Here is the reality check every fan needs before clicking on that clickbait. Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann are still very much together. In fact, they just celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary in August 2024. By Hollywood standards, that is practically a century.

Below is a solid, myth-busting blog post designed to clear up this confusion for your readers. If you’ve typed “Mariska divorced” into your search bar lately, you might have been greeted by a swarm of shady websites claiming the unthinkable: that Law & Order: SVU icon Mariska Hargitay has split from her husband, Peter Hermann.

Mariska plays Captain Olivia Benson . Olivia Benson has had a notoriously rough romantic history (we all remember the Tucker breakup and the Stabler tension). If a fan blog wrote "Olivia gets divorced," a lazy AI scraper might repurpose that headline as "Mariska gets divorced."

If it sounds like shocking gossip, it’s probably bad data. Stick to the facts, and stream SVU with a clear conscience. Want to fact-check a celebrity rumor before you share it? Check the date on the article—if it’s from a site you’ve never heard of and has typos in the headline, swipe left.

If you are seeing search results suggesting a divorce, you are likely encountering (possibly mixing her up with another celebrity or a character she plays).