Jack Antonoff and Margaret Qualley have filed for divorce after three years of marriage.

The Daily Mail can confirm that Antonoff, the 42-year-old music producer known for his work with Taylor Swift, and Qualley, 32, formally filed the paperwork on Friday.

The former couple have also submitted a settlement agreement, although the document is still being processed by the court. The terms have not yet been made public.

Antonoff and Qualley began dating in 2021 before marrying two years later, in August 2023.

But just days after Swift married Travis Kelce, reports emerged that Antonoff and Qualley had quietly separated.

The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Antonoff and Qualley for comment but has not yet received a response.

Questions about their relationship began after Antonoff attended Swift and Kelce’s star-studded wedding with his sister Rachel in July, rather than Qualley, who was filming Possession at the time.

Around the same time, it emerged that Qualley had quietly removed photographs from the couple’s August 2023 wedding from her Instagram account.

Qualley and Antonoff were last seen together publicly at the Grammys in February 2026, where they appeared affectionate as they mingled with fellow music stars.

The gallery of snaps featured several throwback photos from the celebration. Though the original link no longer leads to a functioning webpage, a Qualley fan page on X reposted them.

A review of Qualley’s Instagram feed now shows no photographs of Antonoff, including images from around their August 2023 wedding.

Her latest social media post involving her husband was an Instagram Story marking his birthday on March 31. The post disappeared after the platform’s 24-hour expiry period.

The image showed the musician with his arm around Qualley, who wrote in the caption: ‘Happy birthday sweetheart.’

On April 28, Qualley also changed her Instagram username from @isimostar to @sarahmargaretqualley23.

The change is particularly notable because Antonoff released a 2024 song titled Isimo with his band Bleachers.

Qualley’s absence from the wedding of the year came 11 months after she gave an awkward response to being asked why her husband was not producing one of Swift’s albums.

The actress appeared caught off guard when Today co-host Craig Melvin mentioned The Life of a Showgirl in their sit-down.

After noting that Antonoff has ‘produced for Taylor for years’ and has ‘an album that’s coming out,’ the journalist asked Qualley to ‘tell us about’ the record.

‘I don’t know anything,’ she replied as her eyes widened in surprise.  

Qualley proceeded to let out an awkward laugh before adding, ‘I’ll be excited to listen to the music.’

Melvin responded with a pointed, ‘OK. Alright,’ signaling he wasn’t entirely convinced she was as out of the loop as she claimed.

Antonoff has served as Swift’s primary co-songwriter and producer on her most recent albums, 2022’s Midnights and 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department. 

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Her latest record, however, was produced by Max Martin and Shellback. 

Swift fans famously swarmed Qualley and Antonoff’s wedding rehearsal dinner in 2023.

The couple were engaged the year prior after being romantically linked in 2021.

They married at Parker’s Garage in Long Beach, New Jersey, with guests including Swift, model Cara Delevingne and Lana Del Rey in attendance.

The daughter of actress Andie MacDowell was the epitome of elegance in a white, halter-styled wedding gown with a plunging neckline. 

The former couple was first romantically linked back in August 2021, and later attended the Critics’ Choice Awards together in March 2022, seemingly publicly confirming their budding relationship. 

Just two months later in May, the beauty sparked engagement rumors when she was seen wearing an eye-catching diamond ring while at the Cannes Film Festival. Later that same month, it was confirmed Antonoff had popped the big question. 

In 2024, Qualley said she had experienced love at first sight with Antonoff.  

In an interview with Elle UK, she reflected on the early days of her romance with the music producer.

Just two weeks after meeting the Grammy winner, she knew she wanted to marry him and confided in creative director Virginie Viard at the Chanel haute couture show in the summer of 2021.

‘I’d met Jack probably two weeks before, but I was head-over-heels in love right away,’ Qualley revealed. ‘I had a sure, knowing feeling that he was my husband.’

Keeping to her word, Qualley and Antonoff did in fact get married on August 19, 2023, which was almost exactly two years to the day that she made her profound prediction.

In an interview on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show, Antonoff said that he knew he would marry Qualley the ‘second’ they first met at a party in 2021.

‘I saw her, and it was like a f***ing Hallmark movie that doesn’t seem believable. When I met her, I started imagining things that I’d never even imagined, like marriage.’

Before their marriage, Antonoff was notably in a five-year romance with actress Lena Dunham, which ended in 2017.

He then dated model Carlotta Kohl from 2018-2020. 

