posted on June 6, 2004 08:51:23 PM new
DISASTROUS CELEBRITY MARRIAGES
Charlie Sheen and Donna Peele
Their Story: Just weeks after Sheen testified that he spent more than $50,000 in a year on Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss' call girls, the Wall Street star married Peele, whom he had met six weeks earlier, while filming a commercial.
The Heartbreak: Sheen found religion and dumped his wife after six months of marriage, in spring 1996. "There was a voice. Not like drug-induced voices, but there was a voice that kept telling me this will not work," Sheen told Us magazine.
The Aftermath: Sheen, 38, married former Bond girl Denise Richards last year, and they're now expecting a child. The couple will appear together next month in Scary Movie 3 — an appropriate title for a film about Sheen's sex life, though the coincidence is unintentional.
Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman
Their Story: To cap off a night of heavy drinking, the Baywatch babe and the rainbow-haired basketball star tied the knot in Las Vegas.
The Heartbreak: Rodman sought an annulment 10 days later, claiming he didn't even remember the ceremony. They were divorced in March 1999.
The Aftermath: Electra, 31, is now considering turning her next marriage — to rocker Dave Navarro — into a reality TV event. "MTV approached us," she told reporters. "We're thinking about it."
Famous for rebounds (at least in the NBA), Rodman marked his 42nd birthday in May by walking down the isle with 36-year-old Michelle Moyer, with whom he has two children.
Rodman has his own secret to marital bliss — he and his wife live in separate homes, a mile apart, in Newport Beach, Calif. "I like it that way," Rodman told reporters in May. "Michelle and the kids come over on weekends."
Robert Evans and Catherine Oxenberg
Their Story: In July 1998, the man who produced such classics as The Godfather, Chinatown and Marathon Man was smitten with actress Catherine Oxenberg, who played Joan Collins' daughter on Dynasty and appeared twice as Princess Diana in TV movies.
When Evans, 68, met the 36-year-old actress, he had recently suffered a stroke and was writing a book about his near-death experience, I Heard the Fat Lady Sing.
The Heartbreak: Within nine days, their marriage was annulled. "I forgot it had only been six weeks since I had been hit with a stroke," Evans told Variety.
The Aftermath: Now 73, Evans has divorced for the sixth time, parting in July with 34-year-old Versace model Leslie Ann Woodward. Ironically, it was not long after his latest flick, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Oxenberg, 41, is married to actor Casper Van Dien and they have one child.
Drew Barrymore and Tom Green
Their Story: She was a party-hardy child star who had been married and divorced within a month to bartender Jeremy Thomas. Green was TV's leading shock comic, famous for cavorting in public in a moose carcass, interviewing his parents about their sexual fetishes, and putting his cancerous testicle on public display.
The Heartbreak: Hollywood's weirdest couple teased the public relentlessly during a 17-month courtship, once promising to marry on Saturday Night Live. They tied the knot in Malibu in July 2001. Five months later, shortly after the couple escaped a fire in Barrymore's Beverly Hills home, Green filed for divorce.
The Aftermath: Green, 32, who now hosts an MTV talk show, told People, "I've had wind that lasted longer than our marriage." He recently announced that he's placed an online personal ad on Yahoo!, while she's been dating the Strokes' drummer, Fabrizio Moretti.
Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley
Their Story: He was Elvis Presley's biggest fan and she was the greatest souvenir at Graceland. They married in August 2002, days before the 25th anniversary of the King's death, and spent that night in his Memphis shrine.
Their Heartbreak: After that evening, reports emerged that Presley and Cage rarely spent time together. Five months later, he filed for divorce and she proclaimed, "We shouldn't have got married in the first place."
The Aftermath: Presley's third marriage was even shorter than her amazing 20-month union with Michael Jackson. At 35, she managed to launch her singing career while Cage, 39, earned an Oscar nomination for Adaptation.
Mike Tyson and Robin Givens
Their Story: He was the youngest heavyweight champ in boxing history and she was the star of TV's Head of the Class. The couple sat side by side in a 1988 interview with Barbara Walters, in which Givens described her husband as "incredibly abusive" at times and "frightening." Police were later called to his New Jersey mansion, after he went on a rampage, hurling furniture out the windows.
