Jane Fonda and Ted Turner finalise divorce

A judge has granted Jane Fonda a divorce from CNN founder Ted Turner, ending nearly a decade of marriage.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Gail Tusan granted Fonda's divorce petition, which she filed last month. The couple announced in January 2000 that they were separating.

The couple, who married in December 1991, split over Fonda's decision to become a Christian. Turner said he was shocked by the decision, while she said she had not told him because he would have tried to talk her out of it.

Fonda's divorce filing said only that the marriage was "irretrievably broken", standard language for a divorce petition in Georgia.

Turner, the 62-year-old billionaire founder of the Cable News Network, said in an interview published last month: "She just came home and said, 'I've become a Christian.' Before that, she was not a religious person.

"That's a pretty big change for your wife of many years to tell you. That's a shock."

Fonda, 63, said in a statement: "I feel sadness. We shared 10 years together, and I will always care for him. Now it's time to move on, and I wish him well."

Fonda's lawyer John C Mayoue declined to discuss details of the divorce settlement except to say that "all issues are resolved".

Fonda, a two-time Oscar winner, told the magazine: "My becoming a Christian upset him very much - for good reason. He's my husband and I chose not to discuss it with him - because he would have talked me out of it."