Qualley made her acting debut in the drama film Palo Alto (2013), but she would gain worldwide recognition for her role in the hit HBO series The Leftovers (2014-2017).

The Montana native subsequently appeared in films such as The Nice Guys (2016), Death Note (2017), Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019), My Salinger Year (2020) and Poor Things (2023).

She received critical acclaim and nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards for playing Ann Reinking in the FX biographical miniseries Fosse/Verdon (2019) and the title role in the drama miniseries Maid (2021).

Antonoff is the lead singer of rock band The Bleachers, but many fans know him for his work with Swift as a co-writer and producer on her albums 1989 (2014), Reputation (2017), Lover (2019), Folklore (2020), Evermore (2020), and Midnights (2022).

The Bergenfield, New Jersey, native worked with the pop superstar on her re-recorded albums, producing most of the From The Vault tracks that were not included on the original albums.

During his career, the musician has also worked with such other musical artists as Lorde, The 1975, St. Vincent, Lana Del Rey, Florence and the Machine, Fifth Harmony, The Chicks, Carly Rae Jepsen, Clairo, Tegan and Sara and Kevin Abstract, among others.

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s utility rebate checks are arriving in New York households, just days before voters decide whether to give the governor another term.

The payments began going out in September and will continue through December. An estimated 8.2 million households are set to receive between $100 and $200.

The $1 billion rebate program was included in the state budget approved in May. Hochul has promoted the payments as relief for rising energy bills, which have climbed between 27% and 46% during her tenure.

But Bruce Blakeman, the Republican Nassau County executive challenging Hochul in the November 3 election, has branded the checks a “big election-year scam.”

Blakeman previously dismissed the payments — calculated using income reported on 2024 tax returns — as “peanuts” and questioned how much difference they would make for New Yorkers struggling with everyday expenses.

Blakeman is not the only figure criticizing the rebate checks.

On Monday, two senior aides to Mayor Zohran Mamdani also criticized one-time payments, arguing that they “disempower” residents without addressing the underlying drivers of high costs, AMNY first reported.

“One-time handouts disempower people,” Mamdani’s Chief of Staff Elle Bisgaard-Church said at the New York City Policy Forum. “Means-tested programs segregate and encumber people. Private sector capture extracts wealth and tilts programs away from public welfare.”

Lina Khan, another Mamdani appointee and chair of the New York City Economic Development Corporation board, expressed a similar view, saying New York needs a broader, systemwide shift to help residents.

“This is not as much about one-time checks. This is not about one-time tax breaks,” Khan said, pointing to corporate greed as a factor driving sharply higher costs.

“It’s really about how do we address some of the upstream drivers,” said Khan, who served as chair of the Federal Trade Commission under President Joe Biden.

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Bisgaard-Church and Khan were not speaking specifically about Hochul’s rebate program.

Khan also did not weigh in when the state’s program was discussed later during the forum.

City Hall, meanwhile, expressed support for Hochul’s rebate plan in a statement issued Friday.

“We welcome all solutions that deliver for working families, including shorter-term solutions that provide immediate relief to working New Yorkers and longer-term structural changes that alleviate their key cost burdens,” a Mamdani spokesperson told The Post. “Our North Star is creating shared economic security and stability through material programs.”

Still, the apparent tension between Mamdani’s aides and policies such as Hochul’s rebate program underscored the sharp divide between the democratic socialist mayor and the moderate governor. The two appeared together on the campaign trail for the first time just three days before the policy forum.

Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists of America allies have repeatedly urged Hochul to embrace their “tax the rich” agenda. The mayor’s fervent young supporters have even booed her at previous appearances alongside Mamdani.

Hochul has pledged not to raise income taxes, although she did support the controversial pied-à-terre tax, which was intended to generate millions of dollars for the city.

Hochul’s resistance to Mamdani’s left-wing policies could be weakening as she seeks to win over his voter base Tuesday while pursuing a second four-year term.

On Wednesday, Hochul declined to say whether she would give in to Mamdani’s campaign to “tax the rich” if re-elected, offering instead a vague, word-salad response.

“There are no quid pro quos for us supporting each other I want to have a relationship with the mayor of New York,” she said — refusing to repeat her past comments outright opposing Mamdani’s tax plans.

Hochul and Blakeman were separated by around 14 points a week ahead of the election, with the Democratic governor leading her GOP challenger about 54% to 40%, a Sienna University poll found.

The Trump administration has launched an extraordinary last-minute effort to contest Alaska’s Senate race—despite the fact that voters have not yet cast their ballots.

