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| | *Marion Barry, [[Washington D.C.]]'s second ever mayor after Walter Washington, best known for his videotaped crack bust in 1990, first three marriages ended in divorce, including the one to Effi Slaughter, his third wife with whom he had his only child and was married to when he was in the videotape with a model. His fourth marriage to Cora Masters when the one to Effi ended was the only one that ended in death-his in 2014. | | *Marion Barry, [[Washington D.C.]]'s second ever mayor after Walter Washington, best known for his videotaped crack bust in 1990, first three marriages ended in divorce, including the one to Effi Slaughter, his third wife with whom he had his only child and was married to when he was in the videotape with a model. His fourth marriage to Cora Masters when the one to Effi ended was the only one that ended in death-his in 2014. |
| | *Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress who achieved U.S. fame in the 1940s with ''[[Casablanca]]'' (1942) and ''The Bells Of St. Mary's'' (1945). In 1950, Ingrid, who was married to fellow Swede, Peter Lindstrom, had an affair with director Roberto Rosellini while in Italy filming his direction of the movie, ''Stromboli'' (1950) and remained there after becoming pregnant with his child. This caused her to be blacklisted from U.S. films and denounced from pulpits as "an agent of evil" until her U.S. comeback in ''Anastasia'' (1956). Her marriage to Rosellini, like the one to Lindstrom, ended in divorce, as did her third and last marriage afterwards to Lars Schmidt (1958-1978), four years before her death in 1982. | | *Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress who achieved U.S. fame in the 1940s with ''[[Casablanca]]'' (1942) and ''The Bells Of St. Mary's'' (1945). In 1950, Ingrid, who was married to fellow Swede, Peter Lindstrom, had an affair with director Roberto Rosellini while in Italy filming his direction of the movie, ''Stromboli'' (1950) and remained there after becoming pregnant with his child. This caused her to be blacklisted from U.S. films and denounced from pulpits as "an agent of evil" until her U.S. comeback in ''Anastasia'' (1956). Her marriage to Rosellini, like the one to Lindstrom, ended in divorce, as did her third and last marriage afterwards to Lars Schmidt (1958-1978), four years before her death in 1982. |
| − | *[[Michael Bloomberg]], New York City's mayor from 2002-2013 who continued his predecessor Giuliani's zero-tolerance and "stop and frisk" policies towards street crimes divorced his former wife in 1993 after 18 years of marriage and two children and is now living with his domestic partner Diana Taylor since 2000. | + | *[[Michael Bloomberg]], New York City's mayor from 2002-2013 who continued his predecessor Giuliani's zero-tolerance and "stop and frisk" policies towards street crimes divorced his former wife in 1993 after 18 years of marriage and two children and has been living with his domestic partner Diana Taylor since 2000. |
| | *[[Humphrey Bogart]], His first three marriages ended in divorce and his fourth (to [[Lauren Bacall]]) was the only one ending in death—his in 1957, age 51. | | *[[Humphrey Bogart]], His first three marriages ended in divorce and his fourth (to [[Lauren Bacall]]) was the only one ending in death—his in 1957, age 51. |
| | *Joan Crawford (real name Lucille Fay LeSueur), last of Hollywood's "movie queens" with roles spanning 45 years (1925-1970, most of her popularity in the 1930s) and long since a [[homosexual]] [[idol]], was married and divorced three times and named as the 'other woman' in at least one affair with a married man. Her fourth and last marriage to [[PepsiCo, Inc|Pepsi Company]]'s president Alfred Steele was the only one ending in death (his in 1959). When Joan died in 1977, her public disinheriting of her two oldest remaining adopted children from her $2M estate "for reasons that should be well known to them" was said to have caused her oldest daughter, Christina, to write her best-selling book ''Mommie Dearest'' (1978, adapted into film in 1981), which alleged a lifetime of [[Adultery|extramarital affairs]], [[alcoholism]] and