The 10 Shortest Celebrity Marriages Ever
The news that the just-married Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds became just-separated after only two weeks is surprising, but not shocking. Why? Because their union is not the shortest celebrity marriage on record. Far from it.
While the Murphy-Edmonds marriage could have sneaked into the top 10 list, it actually doesn’t count, since they were married in French Polynesia—a foreign country—and therefore isn’t legal in the U.S.
Here are the 10 shortest celebrity marriages ever:
1. Rudolph Valentino & Jean Acker
Married: November 1919
Split after six hours (!!!!)
2. Zsa Zsa Gabor and Felipe de Alba
Married: April 13, 1983
Split after 1 day
and
Robin Givens and Syetozar Marinkovic
Married: August 22, 1997
Split after 1 day
3. Britney Spears and Jason Alexander
Married: January 3, 2004
Split after 2 days and 7 hours
4. Michelle Phillips and Dennis Hopper
Married: October 31, 1970
Split after 8 days
5. Cher and Gregg Allman
Married: June 30, 1975
Split after 9 days
And
Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra
Married: November 14, 1998
Split after 9 days
6. Robert Evans and Catherine Oxenberg
Married: July 12, 1998
Split after 12 days
7. Darva Conger and Rick Rockwell
Married: February 15, 2000
Split after 3 weeks
8. Drew Barrymore and Jeremy Thomas
Married: March 20, 1994
Split after 4 weeks
9. Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman
Married: June 1964
Split after 32 days
10. Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley
Married: August 10, 2002
Split after 3½ months
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