Bruce Springsteen has been named in a New Jersey couple’s divorce filing as “the other man.” Businessman Arthur Kelly, a resident of Monmouth Country, New Jersey, claims that his wife Anna committed adultery with Bruce Springsteen.

One of Star Magazine’s sources claims that Bruce and Anna are “just friends” but “there have been rumors… for more than a year that they had gotten way too close after meeting at a local gym.” Bruce is 59 years old, and is the father of three children with his second wife, Patti Scialfa. Back in the day (1988), Patti was rumored to be “the other woman” in Bruce’s first marriage to Julianne Phillips. So is there anything there besides rumor and innuendo?

A heartbroken husband has claimed in sensational court papers that rock ‘n’ roll legend Bruce Springsteen has been making beautiful music on the sly with his wife!

In divorce filed on March 27 in Monmouth County, N.J. Superior Court and obtained by Star, businessman Arthur Kelly alleges that Ann, his wife of 17 years, “committed adultery with one Bruce Springsteen, who resides in Rumson, N.J., and Colts Neck, N.J., at various times and places too numerous to mention.”

Bruce, 59, has been married to his second wife, backup singer Patti Scialfa, 53 — with whom he has three children — also for 17 years.

A source tells Star, “Ann says she and Bruce are just friends, but there have been rumors going around the area for more than a year that they had gotten way too close after meeting at a local gym.”

Neither Ann nor Bruce responded to multiple requests for comment. When contacted, Arthur — who has moved out of the family home in West Long Branch into a nearby condo — told Star: “I don’t want to comment at this time, but I do appreciate your asking me.” His attorney, Edward Fradkin, tells Star, “The papers speak for themselves.”

This isn’t the first time Bruce has been caught up in a cheating scandal. Published reports early in the summer of 1988 alleged that he was romancing his backup singer-turned-wife, Patti, behind the back of his first wife, actress Julianne Phillips.

In 2006, Bruce denied a published report that he’d had an affair with a beautiful 9/11 widow from New Jersey whom he’d met in 2001.

[From Star Magazine]

“The papers speak for themselves.” That’s a tough stance. If it’s untrue, my guess is Bruce will likely issue a statement sometime soon. He probably just didn’t want to give his comment to Star. From what I’ve read about Bruce in the past, he doesn’t really have a zipper problem. He’s not just some casual womanizer, I tend to think he’s a romantic. Of course, even romantics cheat. They just call it “falling in love with someone else.”

Here’s Bruce performing at a Barack Obama campaign rally in October. Images thanks to WENN .