Celebrities who don't seem to be married for long
People seem to get married for all kinds of reasons. Presumably, love is at the top of the list, but many also marry for reasons like financial security or simply because of an old company, even if their spouse is not their ideal partner. Then there are those who apparently believe that life is much better being someone's husband or wife rather than a single person, based on how many times they have been married. It happens with celebrities all the time.
For this one, we chose a list of stars who have been married multiple times, some of them with very little time between those marriages. Some celebrities walked down the aisle at a young age and then went on to marry different people throughout their adult lives. Sadly, some never had a marriage that lasted more than a few months, and others even shorter than that. But at the opposite extreme, there are several famous people who have had a lasting marriage after divorcing various people, so they finally got their happy ending. What celebrities can't seem to stay married long?
Halle Berry likes athletes and artists
Halle Berry has been an object of desire for people near and far since she appeared on the scene in the early 1990s. However, there are three men who can not only say they captured her heart, but can also call themselves her ex-husband. . Berry's first husband was former Major League Baseball player David Justice, to whom she was married. from 1993-1996. They met a year before getting married after Berry saw him on MTV's "Rock n 'Jock," as detailed by PopSugar. But things fell apart once the divorce started because Berry filed a restraining order against Justice. As a result, rumors spread that he was abusive. She has always denied the claim, most recently in 2015 while speaking to People. (via the New York Daily News).
Berry's next marriage was to singer Eric Benét, whom she met at a concert in Los Angeles, according to Gente. They exchanged vows in 2001 and divorced in 2005. At some point, Berry found out that Benét was cheating on her, as she told Oprah Winfrey in 2004. She also revealed that he admitted to being unfaithful once the news broke in a tabloid. Actor Olivier Martinez was the third husband of Berry, whom she met in the movie "Dark Tide," according to Entertainment Weekly. They were married in 2013, divorced in 2016, and had a son named Maceo-Robert. In a joint statement to Gente, Berry and Martinez said they decided to divorce with a "heavy heart" and only want the best for their son.
Charlie Sheen married after six weeks.
Charlie Sheen has three beats when it comes to walking down the hall. His first wife was model Donna Peele, whom he married in 1995. They met in New York while filming a commercial and were married after only six weeks of dating. The Deseret News. "My research and travels have shown me that people who court for a decade often have a marriage that lasts only a couple of years," Sheen said. The New York Times on why she chose to marry Peele so quickly. But ironically, the marriage lasted just a year, and they divorced in 1996.
Sheen then married actress Denise Richards in 2002. Per The Sun, they met in the 1991 movie "Loaded Weapon 1" but waited a while to be a couple. They eventually had two daughters, Sam and Lola Rose, but they divorced in 2006 after some of their problems came to light in the press. The "Wall Street" star's third marriage was to Brooke Mueller in 2008, and they had twin sons, Bob and Max, before divorcing in 2011. Like Sheen's problems with Richards, the alleged fights with Mueller came to a head. headlines. Additionally, Sheen was arrested in 2009 in Aspen, Colorado, after Mueller claimed that she pulled a knife from him, as CBS News reported at the time.
Angelina Jolie had a super contentious divorce
Angelina Jolie is a three-time marriage club card member. Her first marriage was in 1996 to British actor Jonny Lee Miller. They met on the set of "Hackers", according to MI! Noticiasy divorced in 1999. Jolie later married actor Billy Bob Thornton in 2000 after meeting him on the set of "Pushing Tin," according to In Fashion. Thornton was still engaged to actress Laura Dern at the time, so it's safe to say that she didn't send them a wedding gift.
Probably one of the most reported stories about Jolie and Thornton is when they started using vials of each other's blood. In 2014, Thornton told students at Loyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television (via E! News) the vials were a way to keep him and Jolie connected, as they were often separated. But blood didn't keep them connected for long because they divorced in 2003. Jolie's third marriage was to Brad Pitt in 2014 after they met on the set of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith '. Their marriage ended in 2016, but not before they welcomed several children (three by adoption). His divorce and the battle for custody of the children was very controversial. In 2021, Jolie accused Pitt of abuse, which he strongly denies. He was also cleared of child abuse by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services in 2016.
