The 20 most controversial and famous love affairs in Hollywood
Jealousy, infidelities, addictions, breakups, divorces and even reconciliations. Some of them even marked an era.
They were great loves of his time ... that became great heartbreaks. Sometimes in real nightmares. Relationships that were born, grew and degraded before the eyes of the entire planet, and that not only marked the lives of their protagonists, but also those of entire generations.
Some of them made us dream or, for some reason, we identified with one of the members of the couple. They embodied ideals of which they were later victims, and they reminded us that the rich and famous also cry, and that even the most handsome in the universe can be fooled with other people.
Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt
The relationship of relationships. The breaking of breaks. We live it practically as if it had been ours. Between 2000 and 2005 they made us dream of fairy tales. But his relationship with Angelina Jolie was the end. Years later, Jennifer Aniston had to send a letter to the media to stop that kind of caricature of an abandoned woman that she has persecuted since then.
Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown
The embodiment of a toxic relationship par excellence. They met in 1989 and married in July 1992, at a wedding that was even attended by Donald Trump. From there, everything went downhill: drugs, an unwanted abortion, driving under the influence of alcohol, jail, mistreatment, an unfortunate reality, more drugs ... They divorced in 2007. Whitney Houston died in February 2012, after drowning due to an overdose. In 2015, Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only daughter of the couple, died after spending six months in a coma after being found unconscious and submerged in the water of her bathtub, in a situation similar to that of her mother.
Madonna and Sean Penn
The actor could not contain his violence even on his wedding day, in 1985, when he ended up shooting with a pistol at the paparazzi in helicopters who were trying to photograph such an important event and to whom he dedicated a message ('Fuck off') in the sand from the Malibu beach where they got married. He was anti-establishment and tough guy, but he was nothing more than a violent man who, according to rumors and the charges that Madonna herself brought against him, tied her to a chair and beat her for eight hours in 1987. They divorced in 1987. 1989.
Bruce Jenner and Kris Jenner
After spending 66 years of her life as a closet trans woman, Caitlyn Jenner (then Bruce Jenner, who won a gold medal in decathlon at the 1976 Montreal Olympics) decided to take the plunge in April 2015 and count publicly, on Diane Sawyer's '20 / 20 'show, who is indeed a woman and who had started her transition process. They had divorced in 2014 "due to irreconcilable differences." The interview that Caitlyn gave to Vanity Fair shortly after, in which she revealed her new name, was the origin of the separation between the Kardashians and the Jenners, whom the planet has seen grow (and get rich) thanks to the reality Keeping up with the Kardashians (19 seasons so far). That interview was the beginning of a war that is still being fought live today.
Rihanna and Chris Brown
Their romance began in 2004, but the night of the 2009 Grammys marked a before and after. Chris Brown beat up Rihanna in the middle of a heated argument inside a car. The images of the consequences on the singer's face after that brutal attack went around the world. Brown was sentenced to five years' probation for assault and battery, in addition to a restraining order. In 2013, Rihanna asked for those measures to be modified, so that they could see each other again. Last year, she said on the Oprah Winfrey podcast: “We have regained confidence. We love each other and most likely we always will ”.
Britney Spears and Kevin Federline
The singer and dancer married in October 2004, after he left his previous girlfriend while she was pregnant. In September 2005, Spears gave birth to Sean Preston, the first of the couple's two children. Jaden James, the second, arrived in September 2006. In November, she asked for a divorce from her and he responded with a request for custody of the children. By then, she had already begun her particular descent into hell, with episodes as memorable as that self-scratching to zero. He has had custody of her children since 2007. Today, accustomed to seeing her dancing in her house through her stories, the #FreeBritney movement is gaining strength.
Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller
Everything about them was excessive from the beginning, starting with an engagement ring, given away in July 2007, valued at half a million dollars. They were married in May 2008, but the problems did not take long to appear. Despite everything, they had twins in March 2009. Sheen was arrested in December of that same year in Aspen for assaulting her during an argument, in which he ended up pinning her on a bed and placing a knife to her throat. He entered rehab in 2010, after a spree of more than 36 hours. Two weeks later they announced their divorce, which cost more than two million euros and became effective in 2011. The Los Angeles Superior Court of Justice issued a restraining order according to which he could not get closer than 100 meters from her. Mueller has entered drug rehab multiple times since then.
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson
What began as a working relationship in the Twilight saga ended with a love story. They were first seen together at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards but of course, that was justified by work. They were later caught at a Kings of Leon concert, and after a year he confirmed the relationship. Nothing better for the fandom, that she was nourished by this story until in 2012 she was unfaithful to the director Rupert Sanders (whose wife, the model Liberty Ross, asked for a divorce right after her).
Sandra Bullock and Jesse James
They met in December 2003, and began their relationship shortly after. They managed to keep their romance a secret, until they were married in July 2005. But fate had played a trick on Bullock. Just days after she won the Oscar for best actress in 2010 for her role in The Blind Side and her first child (Louis) came into her life, a model and tattoo artist named Michelle Bombshell McGee said she was wearing almost a year having a relationship with Jesse James. She even posted Facebook conversations as proof. James said, "infidelity is just part of life."
Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher
They were in the eye of the hurricane from the beginning because of the age difference, but mainly because, this time, she was the oldest. They met in 2002 and got married a year later. Their marriage lasted until November 2011. "As a woman, as a mother and as a wife there are certain values and vows that are sacred to me, and in that spirit I have decided to move on with my life," she said in a statement. In September 2019, Demi Moore published her memoir, Inside Out. She pointed to the sexual threesomes that, according to her, Kutcher forced her to do, as one of the causes of the breakup. She also said that her stormy relationship with him had caused her to relapse into her addictions. Kutcher replied with a tweet: “I was about to hit the button [to send] a really sarcastic tweet. Then I saw my son, my daughter, my wife, and I erased it ”.
Jude Law and Sienna Miller
Handsome, young, successful ... they had every reason to be the couple of the moment. And they were. They met while filming the Alfie remake in 2003 and got engaged in December 2004. The cameras adored (and haunted) them. Only six months later, he was caught with Daisy Wright, the nanny of his children, the fruit of his previous relationship with Sadie Frost. Then began a real media harassment; The News of the World newspaper acknowledged in 2011 that he at that time had been tapping her phone. It later emerged that she had had an affair with Daniel Craig while she was with Law. In an interview with the digital newspaper The Daily Beast in December 2020, Miller said that the break, coupled with his work in the theater (with the play As you like it) and the harassment of the press, was one of the most hard of his life. They reconciled in 2010 and moved in together, but broke up again in early 2011.
Arnold Schwarzenneger and Maria Shriver
His was a soap opera. They were married in 1986. In 1991 she began working for them as a maid in the Mildred Baena household, in her luxurious mansion in Pacific Palisades (California). Joseph Baena was born in 1997, son of Mildred and, in theory, of Rogelio de Jesús, her husband. Only a week later, Christopher, son of Arnold and Maria, came into the world. Then the rumors began, due to the increasingly evident physical resemblance between the famous actor and Mildred's son. In 2011 it was so evident that, when asked by Maria Shriver, he confessed that he was hers. In May the divorce was announced. Schwarzenneger had both women pregnant at the same time while filming Batman and Robin.
Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley
One of the most remembered episodes of the 90s, burned into popular memory. They met in 1988, on the set of Rowing with the wind, a film that passed without pain or glory. But it was not until 1994 that they became a real media perja, specifically since the premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral, in which she wore a Versace dress (in the photo) that passed to posterity. In June 1995 he was caught by the police in Los Angeles using the services of a prostitute, Divine Brown. Images of his arrest, such as Hurley's Versace, also passed into posterity. She forgave him that, but they ended up breaking up in 2000. Their relationship is currently good; so much so that Grant is the godfather of Damian Hurley, son of the model and actress with businessman Steve Bing.
Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston
They met in 1973. They were Hollywood's hottest couple, although he was the one who got most of the attention and she was, quite simply, the wife of. "There was no role, except to go arm in arm with her," he told The Guardian in 2014. For years, he had no qualms about making excesses of her or hanging out with other women. Nicholson's infidelity became commonplace. In 1989, she left him for Ryan O'Neal, who physically abused her. A year and a half later, Huston returned to Nicholson. "He was as generous as he was inconsiderate," she said in Watch me, the second part of her memoir. They were together 17 years, intermittently and on a path full of infidelities.
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
The two were married when they met in 1962 during the filming of Cleopatra, one of the most disastrous in movie history. In fact, they had already seen each other before, at a party at Stewart Granger's house, according to Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger in Love and Fury (Edit. Lumen, 2010), based on the love letters between the couple. They were married twice: the first in 1964 in Montreal (she, in a yellow organza dress that defied luck and a wreath of orange blossom), and the second in 1975 in Botswana. They were definitively divorced in 1976, after two marriages full of fights, insults and drunkenness. But they continued to love each other for the rest of their lives. "Richard and I had time together, but not enough time," she said.
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
Yes, this is another couple that met on a set. Where else can two actors meet? It was in the one of The woman of the year in 1941, where sparks jumped between both from the first moment. A flame that lasted 26 years. He (a convinced Catholic ... at least for some things) never divorced his wife, Louise Ten Broeck, but it was Hepburn who helped him with his addiction to alcohol (for which he had to retire for a time at the zenith of his professional career) and who endured being the mistress of a married man who had other mistresses. During her drunkenness, he physically and verbally assaulted her. They never got to live together. Despite this, the actress took care of him until the last moment of him, in 1967.
Woody Allen and Soon-Yi
They were married on Christmas Eve 1997 in Venice. He was 61 and she was 26. The relationship was marked by scandal from the beginning, as she was the adopted daughter of his girlfriend. So no, she was not his daughter, no matter how often simplified it was. Around the same time, Allen was embroiled in (another) scandal: Mia Farrow accused him of sexually abusing her daughter Dylan when she was seven. Soon-Yi was adopted by Mia Farrow (with whom she always got along fatally) and André Previn, who divorced in 1979. Then came the relationship between Allen and Farrow, during which the filmmaker and the actress's adopted daughter met . According to Soon-Yi, they first kissed in 1991. They have two adopted daughters: Bechet Dumaine and Manzie Tio.
Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe
The actress divorced Dennis Quaid in 2001, after a decade being one of the most media couples in Hollywood. Shortly after she began a relationship with Russell Crowe, then at the top of his career thanks to Gladiator. The press beat her so badly about the rumor that she had to deny that Crowe was the reason for her breakup with Quaid. However, they only lasted a few months. Apparently Crowe wanted to go faster and she, after a long relationship like the one she had with Dennis Quaid, was not ready for such a commitment.
Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson
They met while filming the movie You, Me and Dupree in 2006. They were only together for six months, apparently due to his drug addictions. When shortly after she was caught in an affectionate attitude with actor Dax Shepard, Wilson tried to commit suicide by slitting his wrists. He was found in the bathroom, covered in blood and overdosed on sleeping pills. They were able to save his life, but both he and his family refused to comment.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
Here is Brad again, starring in another of the great and controversial couples of the 21st century. 12 years together and six children in common (three biological and three adopted). They met in 2004 while filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith. They were married before their children in August 2014 at Chateau Miraval, their residence in Provence. She said that, at the end of their relationship, she felt small and insignificant. "She felt a deep and true sadness, she was hurt," Jolie told Le Figaro. The actress asked for a divorce in September 2016, claiming it was for the welfare of her six children. She later spoke of Pitt's problems with alcohol. Today they are still entangled in the process, one of the longest and most expensive in Hollywood, due to the custody of the children (except Maddox, who is of legal age and has decided to live with his mother).
