A New York judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit that English actress Sophie Turner filed last year against her husband, Joe Jonas, in which she asked that her two young children be returned to England from the United States.
The lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York was dismissed with the consent of both parties, according to a court filing.
Turner, star of the television show “Game of Thrones,” sued Jonas, an American musician who plays in a boy band with his brothers, in September, weeks after the couple publicly said they planned to divorce.
That summer, the children had traveled to the United States with Jonas because he was on tour there and Turner had a busy filming schedule in Britain, according to the lawsuit. The couple agreed that Turner would pick up the children in September and return with them to England, he said.
Instead, according to the lawsuit, Jonas filed for divorce in September and then refused to give Turner the children's passports, preventing them from returning to England, their “habitual residence.”
A representative for Jonas said at the time that giving Turner the children's passports would have violated a court order in Florida, where the couple's divorce proceedings had begun, that restricted both parents from relocating the children.
In Wednesday's court filing, known as a consent order, Judge Katherine Polk Failla noted that Turner and Jonas had signed a memorandum of understanding and a “parenting plan” related to their children in October. They also filed a consent order with a court in Britain that was approved on Jan. 11, she wrote.
Lawyers and publicists for Turner and Jonas did not immediately respond to requests for comment Wednesday evening.
The couple's children, who were born in the United States in 2020 and 2022, have American and British citizenship. They have been identified in court documents only by their initials.
Turner and Jonas began dating in 2016, when he was touring Britain, and they married in Las Vegas three years later.
After living a “very itinerant lifestyle” for a few years, according to Turner's lawsuit, they moved to England in April 2023 and had planned to buy a home there later that same year.
But in early September, after a succession of negative news stories about Turner, they said in a joint statement on Instagram that they had “mutually decided to end our marriage amicably.”
Samuel Hughes contributed to the research.