selfishness-based [[child abuse]] at a time when child abuse was rarely talked about in public. Unfortunately, like her adoptive mother, Christina also got married and divorced three times in her own lifetime. | | *Joan Crawford (real name Lucille Fay LeSueur), last of Hollywood's "movie queens" with roles spanning 45 years (1925-1970, most of her popularity in the 1930s) and long since a [[homosexual]] [[idol]], was married and divorced three times and named as the 'other woman' in at least one affair with a married man. Her fourth and last marriage to [[PepsiCo, Inc|Pepsi Company]]'s president Alfred Steele was the only one ending in death (his in 1959). When Joan died in 1977, her public disinheriting of her two oldest remaining adopted children from her $2M estate "for reasons that should be well known to them" was said to have caused her oldest daughter, Christina, to write her best-selling book ''Mommie Dearest'' (1978, adapted into film in 1981), which alleged a lifetime of [[Adultery|extramarital affairs]], [[alcoholism]] and selfishness-based [[child abuse]] at a time when child abuse was rarely talked about in public. Unfortunately, like her adoptive mother, Christina also got married and divorced three times in her own lifetime. |
| | *[[Cecil B. DeMille]], despite his direction of popular Biblical epics, committed [[adultery]] during his marriage to Constance Adams that, surprisingly, lasted until his death in 1959, age 77. | | *[[Cecil B. DeMille]], despite his direction of popular Biblical epics, committed [[adultery]] during his marriage to Constance Adams that, surprisingly, lasted until his death in 1959, age 77. |
| − | *Frances Farmer, who was the subject of a 1982 biopic starring Jessica Lange (who herself adopted Frances' lifestyle into her own real life), as a [[public school]]er in 1931 denied God in a controversial award-winning high school essay called ''God Dies'' and in 1935, visited the [[USSR]], was also popular in the 1930s to the point of being considered "the next [[Greta Garbo]]", had three marriages at least two of whom ended in divorce, with extramarital affairs during at least one that included one with married play writer Clifford Odets. She also had a then-illegal [[abortion]] which left her sterile; the guilt of which caused her to avoid all contact with children. In 1958, however, when she moved to [[Indianapolis]] (she died there in 1970 at age 56), a friend's child whispered to her "I love you because you're good", something that nobody ever said or maybe even thought about her before. Soon afterwards, she went to St. [[Joan of Arc]] Catholic Church in where she went to [[confession]] of all her sins and took up classes about and in 1959 was baptized into the Catholic faith, turning away from her former lifestyle. | + | *Frances Farmer, who was the subject of a 1982 biopic starring Jessica Lange (who herself adopted Frances' lifestyle into her own real life), as a [[public school]]er in 1931 denied God in a controversial award-winning high school essay called ''God Dies'' and in 1935, visited the [[USSR]], was also popular in the 1930s to the point of being considered "the next Greta Garbo", had three marriages at least two of whom ended in divorce, with extramarital affairs during at least one that included one with married play writer Clifford Odets. She also had a then-illegal [[abortion]] which left her sterile; the guilt of which caused her to avoid all contact with children. In 1958, however, when she moved to [[Indianapolis]] (she died there in 1970 at age 56), a friend's child whispered to her "I love you because you're good", something that nobody ever said or maybe even thought about her before. Soon afterwards, she went to St. [[Joan of Arc]] Catholic Church in where she went to [[confession]] of all her sins and took up classes about and in 1959 was baptized into the Catholic faith, turning away from her former lifestyle, at least until a 1963 arrest for drunk driving. |
| − | *[[Greta Garbo]] shunned marriage for herself altogether but instead engaged in numerous affairs with married men. | + | *Greta Garbo shunned marriage for herself altogether but instead engaged in numerous affairs with married men. |
