Britney Spears' recent wedding to Jason Allen Alexander may be the record-holder for shortest celebrity wedding. Just hours after tying the knot, they were filing for an annullment. Although Britney Spear’s marriage and divorce to Kevin Federline has been the subject of many magazines and tabloids, it will not be known as her shortest marriage. Her annulment in 2004 of her marriage to hometown friend Jason Alexander occurred just 55 hours after their Vegas wedding took place.What other brief celebrity weddings are in the running for the title?
8 months - Jennifer Lopez and Cris Judd
wed October 2001, split July 2002.
(see also Jennifer Lopez and Ojani Noa wed February 1997, split March 1998. 13 months.
8 months - Elizabeth Taylor and Nicky Hilton
May 1950, split January 1951.
Famed bride Elizabeth Taylor got a jump on her string of weddings with her first marriage to hotelier (and grandfather to sisters Nicky and Paris Hilton) Nicky Hilton. 19 year-old Elizabeth reportedly said about the wedding, "I have a woman's body and a child's emotions."
7 months - Courtney Thorne-Smith and Andrew Conrad
wed June 2000, split January 2001.
They couldn't even make it to when their wedding pictures were infamously published by Instyle Magazine in February/March 2001.
5 months - Shannen Doherty and Ashley Hamilton
wed September 1993, split February 1994.
(See also Shannen Doherty and Rick Salomon wed February 2002, split November 2002. 9 months. Yes, this is the same Rick Salomon of the Paris Hilton sex tape fame.)
5 months -Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman
wed November 1998, split March 1999.
Like Britney and Jason, these two were wed in a quickie Vegas wedding. Rodman initially tried to get an annullment after nine days of wedded bliss, but the two managed to stick it out another four and a half months.
4 months, 24 days - Charlie Sheen and Donna Peele
wed September 1995, split February 1996.
3 months, 15 days - Lisa Marie Presley and Nicolas Cage
wed August 2002, split November 2002.
(See also Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson wed May 1994, split December 1995. 20 months.)
32 days - Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman
wed June 1964, split July 1964. 32 days
30 days - Drew Barrymore and Jeremy Thomas
wed March 1994, split April 1994.
(see also Drew Barrymore and Tom Green wed July 2001, split December 2001. Five months.)
9 days - Cher and Gregg Allman
wed July 1975, split July 1975.
Kids, another example of why you've got to watch out for those Vegas weddings. Just three days after divorcing Sonny Bono, Cher and musician Gregg Allman spontaneously flew to Vegas in his Lear Jet to wed. However, she reportedly soon discovered that his drug and alcohol problems were too much for her, and filed for divorce after only nine days.
8 days - Dennis Hopper and Michelle Phillips
wed October 1970, split November 1970.
6 hours - Rudolph Valentino & Jean Acker
wed and split November 1919.
The jury's still out on whether Britney's marriage was shorter than famed lover Rudolph Valentino's. After just six hours, the bride locked Valentino out of the honeymoon suite! He soon gave up and headed home. However, they didn't finalize a divorce until 1922.
Married 9 times, Hollywood socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor claims that she had one of the shortest celebrity marriages when her nuptials to Felipe de Alba were annulled after only one day in 1982. After Alba, Gabor married her ninth husband Prince Frederick von Anhalt, who said he had an affair with Anna Nicole Smith and could possibly be the father of her daughter, Dannielyn.A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it,” Gabor has expressed.
When you think of actress Robin Givens you may remember her horrible year long marriage to boxer Mike Tyson, however you may not know that her marriage to tennis instructor Syetozar Marinkovic lasted as long as the day they wed in 1997. Givens may have had some depressive days to go through but has since learned to move on with her life.To love somebody who you feel can actually do you much harm, it’s really confusing,” she said about Tyson.
Therefore, I declare that Britney Spears and Jason Allen Alexander take the prize for shortest celebrity marriage!
Thursday, July 7, 2011
shortest celebrity marriages
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