Expert: Mike Caldwell - 6/30/2009

Question
Hello,

I was viewing Jimmy's imdb biography page when I was surprised by a piece of information - according to imdb, Jimmy has been "separated" from Jimena Gomez-Paratcha since July of 2008. After poking around some more, I found similar information on the website familyzepp.com, which cited this site as its source on their divorced status:
http://www.suffolkfreepress.co.uk/news/Long-Melford-hosts-Led-Zeppelin.4387503.j...
Any information on whether or not Jimmy is still married to Jimena? I'm very curious, they seemed to be such a charming couple. Thanks for your time.

Lucy

Answer
It's a tough call.  Divorces, formally speaking, are usually rather difficult to hide, because public records are generally very accessible.  My newsfeeds still show reasons to believe that they are not formally divorced, but perhaps just informally separated.  Here's one from a Brazilian news source dated April 23, 2009, with the most recent mention of Jimena.  It's a passing reference, talking about an auction, but when translated from Portuguese, still mentions her as his wife:

"Andrew Webb, executive director of the organization, told the BBC that Brazil hopes that the auction revenue at least 30 thousand pounds (about $ 96 thousand), which will be allocated to 12 projects in São Paulo, Rio, Salvador and Recife.
The ABC Trust was founded by Brazilian Jimena Page, wife of Jimmy Page, guitarist of Led Zeppelin."

Generally, with the agressive British press, any information about a formal divorce would have been discovered and released.  Nothing of the sort has come to light, so if anything, they may be separated and staying legally "married" for the sake of the Trust and the charity work done by Jimena.  I agree she's a great girl!  But for now, I would not consider them officially divorced until I see "real" evidence myself.  Again, they may just be staying together legally for publicity and charity reasons.