Jaime King’s Secret Second Marriage Ends In Sudden Divorce Filing

The Moment

Jaime King is headed back to divorce court. Again.

According to a January 22, 2026 report from TMZ, the Hart of Dixie actress’s second husband, banker Austin Sosa, filed for divorce on Thursday, using online court systems in Los Angeles. The filing reportedly comes just weeks after gossip outlets linked Jaime to hotel owner Vikram Chatwal, following their very public hangouts around Los Angeles.

Jaime King’s Husband Austin Sosa Files For Divorce https://t.co/12T0G5aj7F pic.twitter.com/FC4ToTCaVh

— TMZ (@TMZ) January 23, 2026

Toss in one more twist: most people didn’t even know Jaime and Austin were married. The pair reportedly had a secret wedding sometime before July 2025, when reports surfaced that they were “just” engaged. Now, without fans ever getting the fairy-tale wedding rollout on Instagram, we’re already at the paperwork stage.

There are no children from this marriage, so there won’t be a custody battle between Jaime and Austin. But for Jaime, this marks divorce number two, after she finalized a long, messy split from director Kyle Newman in September 2023, a process that was heavily covered by outlets like People at the time.

So yes, if it feels like Jaime barely got out of one divorce before walking into another, that’s because… she basically did.

The Take

I’ll say it: this whole story feels less like a romance arc and more like a soft launch that crashed on takeoff.

Jaime and Austin reportedly married in secret, kept it quiet long enough that the public thought they were only engaged last summer, and now the first major headline we get about the relationship is: he filed for divorce. That’s not a love story; that’s a limited series.

The timing is what’s raising eyebrows. TMZ says the divorce filing hit the system weeks after reports linked Jaime to Vikram Chatwal, a New York hotel heir and nightlife staple who’s been orbiting the celebrity scene for years. Jaime has reportedly denied that they’re romantically involved and insisted their time together is business-related. Still, the optics of “mysterious new man” followed quickly by “secret husband files for divorce” are brutal, no matter what the real story is.

But here’s where I land: this isn’t a cheating scandal we can actually prove; it’s a pattern story.

In just a few years, Jaime has gone from a very public, very contentious split with Kyle Newman – with custody drama and financial disputes laid out in court documents and entertainment coverage – to a hidden whirlwind marriage that’s now ending just as quietly as it began. It’s like she swung the pendulum from too public to nobody knows anything, and still ended up with lawyers on speed dial.

It’s a familiar pattern in Hollywood: after one ugly, drawn-out breakup, the next relationship happens fast, on the down-low, and with a lot of “we’re keeping this private” energy. Sometimes that’s healthy. Sometimes it’s just putting a pretty filter on chaos. From the outside, this one feels more like the latter.

Think of it like remodeling a house after a fire. You can repaint, swap the furniture, and change the locks – but if you don’t fix the wiring underneath, you’re going to smell smoke again. Jaime may be changing husbands, but the pace and the secrecy feel very, very familiar.

The other undercurrent here is age and image. Jaime is 40s-famous – she’s in that category with fans who remember her in Pearl Harbor, Sin City, and network TV, not TikTok dances. Her audience has watched her grow up, have kids, and slog through one public marital meltdown already. A secret second marriage that fizzles this fast hits differently for that crowd. It’s less “celebrity gossip” and more “friend from college who’s suddenly getting divorced again.”

Is it scandalous? A little. Is it sad? Honestly, yes. Because at some point, it stops feeling like juicy content and starts looking like someone who can’t quite get a stable chapter off the ground.

Receipts

Let’s separate what’s actually confirmed from what’s just floating around as rumor.

Confirmed:

• TMZ reported on January 22, 2026, that Austin Sosa filed for divorce from Jaime King, citing online court records.
• The same report notes that Jaime and Austin did not have children together, so there are no custody or child support issues in this case.
• It has been widely reported – and reflected in court documents covered by outlets like People in fall 2023 – that Jaime finalized a contentious divorce from her first husband, director Kyle Newman, in September 2023. They share two children.
• TMZ’s report states that the divorce documents for Jaime and Austin are not yet publicly available, so official dates of marriage and separation are still unknown.

Unverified / Reported, Not Proven:

• The exact date of Jaime and Austin’s secret wedding has not been made public. Coverage only notes that reports in July 2025 framed them as engaged, suggesting the marriage was kept quiet.
• Reports that Jaime was “linked” to hotel owner Vikram Chatwal are based on sightings and speculation. Jaime reportedly denied they were romantically involved and said their time together in Los Angeles was for business purposes.
• Any suggestion that the divorce was directly caused by Vikram or by infidelity is speculation at this point. No court filing spelling out a reason has been made public.

Backstory (For Casual Readers)

If you lost track of Jaime King somewhere between the DVD era and streaming, here’s the quick catch-up. Jaime is a model-turned-actress who broke out in the late ’90s and early 2000s, then really locked in a fan base as the sweet-but-messy doctor on the CW’s Hart of Dixie. She married director Kyle Newman in 2007; they had two sons and, for a long time, projected “creative Hollywood family” vibes. Then came a long, rough divorce that kicked off in 2020, complete with dueling claims and drawn-out legal wrangling, finally wrapped in 2023. After that, Jaime seemed to move on with banker Austin Sosa – quietly – and now that chapter is already ending.

What’s Next

For now, the big question is what those divorce documents will actually say once they’re fully available.

We’re waiting on:

• Official paperwork details: Date of marriage, date of separation, and whether either side is asking for spousal support or has a prenup. Those details will tell us if this was a lightning-fast union or a longer, very private run.
• Public statements: So far, there’s no on-the-record statement from Jaime or Austin. Given how public her first divorce became, she may try to keep this one as low-key as possible – but a short “please respect our privacy” post wouldn’t be surprising.
• Co-parenting optics: Jaime still shares two kids with Kyle Newman. Any new drama in her personal life tends to ripple into how the public reads that co-parenting relationship, even if the legal part is settled.
• The Vikram questions: If Jaime continues to be seen with Vikram Chatwal – even just for “business” – people are going to connect dots, whether or not those dots are fair. How they choose to handle that publicly will shape the narrative.

The most likely outcome? This divorce gets processed, we learn a few key dates from the filings, and then the story quietly shifts into the background while Jaime works, parents, and – maybe – recalibrates how fast and how privately she jumps into the next relationship.

Because at some point, especially in your 40s, the question stops being “Who’s she dating now?” and becomes “Is this finally the one that feels calm?”

What about you: when you see a star go through multiple divorces in a short period, do you lean toward “normal modern life” or “giant red flag,” or is it just none of our business at all?