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Sean Penn has jetted to Cuba to interview Fidel Castro for a newspaper article, according to local reports.

The Oscar winner – who has come under fire for his support of the anti-U.S. revolutionary and his president brother Raul – is claimed to have flown to the communist country to discuss how President Barack Obama’s administration has affected Cuba.

The interview with the former leader will reportedly be used for an article Penn is writing for Vanity Fair magazine.

The Mystic River actor has been heavily criticized for his connections to Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, with a U.S. journalist accusing him of discrediting his good work in the gay community by lending his support to the controversial politicians.

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The ink’s barely dry on the divorce filing between Sean Penn and soon-to-be ex Robin Wright Penn, but the actor didn’t waste time getting back on his feet with new girlfriend Jessica White in New York City.

On Friday night, Penn, 49, and White, 25, had dinner at Hotel Griffou (both ordered the chicken and drank vodka) before heading to the Mercer Hotel.

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“They were holding hands. They seemed really into each other,” a source says. “She was laying on him. She was laying on his shoulder. They were lounging around. He seemed really into her.”

The next night, Penn and his Sports Illustrated swimsuit model companion, who met at a birthday party at Kid Rock’s house last month, arrived hand-in-hand at Abe & Arthur’s in the Meatpacking District for model Noemie Lenoir’s birthday party.

“They are together all the time,” a source says. “They are pretty serious together. She wants to get serious with him and it seems like he is really into her too.”

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Now that Sean Penn’s wife, Robin Wright, has decided to divorce him once and for all, the actor has turned to a familiar face for comfort — ex-wife Madonna!

A friend says Madonna, 51, and Sean, 49, have stayed in touch since having cocktails last November at New York’s Greenwich Hotel and have helped each other through their respective splits (she divorced Guy Ritchie in 2008).

And though she is casually dating Jesus Luz, “Madonna still considers Sean her soulmate,” her friend reveals. “It’s highly possible that she and Sean will somehow get back together now that they’ll both be divorced.”

The volatile pair were married from 1985-1989.

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Robin Wright Penn has filed for divorce from her husband Sean Penn, People has learned.

Papers were filed in Marin County, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug. 12.

Wright Penn’s filing states that “both parties have already agreed to [shared] custody” over their minor son, Hopper Jack, 16, and that “the estranged couple have already agreed to division of all property.”

Together since 1989 and married in 1996, the couple endured a roller-coaster relationship, filing papers of legal separation not once, but twice – only to patch things up again as recently as May.

In an interview released Monday, the actress told More magazine that she had no plans to reconcile with her husband. “I hit that crossroad a while ago,” she said. “I know what I don’t want.”


Regarding the much-discussed marriage of the two actors, friends tell More magazine for its September issue that the couple had a “peculiar chemistry.” Wright herself said, “I, we, have two amazing children we raised together.”

This fall, daughter Dylan Frances, 18, is headed off to college, with son Hopper Jack preparing to follow suit.

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Are Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn reconciling again?

The Oscar-winning actor filed a request Tuesday to dismiss his legal separation case, Marin County, Calif., court records show.

“This appears to imply that they’re reconciling again,” says L.A. divorce lawyer Lynn Soodik, who is not involved with the case. “It’s unlikely Sean Penn would request a dismissal for any other reason.”

This is the second time the actor has rescinded divorce papers. Penn, 48, and Wright Penn, 43, started divorce proceedings in December 2007 after 11 years of marriage.

But they put the brakes on their divorce action four months later, in April 2008, when a court clerk dismissed the divorce petition at their request.

A lawyer for Sean Penn didn’t immediately return a call for comment. Wright Penn has been at the Cannes Film Festival, where she’s a member of the jury, since last week. She attended the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS benefit on May 21.

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