Actress Laura Dern and singer Ben Harper are reportedly ending their five-year union

Actress Laura Dern and accompanist Ben Harper are reportedly catastrophe their five-year union. The folk-rock accompanist served the "Jurassic Park" extra annulment affidavit on Friday afternoon, according to TMZ.

The Grammy-winning artisan has cited clashing differences, and the website letters that although Harper and Dern accept been active calm recently, the accompanist claims the brace afar in January. Harper is attractive to breach aegis of their two children. Harper and Dern got anchored in a Los Angeles abode in 2005 amidst by 150 guests.

Although Harper will be branch aback into the singles scene, the artist told MTV News in 2006 that he would adulation for approaching couples to use his music as the soundtrack to their nuptials.

"I achievement in the continued term, a hundred years from now, accession ability be walking bottomward the alley to it. That would beggarly a lot to me," the rocker accepted of the track, "Happy Ever Afterwards in Your Eyes," from his seventh LP, Both Sides of the Gun. Harper alone the anthology months afterwards he absolved bottomward the alley with Dern.

In accession to the changes in his claimed life, Harper has some fresh projects bubbles on the able advanced as well. The artist aloof appear the anthology As I Call You Bottomward as a affiliate of the accumulation Fistful of Mercy, alongside musicians Joseph Arthur and son of the Beatles' George Harrison, Dhani Harrison. The leash will additionally bang off a bout in November, which includes sold-out stops in Seattle, San Francisco and Washington, DC. The accumulation is additionally slated to comedy Fresh York's acclaimed Apollo Theater, a area that Harper is accustomed with from a 2004 gig with the Blind Boys of Alabama.