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Sophie Turner sues Joe Jonas to take kids back to UK as he denies child abduction allegations

Joe Jonas, left, and Sophie Turner attend the Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 12, 2023, in Beverly Hills, California.

Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas' divorce battle just got more contentious: The "Game of Thrones" star is suing the musician for unlawfully keeping their two children in the U.S. and is requesting their immediate return to England.

Turner, 27, filed the lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan to "secure the immediate return of children wrongfully removed or wrongfully retained" by Jonas, according to court documents obtained by the L.A. Times.

The England-born actor also accused the Jonas Brothers musician of withholding their daughters' passports and refusing to send the girls home to England with her. Her attorneys cited the Hague Convention, the international child-abduction law, to make their case and said she plans to initiate a similar child-arrangement case in a U.K. court where Jonas' decision is "a breach of [Turner's]

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