Pamela Anderson is far from a person who gives up
Pamela Anderson is apparently a firm believer in the saying "if you don't succeed, try, try again." That's because she's been married five times, and her first marriage to Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, in 1995. They exchanged vows in Cancun, Mexico, just six weeks after meeting, according to Us Weekly, and they divorced in 1998. Later that year, Lee was arrested and charged with spousal abuse after Anderson told police she was assaulted. Lee was eventually arrested and sentenced to 180 days in jail, according to MTV. They also had two children together during their union, Brandon Thomas Lee and Dylan Jagger Lee.
Anderson's next husband was Kid Rock, to whom she was married from 2006-2007. The two cited "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for the split. But according to a New York Post report (via CBS News), the divorce had to do with Rock not liking Anderson being in the Sacha Baron Cohen movie "Borat" as it focuses on Borat Sagdiyev who wants to marry the former "Baywatch" star. Anderson then married Rick Salomon, former Paris Hilton, from 2007-2008, and again from 2014-2015. The former "Home Improvement" actor married Jon Peters after that, a man she had met 30 years earlier, but the marriage lasted only 12 days. But later in a statement, shared by USA Today Anderson said the marriage was not legal. Her fifth marriage was to her bodyguard Dan Hayhurst, whom she married in 2020 on Christmas Eve.
Billy Bob Thornton is a married type of man
Billy Bob Thornton was only 23 years old when he married his first wife Melissa Lee Gatlin. in 1978. The marriage only lasted until 1980, and Gatlin has remained out of the public eye since her divorce, with very little information about her available online. Actor Toni Lawrence was Thornton's second wife. They were married between 1986 and 1988. Similar to Gatlin, not much is known about Lawrence other than her past work on television.
Thornton walked down the aisle with actress Cynda Williams after that, and the marriage lasted from 1990 to 1992. Some might know Williams from Spike Lee's 1990 film "Mo‘ Better Blues. " Pietra Dawn Cherniak was wife number four, and that marriage lasted from 1993 to 1997. She had two children with Thornton, William and Harry. But the most striking marriage of the actor was with Angelina Jolie, with whom he was married. from 2000-2002. It seemed like the media loved the quirky nature of their relationship and joint star power. Thornton then married makeup artist Connie Angland in 2014, and as of 2021, they are still going strong. The couple also have a daughter named Bella Thornton.
Gary Oldman hasn't let divorce hold him back
Gary Oldman has been in a long list of movies and TV shows since the early 1980s, but one of his main roles in life has been that of a husband. In fact, he played the role five different times and it wasn't always critically acclaimed. Oldman first married fellow English actor Lesley Manville in 1987 but they separated in 1990. They met at the Royal Court Theater in London and have a son named Alfie. Shortly after the split, Oldman married Uma Thurman and they were together from 1990 to 1992. By Yahoo! News, the former couple began dating on the set of "State of Grace", and Thurman once said Vanity Fair that she was 18 when they met and he 30. He also said that the marriage was a "mistake ».
From 1997 to 2001, Oldman was married to Donya Fiorentino, and in 2018 she accused him of physical and emotional abuse. She made the accusation to TMZ after winning a Best Actor award for her role in "Darkest Hour." Wife number four was singer Alexandra Edenborough, to whom Oldman was married from 2008 to 2015. Edenborough cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the divorce, according to the Los Angeles Times. Oldman later married Gisele Schmidt in 2017 in Beverly Hills, California.
Sean Bean thought he was through with the marriage
English actor Sean Bean can certainly be called a fan of marriage (or at least weddings), having walked down the aisle five times. Debra James was his first wife. The Mirror says they dated when they were young students and that their marriage lasted from 1981 to 1988. Melanie Hill, also an actress, was Bean's second wife. They were also married for seven years, from 1990 to 1997, and have two daughters together. "I love Sean because he gave me my children and I will always love him," Hill said in a 1997 interview during the divorce, which was shared by The Free Library.
