Marriage a sham for glamour couple

Russell Crowe and wife of nine years Danielle Spencer have separated. Video courtesy AAP

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

Danielle Spencer is driven from her home to a record company Elizabeth St, Surry Hills the day news came out that her marriage to Russell Crowe is over. Picture: Adam Taylor Source: Supplied

Don Spencer with his Danielle Spencer during her time on Dancing With The Stars. Picture: Channel 7 Source: Supplied

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

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

• Couple have been living in separate homes
• They were frosty to each other at Star relaunch
• Spencer did not want to be known as Mrs Crowe on DWTS
• Crowe has spent the year building up a war chest

DANIELLE Spencer's dad has spoken out about her split from actor Russell Crowe, saying he still loves them both.

Don Spencer said he is "sad" following news of his daughter's split from Crowe but still "loves them both," the former TV presenter told WHO exclusively.

"I love them both and am naturally sad as any father would be in this situation," the former Play School presenter told WHO in the wake of reports his musician daughter has split from the Oscar-winning actor after nine years of marriage.

Earlier, Danielle Spencer's Dancing With The Stars partner Damian Whitewood described the split as "sad".

Whitewood, a professional dancer, is rumoured to be at the centre of the split, with suggestions he and Spencer had become more than just friends when they competed together on the last season of DWTS.

As Spencer danced on the show in Melbourne, Crowe was based in London filming the Hollywood adaptation of Les Miserables.

"Wow!, Sad and crazy news day full of rumors I didn't ask for!'' Whitewood wrote on Twitter from his Santa Monica, California, home today.

Intimate photographs of Whitewood and Spencer cuddling at The Star's Cherry Lounge bar were published in The Sunday Telegraph in July.

Whitewood previously partnered Pamela Anderson on an American season of Dancing With The Stars.

Meanwhile, Crowe has also been active on Twitter but has had nothing to say about the rumoured split after nine years of marriage to Spencer.

Today he wrote of his vigorous exercise regime: "18 km stat bike, 25 mins weights, now for Yoga."

Some of Crowe's followers responded with messages saying they wished him well through a difficult time. The actor has not yet spoken about the breakup.

Spencer will reportedly walk away from the marriage with at least $15 million with the couple understood to have signed a pre-nuptial agreement following their wedding in 2003.

Crowe, who is worth well in excess of $80million, is also reported to have a $3million trust fund set aside for both sons Charles, 8, and Tennyson, 6.

It was revealed yesterday that Crowe and Spencer were 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 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.

Danielle Spencer seen out the front of her house in Rose Bay with no wedding ring on the finger. Picture: Adam Taylor Source: News Limited

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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."

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

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.

Danielle Spencer after official reports are saying that their marriage is over after nine years together. Picture: Adam Taylor Source: News Limited

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