The contest was thrown into turmoil this week after a bombshell report alleged that Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign helped put forward a candidate sharing the name of her Republican rival, Dan Sullivan, potentially giving her an advantage at the polls.

Peltola’s campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee are now the subjects of a criminal investigation launched by Alaska’s Republican governor. Investigators are examining allegations that they helped recruit the candidate dubbed “Decoy” Dan Sullivan.

Separately, a civil lawsuit filed by the Justice Department earlier this year is considering whether Alaska would be able to certify the election results if the incumbent, Dan Sullivan, is defeated.

The Cook Political Report has classified the Alaska Senate contest as a toss-up. With control of Congress potentially at stake, the race is being closely watched by both parties.

President Donald Trump has urged prosecutors to charge Peltola following the report, accusing Democrats of election “fraud” and calling for both Peltola and the “Decoy” Dan to be disqualified from the ballot.

However, legal specialists told the Daily Mail that the Justice Department’s civil case—and Trump’s demand for a federal criminal prosecution—face significant obstacles and are unlikely to progress.

Rick Hasen, a University of California, Los Angeles, professor who specializes in election law, said a criminal prosecution would rest on a weak legal foundation and would almost certainly fail.

Hasen said political parties routinely support rival candidates for strategic reasons, such as Republicans backing Green Party contenders or Democrats supporting Libertarians. He described the Alaska situation as an unusually aggressive example of a familiar tactic.

Although the Justice Department could still attempt to bring charges, Hasen said he believed such a case would not withstand legal scrutiny.

He also said the second Dan Sullivan would probably invoke his First Amendment rights. Those protections, Hasen argued, would likely carry more weight than any conspiracy theory based on the candidate’s alleged motives for entering the race.

“I don’t see how the government could criminalize his running for office for having impure motives.”

Even if prosecutors could establish the underlying allegations, Hasen noted that accepting such a theory could make ordinary campaign tactics criminal whenever a party supports an opposing candidate it believes would be easier to defeat later. Strategic efforts of that kind, he said, occur frequently in American politics.

Using a candidate’s name to create voter confusion is also far from unprecedented in U.S. elections.

During Washington’s 2024 Democratic gubernatorial primary, two additional candidates shared the name of Democratic state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. According to CNN, both candidates were paid by a Republican activist who hoped their presence would confuse voters.

The tactic dates back even further. In the mid-1950s, John Francis Kennedy used the fame of Massachusetts Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy to win the office of state treasurer, despite running without a public campaign or backing from a political party.

The Justice Department’s separate civil action appears to center, at least partly, on potential conspiracy allegations, adding another legal front to the increasingly contentious Alaska Senate race.

That being whether Democrats knowingly recruited Dan J Sullivan on Peltola’s behalf, as part of a broader effort to confuse and or deprive Alaskans of their votes. Or whether Dan J Sullivan himself knowingly aimed to deprive voters.

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Derek Muller, an election law expert and professor at Notre Dame Law, described the Alaska civil lawsuit as ‘one of the worst’ he had ever seen.

The attempt to invalidate the state election results in the event of Democratic win is seen as very weak.

Alaska has gone to great lengths to distinguish the two candidates on the ballot – including by adding their middle initials and the full name Daniel J Sullivan, as opposed to Dan S Sullivan, the GOP incumbent.

Finally, they explicitly list Dan S Sullivan as ‘incumbent’ – making clear who is who. 

Trump has insisted voters still need a ‘190 IQ’ to get the ballot right as most people ‘don’t know what incumbent means.’

Regarding possible criminal charges, Muller stressed the many unknowns – and that ‘further investigation is essential’ to determine whether the charges should be brought by federal prosecutors.

‘I do wonder if there were campaign finance violations committed here,’ Muller said in a post on the Election Law Blog.

‘We’ll have to wait and see how contributions were structured, and whether some where appropriately made but simply difficult to find in the disclosure data, or whether some were in violation of law.’

As far as possible charges of conspiracy to violate the National Voting Rights Act, Muller theorized on where the line might be drawn between ‘ordinary politics’ and ‘dirty tricks’ – and when that ‘crosses into behavior that is designed to prevent voters from exercising a choice.’

‘I think the voters have been appropriately informed, and there is little likelihood of actual confusion,’ Muller said. ‘But I think the attempts to do so this spring and summer could still be criminal.’

