[custom_adv] The 85-year-old former CNN host filed for divorce from Shawn King, 59, in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday, according to [custom_adv] The pair married on September 5, 1997, and their date of separation is listed as June 6, 2019, in the filing. [custom_adv] This union marks King's eighth marriage to seven women. He was wed to former wife Alene Akins twice. [custom_adv] He filed for divorce from the former singer and TV presenter back in 2010, but withdrew his petition after the pair reconciled. [custom_adv] It's the second time Larry King has sought to end the marriage. [custom_adv] The request for divorce cites irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split. [custom_adv] There are baby alpaca throws, towels named after the Kings' favorite destinations (London, Beverly Hills, Rome), and scented candles bearing the names of exotic places like Athens, Tahiti and Saint-Tropez. [custom_adv] Shawn, who still has her school home-economics certificate, says she loves nothing more than the creature comforts, and her husband concurs. "It's like you were made for this," he says. [custom_adv] "I closed my eyes and thought, this reminds of a scent I smelled in France or Italy, or Bangkok," Shawn says. (Thailand was her first big trip abroad, as a teenage backup singer for the Osmonds—"an eye-opening experience for a girl raised in the music business in Studio City, California," she adds.) [custom_adv] Larry also reveals that when he was a boy, he told his best friend that he wanted to be "in sheets and pillowcases."