bruce-springsteen

*Update*

Long Branch, N.J. – Bruce Springsteen is being accused of philandering again, this time by the husband of a woman he apparently met in a gym. Arthur Kelly, a New Jersey businessman, has filed divorce papers in a Monmouth County Court that name The Boss as the reason for the break-up of his 17-year marriage to Ann Kelley.

Springsteen, who turns 60 on Sept. 23, also has been married for 17 years, to Patti Scialfa, with whom he has three children.

Kelly filed the papers March 27, according to Star Magazine, which acquired a copy.

The paper reports that Kelly, now estranged from his wife, claimed that his she “committed adultery with one Bruce Springsteen, who resides in Rumson, N.J., and Colts Neck, N.J., at various times and places too numerous to mention.”

Springsteen has not responded to the allegations, and The Star reports that a source close to the wife told them that “…she and Bruce are just friends…”

This is not the first time Springsteen has had to face accusations of infidelity. He denied reports in  2006 that he had had an affair with a New Jersey “widow” he’d known since 2001, and there were old stories that he was fooling around with Scialfa while still married to his first wife, Julianne Philips.

UPDATE

Thank God, it looks like we may have been wrong.

The ‘other woman,’ Ann Kelly, has told the Daily News she and Springsteen did not have an affair. Her dad, a lawyer, backs her up and says they only had a “speaking relationship,” and that the son-in-law is making it all up. The Boss issued a strongly worded denial, too, sort of. The accusations by the husband are so specific, however, that it’s hard to see how he can just go, oops. If he lied, his ass is Springsteen’s, legally speaking.