When it comes to separating spouses, it’s a family affair for Al Gore and his daughter.
A week after former Vice President Gore and his wife announced their separation, family friends have confirmed that the couple’s oldest daughter Karenna Gore Schiff is splitting from her husband of 12 years.
Karenna Gore, 36, and Andrew “Drew” Schiff, 44, have been “separated for a couple of months and in marriage counseling,” a friend of the couple told People.com today.
The couple lives in New York and has three children, Wyatt, 10; Anna, 8; and Oscar, 3.
Another friend of the Gore family said the split is “amicable.”
“They are in counseling. They are not divorced,” the source told People.
Kalee Kreider, a spokeswoman for the former vice president, said she had no comment.
Meanwhile, Al Gore is in the Philippines and still wearing his wedding ring. Last week, Al and Tipper announced they were separating after 40 years of marriage.
The former lovebirds — who for decades incorporated their professed passion into their political personas — announced a “mutual” separation.
Gone are the days of Gore’s overly passionate lip lock with Tipper at the 2000 Democratic National Convention or her effusive gushing of her hubby’s irresistible “animal magnetism,” associates said.
Since reinventing himself as a crusader against global warming in the wake of losing the 2000 presidential election, the Nobel Prize-winning Gore, 62, has crisscrossed the world to lecture, but rarely crossed paths with Tipper, 61.
“Their lives had gotten more and more separated,” one associate said.
Other friends reported that the Gores said they “grew apart” but there was no infidelity.
Throughout the 1990s while Gore served as Bill Clinton’s vice president, the Gores’ loving marriage was glowingly portrayed in the media to the stark contrast of the Clintons’ troubles. And her fun-loving personality — costume parties for Halloween and jamming with rock bands — served as a contrast to Gore’s plastic image.