After he ended that marriage, the "Game of Thrones" actor met his third wife, Abigail Cruttenden, on the set of his television series "Sharpe," as Quick Points. They exchanged "I do" in 1997, then divorced in 2000. Eight years later, Bean married actress Georgina Sutcliffe, but they divorced in 2010. We Weekly reports that Bean was arrested after he was suspected of assaulting her. Sutcliffe. He was also arrested in 2012 for allegedly harassing her through phone calls and text messages. He married his next wife, Ashley Moore, 26 years his junior, in June 2017. "I wasn't planning on getting married again, but I wasn't planning on meeting someone as amazing as Ashley," Bean told the Daily Mail in 2017. I can't wait to spend the rest of our lives together.
Eva Longoria kept her marriage a secret
Eva Longoria may not have been married as many times as other people on this list, but she is certainly not a novice at being someone's wife. Walking down the hall three times, the "Desperate Housewives" student first married actor Tyler Christopher in 2002. At the time, the public didn't even know they had eloped in Las Vegas, not until they divorced in 2004. "We both have our habits that we won't give up," Longoria told Soap Opera Digest in an interview that was captured by Wayback Machine.
Retired NBA star Tony Parker was Longoria's second husband. They were married between 2007 and 2011, and the split was said to have been caused by Parker exchanging explicit text messages with Erin Barry, the wife of Brent Barry, her former teammate on the San Antonio Spurs. A TMZ source said Parker denied physically cheating on Longoria, but admitted to having sex with Erin. Longoria also found hundreds of those racy messages on Parker's phone, according to US Weekly, for which he was caught red-handed. The Texas native then married José Bastón in 2016 in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, after they dated for nearly three years, which People detailed. Bastón is the president of Televisa, the largest media company in Latin America, for El sol. As of 2021, the pair is still going strong.
Kim Kardashian married when she was a teenager
Kim Kardashian has been one of the most famous people on the planet for some time now, which means that all three of her marriages have been placed in a huge spotlight. But her first marriage was before she achieved celebrity status, and it was to composer Damon Thomas from 2000 to 2004. She was only 19 at the time, according to Screen Rant, and he was 29. And listen to this: the star from reality once admitted to an episode of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" in which she married Thomas while in ecstasy. She also called him controlling and physically abusive, which he denied.
Kardashian's second marriage in 2011 was to retired NBA player Kris Humphries, and she filed for divorce. after just 72 days. Most likely, she associates the brief marriage with the classy and elegant wedding they had, which cost a reported $ 10 million and aired over two nights on "Keeping Up with the Kardashians." In 2017, while she was on "Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen" Kardashian said that she knew the marriage was a mistake as early as the honeymoon. Oh! Her next and most talked about marriage was to Kanye West, and she married him in 2014 in Florence, Italy. Among the many paparazzi photos of the couple and the red carpet moments, they found time to have four children together: North, Saint, as well as Chicago and Psalm, who were born through a surrogate. Issues surrounding the couple began to emerge in 2020, with Kardashian filing for divorce in February 2021.
Maybe the third time will be the charm for Britney Spears
Britney Spears has made it clear that she wants to marry her fiancé Sam Asghari. Unfortunately, due to the restrictive guardianship she was under for years, that was not possible. Now that papa Jamie Spears is no longer running her life, the pop singer may find that the third time is the charm if she ends up marrying Asghari, who proposed to her in September 2021. But before him, there were two husbands.
First she was her childhood friend Jason Alexander, to whom she was married for a full 55 hours. It was the new year of 2004 and Spears invited Alexander on a trip to Las Vegas. "She came out and asked me," Alexander told ABC News. "She was like, 'Well, let's get married.' And I was like, 'Sure. You know, let's do this. ' He claimed that the two of them had been drinking, but she didn't blame alcohol for this quick wedding. Alexander insisted that he "was in love with her." However, once Spears's family and managers found out about the nuptials, things just as quickly fizzled out and ended in an annulment.
Spears tried "one more time" in 2004, when she married backup dancer Kevin Federline, just three months after they started dating. As Federline told People in 2008, he "He was madly in love with her." The couple had two children, but they separated in 2007. Hopefully, things will be different with Asghari, whom Spears has been dating since 2016.
