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HOLLYWOOD is stunned and perplexed by Sean Penn’s recent moves. After reconciling with his long-suffering wife Robin Wright Penn (for the second time in 18 months), Penn canceled two movie projects and announced he’s putting his career on hold to spend more time with his family. The Oscar winner pulled out of “Cartel,” about a man who goes to Mexico to protect his son after a drug gang murders his mother. He also nixed playing Larry in “The Three Stooges” with Jim Carrey as Curly and Be nicio Del Toro as Moe. As Cindy Adams reported yesterday, some think Natalie Portman is to blame. Though the beauty, 27, denied she and Penn, 48, were ever an item, they were reported hanging out together at a West Hollywood bar two weeks after Penn filed for a legal separation in April. So some speculate Penn went back to his wife after Portman broke his heart.

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Sean Penn doesn’t want to break-up with Robin Wright Penn after all.

Weeks after filing for legal separation from his wife of 13 years, Penn has withdrawn his motion, pulling the papers from California’s Marin County Superior Court.

“It was an arrogant mistake,” Penn told the Daily News.

The dramatic change of heart puts the ball in his wife’s court.

She had 30 days to respond to her husband’s April 24 filing, and she didn’t. A spokeswoman for the actress, who is a juror at the Cannes Film Festival in France, had no comment.

This wouldn’t be the first time they’ve kissed and made up.

Penn, 48, and Wright Penn, 43, launched a divorce action in the same court in December 2007 only to yank the petition four months later.

This time around, Penn asked the court for joint physical and legal custody of their children, daughter Dylan, 18 and son, Hopper, 15. He also asked the judge to deny his wife spousal support.

Friends of the couple believe Penn filed his petition in a fit of pique.

“They love each other like crazy but they fight like crazy,” said a pal.

“They may have gotten into a fight where she said she wanted a divorce and he filed just to beat her to the punch, even though he doesn’t want a divorce.

“That doesn’t mean they’re suddenly happy and in love. It’s anyone’s guess where this is going.”

Penn might also have filed to protect his assets. Had he gone through with it, his attorneys could have argued Wright isn’t entitled to marital income after the date of their separation – which Penn put as April 23.

The two-time Oscar-winner earned $5 million for 2001’s “I Am Sam,” but he could be in for a much bigger payday on “The Three Stooges” with Jim Carrey and Benicio del Toro.

A friend said Penn’s bid to deny support or legal fees for his wife doesn’t mean he’s a “cheap guy.”

“He will always take care of his family. He would never allow anyone else to take care of his kids,” the friend said.

Actress Natalie Portman recently denied rumors that she was “romantically involved” with Penn, calling him “a friend and colleague.”

Penn has been in New York shooting, “Fair Game,” in which he plays former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, husband of CIA agent Valerie Plame.

Meanwhile, Wright Penn arrived solo – looking stunning in white sheath gown – at Wednesday’s Cannes premiere of “Inglourious Basterds.”

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Sean Penn has filed for “legal separation with minor children” from his wife of 13 years, actress Robin Wright Penn.

He filed the papers last Friday, Extra first reported.

Penn, 48, initially filed for divorce in December 2007, but his petition was later dismissed. Three days later, Wright Penn, 43, filed her own paperwork.

But in April 2008, the couple’s divorce petition was dismissed at their request.

They attended February’s Academy Awards, where Penn won his second Best Actor Oscar for his role as gay rights activist Harvey Milk.

He did not thank Wright Penn — with whom he has two children, Dylan, 18, and Hopper Jack, 15 — while accepting his award.

After the show, he told Oprah Winfrey that his gratitude for his wife was “implicit.”

“I wanted to keep things focused on the professional team around this movie,” he explained. “Because with Robin comes my mother and my son and my daughter, and half of them will punish me if I mention them.”

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Sean Penn and his wife Robin Wright Penn are unloading their five-bedroom, Spanish-style estate in Ross, Calif., in Marin County. Price tag: $15 million.

Running on 2.2 acres, the 10,000-square-foot pad — which they bought in 1996 and spent more than two years remodeling — features a gym, home office, au pair suite and three-car garage, according to the Associated Press.

Also on the property: A two-bedroom guest cottage, complete with a two-car garage, pool, tennis court and redwood grove.

The couple — who have two children — wed in 1996.

They filed for divorce in December but had proceedings dismissed in April.

Penn will return to the big screen in December’s Milk as Harvey Milk, the country’s first openly gay elected official who was assassinated in 1978.

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ROBIN Wright Penn now no longer wants to get a divorce from cranky ladies man Sean Penn. “Extra” confirmed that a dismissal was filed and granted in court Tuesday. Robin filed for divorce from her husband of 11 years on Dec. 21. On the eve of the reconciliation, the couple showed up at an Eddie Vedder concert in Berkeley, Calif., where Penn took the stage to wish his wife a happy birthday. Monday, Penn’s ex-girlfriend, Petra Nemcova, whom he’d squired all over LA during the Oscars, celebrated her single status at the Food Bank for NYC gala at Pier 60, where she flirted up a storm. Also at the event was Gwyneth Paltrow (left, at a separate event), who was honored for her involvement with the organization. When accepting her award, Paltrow planted a big kiss on Mario Batalli’s cheek and told the audience that she was “trashed” since she had been there for five hours.

It’s over for Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn — but is the actor, 47, already moving on?

Four days before she filed divorce papers in Marin County, California, on December 21, he was spotted dining on Christmas with a “very young, very attractive” brunette at San Francisco’s Café de la Presse restaurant.

“He seemed nervous and on edge,” fellow diner Rob Seide told Usmagazine.com of the actor. “He didn’t seem very happy.”

Penn originally filed divorce papers in Marin County December 7, his attorney Mindy Ross told Us, but the petition was dismissed December 18.

On December 21, Robin Wright Penn, 41, filed her own request for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Penn’s divorce papers listed November 30 as the date of their separation; she listed the split date as December 1.

The couple, who have been married for over 11 years, have two kids: Dylan Francis, 16, and Hopper Jack, 14.

“It was bound to happen,” added a source of their split. “He always seemed like a bachelor at heart and the kind of guy who just couldn’t be married for long.”

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One of Hollywood’s longer lasting unions, between actor Sean Penn and his wife Robin Wright Penn is over, as the couple confirmed they are divorcing.

The couple, who married in 1996, have two children together, Hopper Jack, 14, and Dylan Frances, 16.

According to People Magazine, the divorce was confirmed by the couple’s spokesperson.

Penn, 47, and Wright, 41, both actors, began dating in the early ’90s and have starred together in several films, including 1998’s Hurlyburly and 1997’s She’s So Lovely, directed by Nick Cassavetes.

Former wild man Penn who had a short lived marriage to Madonna said once: “Marriage ain’t easy, but it’s great most of the time.

“I love Robin. I’ve always loved her.”

The couple have had a notoriously tempestuous relationship, and director Cassevetes when asked about working with the couple said: “The beginning and the end of every day is how Sean and Robin are getting along.

“If they have a bad morning, Sean’s broken up about it.”

Penn’s most recent film, Into the Wild, which he directed, has garned critical acclaim, with four SAG Award nominations and two Golden Globe nominations.

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