The Heartbreak: They were divorced just a year after they were married, on Valentine's Day 1989.
The Aftermath: Tyson, 37, served a three-year prison term for a 1992 rape conviction. After earning more than $300 million as a fighter, he filed for bankruptcy this year. Months earlier, as part of a divorce settlement, the fighter agreed to pay his second wife, Monica, $6.5 million from future earnings.
"I've probably cheated on every woman I've ever been with … because I never respected myself," Tyson told ESPN.
Talk about losing patience with men: Givens gave marriage a second try, exchanging vows with her tennis instructor Syetozar Marinkovic on Aug. 22, 1997. They separated that same day.
A year later, she had a child with tennis player Murphy Jensen, although they're no longer together.
Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett
Their Story: The box-office queen had been set to marry Kiefer Sutherland in 1991 but broke that off, reportedly on the eve of their wedding. Roberts finally walked down the aisle with a crazy-haired country singer. "It's true that I did get the girl," Lovett told UPI. "But then my grandfather always used to say: 'Even a blind chicken will find a few grains of corn now and then.' "
The Heartbreak: Just weeks after the March 1993 wedding, gossip pages reported that the couple rarely spent the night together, even when they were in the same city. They filed for divorce 21 months later, claiming they were still good friends.
The Aftermath: Roberts, 35, married cameraman Danny Moder last year after a four-year relationship to Benjamin Bratt fizzled. Lovett, 45, remains single.
Dennis Hopper and Michelle Phillips
Their Story: She was a singer in the Mamas and the Papas. In 1970, she split with her husband and bandmate John Phillips and showed up at the Oscars with Dennis Hopper, who had just co-written, directed and starred in Easy Rider. It was a trick-or-treat surprise that Halloween when they married.
The Heartbreak: Their marriage was over in eight days. Hopper admits that he was in a fog of drugs and alcohol for much of that time.
The Aftermath: Hopper, 67, is now married to his fifth wife, Victoria Duff, who gave birth to their first child in March. He has four other children.
Phillips didn't marry again for 30 years, finally settling down with plastic surgeon Dr. Steven Zax of Houston. She continues to act, and was a panelist a year and a half ago on the final airing of ABC's Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher.
Zsa Zsa Gabor and Felipe De Alba
Their Story: A leading authority on divorce, Zsa Zsa Gabor is famous for saying, ""A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it." Another favorite: "I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back."
Of all her marriages, the strangest was her eighth, to Count Felipe de Alba, a Mexican lawyer. They exchanged vows on his yacht in 1982, 12 years after meeting at a polo match in France, with a mariachi band performing at the reception.
The Heartbreak: The band had hardly stopped playing when the union was declared null and void. Gabor was still technically married to her seventh husband, divorce lawyer Michael O'Hara, who had extricated her from her sixth marriage.
The Aftermath: Gabor's ninth marriage — to Prince Frederick von Anhalt of Germany — has been her longest. They've been together since 1986. Following a car accident, Gabor has been hospitalized for much of the past year. She told reporters on her 86th birthday that she hoped to be home soon and expected her husband to give her "something shiny."
Honorable mentions: Serial brides Joan Collins and Elizabeth Taylor, who have been married a combined 13 times (if you count Richard Burton twice); reality TV's Darva Conger and Rick Rockwell; the tattooed Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton … and Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman, two of the loudest people in Hollywood history, who stayed married for a whole month in 1964.
posted on June 6, 2004 11:05:44 PM new
I assume this was a follow-up to the announcement of J-Lo's marriage number 3 to Marc Anthony who married, divorced, remarried in a multimillion dollar affair and the redivorced a former Miss Universe just last month?
Anyone taking bets? I give it 18 months if the only project during is a movie, 2 years if one of them cuts and album and tours. If neither happens... 18 months but seperate residences within 6.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on June 7, 2004 12:34:04 AM new
yeager-Thanks for the history on the liberal actors and actresses. Why I say that (liberal) is because of all the talk during the last election from a group of celebrities that said if Pres Bush is elected they they will leave the country. They are still here.
