Chesney, Zellweger Split

Country music star and Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger are annulling their four-month-old marriage.

Zellweger listed "fraud" as the reason for the split in court papers filed on Wednesday, September 14th.

Chesney, 37, and Zellweger, 36, met at the Concert of Hope tsunami relief benefit in January, and wed in a small surprise ceremony in May, on the Caribbean island of St. John. It was the first marriage for both.

In 1999, Chesney was inspired to pen the hit tune "You Had Me From Hello" after watching Zellweger play opposite Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire.

Chesney was named CMA Entertainer of the Year last November and won Album of the Year for When the Sun Goes Down. Prior to Chesney, Zellweger had dated White Stripes frontman Jack White.

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Song Stories

“(We're Not) The Jet Set”

George Jones and Tammy Wynette | 1973

George Jones and Tammy Wynette were still married when they recorded the tongue-in-cheek "(We're Not) The Jet Set." The lyrics, written by Nashville songwriter Bobby Braddock, who also penned Wynette's "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" and Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today," make fun of the good life by declaring, "We're not the Jet Set/We're the old Chevrolet set." Braddock recalled that while writing the song, he needed the name of a city that evened out the rhyme he had with "Riviera" and "Missourah." “I got out a Rand McNally atlas," he said. "In the first part are the maps. The last part is an alphabetical listing of cities. I wanted a rustic, small-time sound. I went to the listing for Missouri. And I found 'Festus.' I loved the sound of it."

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