| − | *[[Ava Gardner]] was married and divorced three times between 1942-1957 and cheated during the marriages. During her marriage to Frank Sinatra (1951-1957, her last), she got pregnant twice and aborted both children because MGM had all sorts of penalty clauses about their stars having babies. | + | *Ava Gardner was married and divorced three times between 1942-1957 and cheated during the marriages. During her marriage to Frank Sinatra (1951-1957, her last), she got pregnant twice and aborted both children because MGM had all sorts of penalty clauses about their stars having babies. |
| | *[[Judy Garland]], best known for her "Dorothy Gale" role in ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' (1939) had five marriages, the first four ended in divorce, the last ended only three months later in her death in 1969 from a barbiturate overdose at age 46. | | *[[Judy Garland]], best known for her "Dorothy Gale" role in ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' (1939) had five marriages, the first four ended in divorce, the last ended only three months later in her death in 1969 from a barbiturate overdose at age 46. |
| | *[[Rudolph Giuliani]], [[New York City]]'s law and order mayor from 1994-2001, was married three times, the first to Regina Peruggi from 1968-1983 until he found that she was his second cousin. During his second marriage (1984-2002) to local television personality Donna Hanover, he had affairs with his press secretary, Christyne Lategano, and with Judith Nathan, even providing Nathan with police escorted chauffeuring services and bringing her to Gracie Manson. In 2002, his divorce from Hanover was finalized and he married Nathan in 2003, making it Nathan's third marriage after two previous divorces. In 2018, Nathan filed for divorce from Giuliani, who is currently dating Republican fundraiser Jennifer LeBlanc. | | *[[Rudolph Giuliani]], [[New York City]]'s law and order mayor from 1994-2001, was married three times, the first to Regina Peruggi from 1968-1983 until he found that she was his second cousin. During his second marriage (1984-2002) to local television personality Donna Hanover, he had affairs with his press secretary, Christyne Lategano, and with Judith Nathan, even providing Nathan with police escorted chauffeuring services and bringing her to Gracie Manson. In 2002, his divorce from Hanover was finalized and he married Nathan in 2003, making it Nathan's third marriage after two previous divorces. In 2018, Nathan filed for divorce from Giuliani, who is currently dating Republican fundraiser Jennifer LeBlanc. |
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| | *[[John Huston]], known for his multi roles in ''The Bible: In The Beginning'' (1966) as the film's director, narrator, [[Noah]] and [[God]]'s voice, was married five times but had affairs in all his marriages, the fourth of who was the only one ending in death-his fourth wife's in 1969. | | *[[John Huston]], known for his multi roles in ''The Bible: In The Beginning'' (1966) as the film's director, narrator, [[Noah]] and [[God]]'s voice, was married five times but had affairs in all his marriages, the fourth of who was the only one ending in death-his fourth wife's in 1969. |
| | *[[Lana Turner]] Seven of her eight of her marriages ended in divorce and one in [[annulment]]. Two of them (her second & third) were to the same man, Steven Crane. | | *[[Lana Turner]] Seven of her eight of her marriages ended in divorce and one in [[annulment]]. Two of them (her second & third) were to the same man, Steven Crane. |
| − | *[[Larry King]] (real name Lawrence Zeiger) has been married eight (8) times to seven (7) different women. | + | *[[Larry King]] (real name Lawrence Zeiger) has been married eight times to seven different women. |