The DOJ argued in its amended complaint that both Peltola’s campaign and the DSCC misled the court last week, when claiming they lacked the ‘knowledge or information’ to speak to the decoy candidate’s intentions to run for office.

The Justice Department’s filing ticks through the New York Times report before saying it provides the opposite: That they ‘orchestrated the sham campaign’ for purposes of ‘misleading Alaskan voters.’

It is unclear whether this will alter the strength of the case.

Peltola’s campaign and the DSCC, meanwhile, vehemently disputed the allegations in a filing of their own, saying Friday that the accusations were ‘nonsense’ and a thinly veiled attempt to delay certification of the vote.

‘The only one who could possibly know Daniel J Sullivan’s true reasons for filing as a candidate is Daniel J Sullivan,’ they told the court.

The turmoil around the political trickery has led to unprecedented attention on the Last Frontier’s Senate race.

A prominent Minnesota Democrat is breaking with his party over Rep. Ilhan Omar, saying allegations that she married her brother are “almost certainly true” and warning that unresolved questions about her finances will not disappear.

Joe Radinovich, a former Minnesota state representative and influential Democratic operative, made the comments in a series of Thursday posts on X. His statements challenged Omar’s longstanding denials and the party’s efforts to portray the allegations as a right-wing conspiracy.

“Democrats should understand that the allegation is almost certainly true — whatever conclusions they draw from that point could vary — and her denials calling it a right-wing, Islamophobic or racist conspiracy are almost certainly not,” Radinovich wrote.

The remarks come as federal investigators continue examining Omar’s immigration history and finances. Radinovich argued that Democrats should reconsider their automatic defense of the embattled congresswoman.

“And then I’d be very, very careful about how I qualified on allegations around her finances — where her defense looks similar and where no meaningful questions have been answered publicly, and where any objective look at the evidence doesn’t look…great,” he added.

Radinovich’s comments soon triggered a public exchange with Briana Rose Lee, a Minneapolis Democratic activist who previously worked for Omar’s campaign operation.

“Joe. You aren’t stupid. You know this is a baseless and manufactured witch hunt. I’m actually surprised to see this from you,” Lee wrote. “It’s a new low.”

Radinovich, however, stood by his remarks.

“You’re right. I’m not stupid,” he replied, while acknowledging that he has little confidence in President Trump’s Justice Department. He also questioned the timing of the federal raid on Omar’s Washington, D.C., residence.

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“Though it’s pretty notable that a D.C. judge signed off on it,” he added, before saying he was “pretty confident this specific allegation is true.”

In another post, Radinovich reinforced his position, arguing that people who accept Omar’s denials must be disregarding what he described as a substantial body of evidence.

“Vibes is what it would take to believe her at this point,” he wrote. “There’s plenty of evidence and sourcing available if you don’t dismiss it out of hand.”

The break is notable because of Radinovich’s longstanding connections to Minnesota’s Democratic establishment.

Radinovich represented Minnesota in the state House from 2013 to 2015. He later managed Democrat Rick Nolan’s 2016 congressional campaign, ran Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s successful 2017 campaign and served as Frey’s chief of staff.

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He also played a role in two unsuccessful Democratic primary challenges against Omar, working with Don Samuels in 2022 and 2024.

Omar, who represents Minnesota’s heavily Democratic 5th Congressional District, has repeatedly denied allegations that she married her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, in 2009 as part of an alleged immigration fraud scheme. 

The controversy has surrounded the congresswoman for nearly a decade, but has resurfaced amid new federal scrutiny over her immigration history.

Homeland Security Investigation agents raided Omar’s Washington D.C. home on Oct. 12, seizing her passport, phone and computer.

Federal investigators are examining whether Omar or her late father, Nur Mohamed, fraudulently provided information on citizenship paperwork decades ago. The investigation could potentially have consequences for her citizenship status. 

During former President Barack Obama’s administration, feds opened an investigation into the alleged marriage scheme in 2016. The probe was open until 2021, but was closed by the Biden administration.

No criminal charges have been filed against Omar over the allegations, and her office continues to dismiss the claims as “politically motivated smears.â€

Omar’s campaign responded to Radinovich’s claims to Fox News Digital on Friday.

“Joe is a deeply troubled individual whose demons have sadly manifested as an irrational obsession with Congresswoman Omar after managing two losing campaigns against her,†the campaign said to the outlet.

“His claims are false, biased, and without any evidence. While he was once seen as a rising star within the party, Joe is now widely recognized as a shill for Republican and Corporate money.â€

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