23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Tommy Dorfman files for divorce from Elise Williams after nearly two years of marriage
Tommy Dorfman and Elise Williams are going their separate ways.
According to online records obtained by PEOPLE, Dorfman, 33, filed for divorce from Williams in New York City on Friday, May 16, after nearly two years of marriage.
In 2021, the former couple met using the dating app Hinge. In a 2024 Vogue piece, the 13 Reasons Why alum disclosed that the couple became engaged after only two months of dating, a milestone she originally announced in August 2022 during an interview on Rachel Bilson's Broad Ideas podcast.
At the time, she kept Williams' identity a mystery, revealing only that she had fallen in love with "a gay girl" after previously marrying her ex-husband, Peter Zurkuhlen.
Despite their quick engagement, Dorfman stated in her Vogue column that the former couple "waited a full year before moving in together," albeit they adopted a Great Dane puppy after six months of knowing each other.
"That's the thing about falling in love: your responsibility barometer isn't always where it should be. "Love, for us, required that nauseating combination of naiveté, delusion, and fate," she wrote back then.
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In May 2024, the Love, Victor actress disclosed in a now-deleted Instagram post and Vogue that the two secretly eloped at the end of 2023.
"I married my best friend and didn't tell anyone except @hunterabrams, who came and photographed us towards the end of last year," she said in the description of her Instagram post. "We got our own dresses at Dover Street Market in New York, where I used to work before acting, and they were amazing.
She also thanked @liamnhess and @guiducci ♡" on Instagram.
Dorfman subsequently wrote in Vogue that she and Williams were "sitting perched above the shoreline in Malibu," laughing about same-day marriages, when the idea to elope got serious.
After a short Google search, they discovered that California offered same-day wedding services and confidential marriage records, so they married before driving to a concert later that evening.
"I fell in love with someone who doesn't fetishise me," Dorfman said about her fiancée and the pressures of dating as a trans woman.
Dorfman appeared to hint at their breakup in an Instagram post less than five months ago, and now they have split.
The actress captioned a carousel of photographs emphasising some of her "random memories" in 2024, providing some "vague context" to the associated snaps.
"1: heartbreak feels good in a place like this (i wrote this entirely original line)," Dorfman captioned a bare-faced selfie, citing Nicole Kidman's famed AMC commercial.
In another slide, she included a photo of her dog Fiona and stated that her pet was "managing better than I" in their new home, where they lived "just the two of us."
Other photographs included a mirror selfie in which Dorfman displayed her leg. In reference to the picture, she said, "I sent this to a boy and got no response, so that's good."
