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Al and Tipper Gore, Awash in Marital Troubles, Won't Be at Chelsea Clinton's Wedding

By DNAinfo Staff on July 2, 2010 2:38pm

Al and Tipper Gore, seen outside the White House in 2007, will not be attending the wedding of former first daughter and Columbia School of Public Health student, Chelsea Clinton.
Al and Tipper Gore, seen outside the White House in 2007, will not be attending the wedding of former first daughter and Columbia School of Public Health student, Chelsea Clinton.
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By Olivia Scheck

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN — Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper, who recently separated, will not attend the wedding of Manhattan First Daughter Chelsea Clinton's later this month, a spokeswoman told the Daily News on Friday.

"The Gores are not attending the wedding," the Gore rep, Kalee Kreide, announced, according to the News' gossip blog. "They both wish Chelsea well, believe she is a wonderful young woman, and they share in the family's excitement."

The Gores' decision to skip the wedding, to be held July 31 in upstate Rhinebeck, NY, came amid weeks of gossip-driven reports about Gore and his family.

First came news of the couple's separation after 40 years of marriage, then the inconvenient truth that one of their four children, Manhattan-based Karenna Gore Schiff, had separated from her husband.

Then media gossip began to swirl about an alleged affair that linked the former VP with the ex-wife of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" creator and star, Larry David. And Portland police reopened the case of an Oregon masseuse who asserted that she had been sexually assaulted by Gore.

The former high-school sweethearts' sudden fall from perceived marital bliss and the accompanying flurry of bad press has led some to question whether they were even invited to the Clinton wedding, the News said.

Asked whether the Gores got an invite to the 400-person event, spokeswoman Kreide declined to comment, according to the News.

Gore, long a champion of measures to curb cimate change and other environmental threats, shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with a panel of climate change scientists and won an Oscar for his documentary film, "An Inconvenient Truth."