It is difficult to compare these people (celebrities) with the rest of the marriages in the US because we have no statistics on them. We have none on the gay marriages as they are not legal. Now if they become legally married then it will take a while to compile the statistics.
I will tell you it is tough to live with someone a long time. We change, sometimes for the good and sometimes not. I am sure it will happen with the gays also.
posted on June 7, 2004 10:24:36 AM new
Alec Baldwin was married now divorced. Barbra Stresan was in that group also. No it was not just them as there was a group. It seems like yeager forgot to mention that. I am sorry I don't have a web site or official announcement from them as it seems that is the only way to prove something to this crowd but yes they did make that statement.
posted on June 7, 2004 10:35:19 AM new
So by your reckoning Republicans don't get divorces? Or marry more than once?
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posted on June 7, 2004 11:50:34 AM new
By following Libras strand of logic . the divorced and remarried actor Ronald Reagan was clearly a screaming liberal.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
I would be in favor of only allowing a person to marry once. After all divorce is wrong in the Catholic Church.
The only way a person could marry again is upon death of his/her 1st spouse. If a married couple wanted to split up and no longer live together I would not stop them, but I would not allow them to get a divorce so they could re-marry.
How would the straight community feel if president Bush wanted a constitutional amendment saying straight people could not divorce.
Re-defeat Bush
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June is Gay Pride Month
posted on June 7, 2004 12:06:06 PM new
Yes Libra - you are correct - when you change reported statements from coming from the voice of one man - Alec Baldwin and now credit it to an entire community, there is going to be a call for verification.
Truth be told, Baldwin never actually made the statement, it was a reinterpretation based on a quote his wife gave to a german magazine.
The Striesand rumor came from a comment she made during a Clinton Admin White House dinner. "I don't think you'll see me around here for at least four years." ... As in the White House, not the country as so many conservatives have re-interpreted the statement to mean.
Only two high profile people actually clearly stated they would leave the country - Robert Altman who did not leave and former Press Secretarty Pierre Salinger who did.
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posted on June 7, 2004 05:21:28 PM new
Wheres the stats on the long lasting , one time only 'celebrity' marriages.... they don't get the big headlines, like the married 4, 5+ time ones. I can right now think of a couple. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Mel Gibson and his wife, Robin? I'm sure there are more.
posted on June 7, 2004 06:34:51 PM new
Here are some Near ....
Martin & Janet Sheen - 43 years
Samuel L Jackson & LaTonya Richardson - 24 years
Denzel Washington & Pauletta Pearson - 21 years
John Travolta & Kelly Preston - 13 years
Bradley Whitford & Jane Kazmerick - 12 years
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posted on June 7, 2004 09:43:29 PM new
Bob & Dolores Hope - 69 years
Alec & Merula Guinness - 62 years
Charlton & Lydia Heston - 60 years
Tony & Florence Randall - 50 years (until her death)
Tony & Heather Randall - 9 years (until his death)
Jay & Mavis Leno - 24 years
Stephen & Tabitha King - 33 years
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. -- John F. Kennedy
I am not sure that I know what you mean by the comment. Your comments are sometimes incomplete in thought.
However, with that said, countering your comments are usually like shooting fish in a fish bowl. And even a blind man could do that.
AIN'T LIFE GRAND
True Americans do not exclude anybody. They recognize that everyone should have the same rights. Bigotry, intolerance and hatred are cancers of the mind.
posted on June 9, 2004 06:32:56 AM new
Life is Grand glad you agree
I am curious, do you also enable pedophiles? Child molesters?, Alcoholics? Drug abusers? After all those are sicknesses of the mind, just as being gay is...
and your comments about we should worry about more important things in another thread is quite funny, considering you are pushing your agenda on everyone and not worrying about other things... some of us can see what is right and wrong... same sex marriage is wrong... these marriages were a sham, so what is the percentage here of all the marriages in the US?
If this issue is really such a non issue with you, why have you continually brought it up?
