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Murray (with Jewel last year) calls their split "amicable."
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(PEOPLE) -- Celebrity love gets a complete checkup. Here's how some notable couples are doing:
Riding into the sunset
Jewel and her sweetheart of the rodeo — bull-riding champ Ty Murray — see their romance bite the dust.
When her boyfriend, champion bull rider Ty Murray, quit the rodeo circuit last October, pop star Jewel serenaded him at a Las Vegas retirement party with "Till We Run Out of Road," a song the pair cowrote. "Ty is a stand-up guy who says what he means and does what he says," she told guests at the Caesars Palace bash. "He's earned the title of hero, especially to me."
Now it appears their road has come to an end. "Jewel and I broke up last week," confirms Murray, 33. "We've been together five years, and both of us decided to break up for the best." After meeting the Arizona-born "King of the Cowboys" -- Murray has lassoed more than $3 million in competitions -- at a 1998 rodeo, Alaska-reared Jewel, 28, invited him to one of her concerts, where they hit it off. She often spent time at Murray's Texas ranch, where she suffered a broken collarbone and rib last year after being thrown from a wild colt.
No hard feelings, apparently. "We're still good friends, great friends actually," says Murray. "We talk on the phone every day."
Jay-Z ya later?
Hip-hop's most intriguing duet -- Jay-Z and Beyoncé Knowles -- hit a flat note.
Is Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z's duet out of tune? The diva, 21, and the rapper, 33, became an on-and-off item last year after teaming on his single " '03 Bonnie & Clyde." Turning up together from the Bahamas to NBA courtsides, they denied engagement rumors. But lately he has been spotted making the scene with other women. As for reports of a split, though, Jay-Z isn't one for labels. Says a source close to him: "No breakup has ever occurred."
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