriage to Kamilah Chavis, his fifth wife. According to court documents that People said it had seen, the papers were submitted on 10 November 2026. Reports of the filing appeared on 13 November 2026. The case is classified as a contested divorce, which means at least one question between the couple is still unresolved. Beyond that classification, the contents of the filing have not been made public. No reasons for the separation have emerged so far, and the coverage cites no statement from either Waters or Chavis.

Marriage and courtship

Waters and Chavis announced their wedding in October 2021, when he posted photos from the celebration on Facebook and wrote that he had found the right person at last. He was 78 at the time, and the filing came after five years of marriage. According to La Vanguardia and El Mundo, the two met in 2016, when Chavis worked as a driver during the Coachella festival and took the musician between his hotel and the concert site. El Mundo describes her as a US citizen who worked as a professional driver. In a 2018 interview with the Argentine outlet Infobae, Waters said his bodyguard sat beside her in the front seat and that something about her drew him in.

Earlier marriages

The filing would end Waters's fifth marriage, following four earlier ones. His first wife was the ceramicist Judith Trim, and he later married Carolyne Christie, with whom he had two children, Harry and India. Priscilla Phillips followed, and the couple had a son, Jack, before they separated in 2001. His fourth marriage was to the actress and director Laurie Durning, from whom he separated in 2015 after three years of marriage. The earlier marriages make the Chavis filing the latest in a long series of separations in Waters's personal life.

What is still unknown

Coverage so far does not explain why the couple is separating, and the filing itself is described only as contested. El Mundo reported that Waters has discussed Chavis in the press only twice, in 2018 and in a 2023 Facebook post. In that 2023 post he said the couple had visited the Friedhof am Perlacher Forst in Munich, where Sophie and Hans Scholl are buried, and had laid white roses on their graves. El Mundo also considered an interview with Waters on the divorce unlikely. The next step will depend on the court process, and none of the six articles gives a hearing date.