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Despite dating a woman less than half his age, Gen. Wesley Clark is still not divorced from his wife of 46 years

Despite going on parade with a beautiful woman half his age, 30-year-old entrepreneur Shauna Mei, 68-year-old Gen. Wesley Clark isn’t yet divorced from his wife of 46 years.

The retired US Army general and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander filed for divorce from his wife Gertrude Kingston Clark — whom he married in 1966 — last year. But the divorce trial date set for May 1 this year was delayed, sources exclusively tell Page Six, and as of press time, no final divorce was announced, so their negotiations are likely still ongoing.

We’re told Clark met Mei, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker and founder of upscale online retailer AHAlife.com, at a Deepak Chopra conference in 2012. Gen. Clark was listed as an attendee of the Chopra Foundation Symposium in Carlsbad in March that year. Mei is listed as a speaker for the Chopra Foundation on its Web site.

We are told his wife was “totally blindsided and devastated by the divorce [which was filed in September 2012],” said a source who added, “Gertrude stood by him through all those wars, all those years, as they moved home 32 times because of his career.”

We are told following their separation, grandfather of two Clark has moved out of the marital home to a condo in Little Rock, Ark., but spends a lot of time at Mei’s Noho apartment.

A divorce trial date had been set for May 1 this year, and just a week later Gen. Clark was spotted with Mei — who left China after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and graduated from MIT — at the 2013 Apex for Youth Inspiration Awards Gala at Capitale on May 8.

The source added, “The Clarks’ divorce has not yet been finalized, they are still working out a number of issues. It is not easy to end a 46-year marriage. It is very upsetting for Gertrude to see him out at black-tie events with Shauna. The whole situation is very painful.”

Philip E. Kaplan, attorney for Wesley Clark, did not respond to a request for comment while Gertrude Kingston Clark’s attorney Kenneth Shemin was not available.