| | *Orenthal James, "O.J.", Simpson, cheated on his first wife, Marguerite L. Whitley, with Nicole Brown, who he met in 1977 while still married to Whitley and with whom he would be charged with spousal abuse of and eventually divorced from in 1992, two years before Brown's and her companion's murders in 1994 that he would be charged with, acquitted of in 1995 but found civilly liable in 1997 for both deaths and ordered to pay $33.5 million to hers and her companion's, Ronald Goldmans', families. | | *Orenthal James, "O.J.", Simpson, cheated on his first wife, Marguerite L. Whitley, with Nicole Brown, who he met in 1977 while still married to Whitley and with whom he would be charged with spousal abuse of and eventually divorced from in 1992, two years before Brown's and her companion's murders in 1994 that he would be charged with, acquitted of in 1995 but found civilly liable in 1997 for both deaths and ordered to pay $33.5 million to hers and her companion's, Ronald Goldmans', families. |
| | *Elizabeth Taylor has been married eight (8) times, including a nearly 6-year marriage to [[John Warner|Senator John Warner]] (R-VA). Taylor was married to and divorced twice from [[Richard Burton]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000072/bio "Elizabeth Taylor biography"] (2004 or bef.). Internet Movie Data Base website.</ref> | | *Elizabeth Taylor has been married eight (8) times, including a nearly 6-year marriage to [[John Warner|Senator John Warner]] (R-VA). Taylor was married to and divorced twice from [[Richard Burton]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000072/bio "Elizabeth Taylor biography"] (2004 or bef.). Internet Movie Data Base website.</ref> |
| − | *Spencer Tracy, best known as Father Flannigan in both ''[[Boys Town]]'' films (1938 and 1941) and also for the pro- [[evolution]] ''[[Inherit the Wind]]'' (1960) and post [[World War II]] courtroom drama ''[[Judgment at Nuremberg]]'' (1961), was married to Louise Ten Broeck Treadwell from 1923-his death in 1967 but engaged in affairs with [[Joan Crawford]], [[Ingrid Bergman]] and his longest one with [[Katharine Hepburn]] until his death, claiming his "devout Catholic faith" was why he never got or sought a divorce from Treadwell. | + | *Spencer Tracy, best known as Father Flannigan in both ''[[Boys Town]]'' films (1938 and 1941) and also for the pro- [[evolution]] ''[[Inherit the Wind]]'' (1960) and post [[World War II]] courtroom drama ''Judgment at Nuremberg'' (1961), was married to Louise Ten Broeck Treadwell from 1923-his death in 1967 but engaged in affairs with [[Joan Crawford]], [[Ingrid Bergman]] and his longest one with [[Katharine Hepburn]] until his death, claiming his "devout Catholic faith" was why he never got or sought a divorce from Treadwell. |
| | *Valerie Bertinelli said her divorce from [[Eddie Van Halen]] was caused by infidelity and drug use—by both spouses. She said she was "destroying my body," trying to keep up with a rock-star lifestyle.<ref>Associated Press (February 26, 2008). [https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,332551,00.html "Valerie Bertinelli about divorce from Eddie Van Halen: 'I wasn't an angel either'"]. Fox News website. See [[Fox News Channel]], [[Associated Press]]</ref> | | *Valerie Bertinelli said her divorce from [[Eddie Van Halen]] was caused by infidelity and drug use—by both spouses. She said she was "destroying my body," trying to keep up with a rock-star lifestyle.<ref>Associated Press (February 26, 2008). [https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,332551,00.html "Valerie Bertinelli about divorce from Eddie Van Halen: 'I wasn't an angel either'"]. Fox News website. See [[Fox News Channel]], [[Associated Press]]</ref> |
| | *Jolie Gabor, mother of the acting family the Gabor sisters (see individual entries below for each sister), and an actress herself, was twice divorced before her third marriage (to Count Edmond de Szigethy in 1957) was the only one lasting until death-his (de Szigethy's) in 1989. | | *Jolie Gabor, mother of the acting family the Gabor sisters (see individual entries below for each sister), and an actress herself, was twice divorced before her third marriage (to Count Edmond de Szigethy in 1957) was the only one lasting until death-his (de Szigethy's) in 1989. |
