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| | *[[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. | | *[[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, 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, 51. |
| − | *William Bratton, Los Angeles Police Department chief from 2002-2009 after being previously commissioner of Boston Police Department from 1993-1994 | + | *William Bratton, Los Angeles Police Department chief from 2002-2009 after previously commissioner of Boston Police Department from 1993-1994 and New York City's from 1994-1996 and 2014-2016 first three marriages ended in divorce before his current marriage (1999-present). |
| − | and New York City's police commissioner from 1994-1996 and 2014-2016, was divorced three times before his current marriage (1999-present). | + | *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 she 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, at least until a 1963 arrest for drunk driving. | | *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. |