I know that as a society we can never rid ourselves of gays, pedophiles, child molesters and other deviants... however if we can at least get a minor victory over them, that would be worth celebrating.
I know that as a society we can never rid ourselves of gays, pedophiles, child molesters and other deviants... however if we can at least get a minor victory over them, that would be worth celebrating.
First of all, I do not condone any form of child molestation. You should understand that pedophilia and child molestation ARE the same thing. Your statement shows how little you know about the subject. Gay men and women are not child molesters. Many have their own child and have a strong hatred to any child molester.
You can believe that gays are child molesters all you want. There is nothing that I or anyone else can do about it. You can also believe that two and two is five, and there is nothing that anyone can do about it either.
Being gay is not a sickness as you state. In 1972, after much consideration and study, the American Psychological Association took it off the list of mental illnesses. They are a third party disinterested group of highly educated and highly respected professionals. What are your credentials?
Since that time, most of America has learned to deal with it, how come you haven't.
True Americans do not exclude anybody. They recognize that everyone should have the same rights. Bigotry, intolerance and hatred are cancers of the mind.
posted on June 9, 2004 06:34:47 PM newSince that time, most of America has learned to deal with it, how come you haven't.
LOL...
I think not, considering how many in the US are against same sex marriages.... the majority are against this and I think most would like to seem them back in the closet.
I will stand corrected, and was thinking that when I submitted, but to worth changing... had to give you something to point out...
However deviants one and the same... homosexuals included.
They can and have received medical help in combating that deviant behavior...
posted on June 9, 2004 08:41:15 PM new
Twelve says,
They can and have received medical help in combating that deviant behavior.
Oh really, clue us in on this. It should be quite interesting, and maybe good for a hearty laugh.
Bigotry is wrong!
AIN'T LIFE GRAND...
True Americans do not exclude anybody. They recognize that everyone should have the same rights. Bigotry, intolerance and hatred are cancers of the mind.
Let's see how many threads you can start again about this yeager... you're quite the enabler you are... John Wayne Gacy and Jeffery Dahlmer would of been proud...
posted on June 10, 2004 08:45:07 AM new
Uh, take your standard 110 volt electrical plug and attempt to insert it into another plug. Pretty much of a sham.
Not a good argument.
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posted on June 10, 2004 11:41:33 AM new
12:Here is a very good website for those who do not understand the homosexual agenda...
NARTH's primary goal is to make effective psychological therapy available to all homosexual men and women who seek change. Furthermore, we wish to open for public discussion all issues relating to homosexuality.
Looks like Twelve has been brainwashed by this group. What makes you think most homosexuals want to change? What is this groups agenda, 12? Is this groups agenda to make all think homosexuality is wrong?
NARTH wants to build an atmosphere which allows an honest debate--balancing the one-sided distortion which has characterized the discussion.
Have you read what the group is all about 12? ....ALLOWS AN HONEST DEBATE....I find that hard to believe. If they are all like you, twelve? There is a one-sided discussion by this group, that being homosexuality is wrong.
Re-defeat Bush
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June is Gay Pride Month
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Change is constant. The history of mankind is about change. One set of beliefs is pushed aside by a new set. The old order is swept away by the new. If people become attached to the old order, they see their best interest in defending it. They become the losers. They become the old order and in turn are vulnerable. People who belong to the new order are winners.
James A Belaco & Ralph C. Stayer
Damher and Gacy? I hated them both. I hate what they did to innocent people. I am GLAD they are both dead! BTW, don't confuse them with consenting gay men and women. They were kidnappers and murderers. There is a big difference. This is another example of how you try unsuccessfully to cloud this issue.
Now on to you,
About gays being cured. Have you been cured yet, or are you still working on it? Maybe you could start working on a cure for it. Could there be a Nobel Prize for you in the future? However again, there is no cure for homosexuality in the fact it is NOT AN ILLNESS. We only strive to cure what we believe is an illness, and not other things.
Bigotry is wrong!
AIN'T LIFE GRAND...
True Americans do not exclude anybody. They recognize that everyone should have the same rights. Bigotry, intolerance and hatred are cancers of the mind.
