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Today in shocking celebrity split stories that are unlikely to be true: Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have reportedly separated after 13 years together.

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UPDATE: Will and Jada responded to the rumors this afternoon, stating: "Although we are reluctant to respond to these types of press reports, the rumors circulating about our relationship are completely false. We are still together, and our marriage is intact."

Will's son Trey previously posted on Twitter that the breakup rumors were false. He wrote: "Did #WillandJada split? No they did NOT split! False information ... its not true RETWEET!!! Everyone can think what they want ... even if its not true."

Jada's rep also chimed in, shutting down rumors that the split was caused by the actress' alleged affair with her newly single Hawthorne co-star Marc Anthony. "All the rumors regarding Marc Anthony and Jada are false. Completely untrue. As for [the reports of a split between] Will and Jada, I'm not commenting on their personal life," Karynne Tencer told People.

Anthony's rep echoed the sentiments: "We unequivocally deny this. Enough is enough. There are families involved, children involved, friendships involved. This is NOT true."

The info originally came from tabloid InTouch Weekly, which isn't the most reputable source for factual news, but we gave this story a bit more credit because it was picked up by TMZ. Now, the site might be in the business of salacious celeb gossip, however they have broken some huge stories -- like Michael Jackson's death, Britney Spears' divorce, Brittany Murphy's passing, Paris Hilton's jail sentence, Mel Gibson's anti-Semetic rant, and more.

The alleged split seemed a bit shocking considering the famous couple appears to have a happy, healthy relationship and family. They're even Zimbio's 6th hottest couple of 2011 with a staying power score of a perfect 10. Will and Jada are nothing short of adorable together, their kids Willow and Jaden are pretty awesome, not to mention talented, and the couple made the world a better place by opening an elementary school together.

However, their relationship was a bit unconventional. The couple talked about their open marriage and admitted getting physical with someone else wasn't off the table -- as long as there was a discussion about it beforehand.

Will said in a 2008 interview: "If it came down to it, then one would say to the other: 'Look, I need to have sex with somebody. Now I’m not going to do it if you don’t approve of it.' In our marriage vows, we didn't say 'forsaking all others.' We said, 'You will never hear I did something afterward.' Because if that happens, the relationship is destroyed."
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The whole open marriage thing is very tricky, and typically has a low success rate, but these two had apparently been making it work for over a decade. They said "I do" at the Cloisters Mansion in Baltimore on New Year's Eve 1997 after meeting on the set of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air back in 1990. Jada auditioned for the role of Will's character's girlfriend but producers said she was too short. Though the onscreen relationship didn't work out, the two remained friends and began dating in 1995.

As of this morning, TMZ had contacted Jada's rep, Karynne Tencer, who said she was in the dark about the split. She said: "What? In Touch said that? I know nothing about this ... Lord. I'm going back to bed."

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