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| | *Zsa Zsa Gabor, middle sister of the Gabor acting family, has been married nine times. Her second marriage-to Hilton Hotels magnate Conrad Hilton from 1942-1947-was the only one where she (the only Gabor sister to do so) had any children (one with Hilton). One of her marriages—to Felipe de Alba in 1983—was annulled after one day. Her most recent (9th) marriage to Frederic Prinz von Anhalt in 1986 was the only one ending in death-hers on December 18, 2016 at age 99. | | *Zsa Zsa Gabor, middle sister of the Gabor acting family, has been married nine times. Her second marriage-to Hilton Hotels magnate Conrad Hilton from 1942-1947-was the only one where she (the only Gabor sister to do so) had any children (one with Hilton). One of her marriages—to Felipe de Alba in 1983—was annulled after one day. Her most recent (9th) marriage to Frederic Prinz von Anhalt in 1986 was the only one ending in death-hers on December 18, 2016 at age 99. |
| | *Eva Gabor, youngest sister of both Magda and Zsa Zsa, was married and divorced five times and had extramarital affairs with [[Frank Sinatra]] among others. Eva, like her sister Magda, never had any children. | | *Eva Gabor, youngest sister of both Magda and Zsa Zsa, was married and divorced five times and had extramarital affairs with [[Frank Sinatra]] among others. Eva, like her sister Magda, never had any children. |
| − | *Mickey Rooney has been married eight (8) times, but has been with his last wife for 30 years after embracing religion and abandoning his previous lifestyle. | + | *Mickey Rooney has been married eight times, but has been with his last wife for 30 years after embracing religion and abandoning his previous lifestyle. |
| | *[[Frank Sinatra]] was married four times, divorced the first three, had affairs with [[Ava Gardener]] and [[Zsa Zsa Gabor]] and had flings with [[prostitutes]]. | | *[[Frank Sinatra]] was married four times, divorced the first three, had affairs with [[Ava Gardener]] and [[Zsa Zsa Gabor]] and had flings with [[prostitutes]]. |
| − | *[[Charlie Chaplin]] married four (4) times, including his marriage at the age of 54 to an 18-year-old bride. | + | *[[Charlie Chaplin]] married four times, including his marriage at the age of 54 to an 18-year-old bride. |
| − | *[[James Cameron]] has been married five (5) times, one of which ended when he cheated on his wife. He also had an out of wedlock child with his fourth wife. | + | *[[James Cameron]] has been married five times, one of which ended when he cheated on his wife. He also had an out of wedlock child with his fourth wife. |
| − | *[[Johnny Carson]] married four (4) times, and frequently made light of his having divorced three times, as if this were something funny. | + | *[[Johnny Carson]] married four times, and frequently made light of his having divorced three times, as if this were something funny. |
| − | *[[Meredith Baxter]] from ''[[Family Ties]]'', was married and divorced four (4) times. In 2009, she finally admitted that she is a [[homosexual]]. | + | *[[Meredith Baxter]] from ''[[Family Ties]]'', was married and divorced four times. In 2009, she finally admitted that she is a [[homosexual]]. |
| | *[[Larry Flynt]]'s first three marriages ended in divorce, his fourth marriage was the only one ending in [[widow]]ment (his by Althea's death in 1987) and his current one to Elizabeth Berrios in 1998 was when his daughter, Toyna, published her book ''Hustled'' in which she claims she was sexually abused as a child by him and has since been disowned when she became a [[Christian]] and anti-[[pornography]] [[activist]]. | | *[[Larry Flynt]]'s first three marriages ended in divorce, his fourth marriage was the only one ending in [[widow]]ment (his by Althea's death in 1987) and his current one to Elizabeth Berrios in 1998 was when his daughter, Toyna, published her book ''Hustled'' in which she claims she was sexually abused as a child by him and has since been disowned when she became a [[Christian]] and anti-[[pornography]] [[activist]]. |
| | *In 2009, the married [[David Letterman]] admitted to having had adulterous sexual relationships with multiple members of his staff; he had previously fathered a child out of wedlock. | | *In 2009, the married [[David Letterman]] admitted to having had adulterous sexual relationships with multiple members of his staff; he had previously fathered a child out of wedlock. |