18 celebrity couples you forgot divorced each other
Celebrity divorces seem to occur at a rate faster than those of us mere mortals. Why this is remains unclear. What's cooking in Hollywood that makes so many people want to tie the knot before barely learning their partner's last name? It happens so often that you may have forgotten about a few A-list unions that were super-duper short-lived.
We all know about Jennifer Garner's marriage to Ben Affleck, but did you know she was also married to Scandal heartthrob Scott Foley once upon a time? Or how about Kim Kardashian's first marriage, which, nope, wasn't to Kris Humphries? Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett? Yes, that's a thing that happened. See also: Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson and Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray. The list goes on.
Check out these 18 short-lived celebrity marriages that quickly became celebrity divorces you probably forgot all about.
Getty ImagesJennifer Esposito and Bradley Cooper
Before he was Jackson Maine, Cooper was Mr. Jennifer Esposito—for four months, anyway. The couple got married in December 2006 before the actress filed for divorce in May 2007.
Getty ImagesGeena Davis and Jeff Goldblum
Davis and Goldblum met on the set of Transylvania 6-5000 and, after making two more films together, tied the knot in Las Vegas in 1987. The divorce came just three years later, with the couple citing "irreconcilable differences."
Getty ImagesGary Oldman and Uma Thurman
The prestige actors said "I do" to each other in 1990 but divorced two years later. Thurman went on to marry Ethan Hawke in 1998, but they divorced in 2005. Oldman, meanwhile, is currently married to his fifth partner: art curator Gisele Schmidt.
Getty ImagesHow Aquette and Cage met is somewhat of a Hollywood myth. Rumour has it they met in a deli and Cage proposed to her on the spot. Regardless of what happened, the two did very much get married in 1995, but they ultimately divorced in 2001.
Getty ImagesJennifer Garner and Scott Foley
"We didn't have a shot," Garner told Allure in 2013 about her marriage to Scandal star Scott Foley, which lasted from 2000 to 2003. "He's a really good guy, and we just imploded."
Getty ImagesSandra Oh and Alexander Payne
The Killing Eve star and the Oscar-winning director married in 2003 after working together on the movie Sideways. They split in 2005 and, according to People, took quite a long time to settle their finances.
Getty ImagesCindy Crawford and Richard Gere
Crawford and Gere married in 1991 but quickly divorced four years later. “I think part of the problem in our relationship was that we were a lot of other things, but I don’t know if we were ever friends—like peers, because I was young, and he was Richard Gere," Crawford said of the relationship in 2014.
Getty ImagesNicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley
Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley were only married for three months before the actor filed for divorce in November 2002. “I’m sad about this, but we shouldn’t have been married in the first place,” Presley said in a statement at the time while Cage's response was, "I did not comment on the marriage, I am not going to comment on the divorce.”
Getty ImagesCher and Gregg Allman
It was only three days after Cher finalized her divorce from Sonny Bono that she married rock singer Gregg Allman. Their breakup was just as quick: Cher filed for divorce only nine days later. They ultimately reconciled and stayed together until 1977.
Getty ImagesJulia Roberts and Lyle Lovett
In 1993, Julia Roberts—pretty much the biggest movie star in the world at the time—pulled off a surprise wedding to singer Lyle Lovett before one of his concerts in Indiana. "It happened rapidly, very rapidly," Lovett's manager, Ken Levitan, said at the time. "Lyle's extremely excited. He couldn't be happier." But it only lasted about 21 months.
Getty ImagesHelen Hunt and Hank Azaria
After dating for five years, Helen Hunt and Hank Azaria married in 1999; they divorced in 2000 after only 17 months of being husband and wife. “Getting over someone is a grieving process,” Azaria told Elle several years ago. “You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by ‘Out of sight, out of mind.’ But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.”
Getty ImagesKim Kardashian and Damon Thomas
No, Kim Kardashian's "fairy-tale wedding" to Kris Humphries wasn't the first time she got married. In 2000 she eloped with music producer Damon Thomas. However, the marriage was short-lived: The couple divorced in 2004.
Getty ImagesCarmen Electra and Dennis Rodman
Electra and Rodman had a quickie wedding in Las Vegas in November 1998. Nine days later, Rodman filed for an annulment, but the couple reconciled on New Year's Eve before ultimately divorcing in April 1999. Electra told Glamour in 2004 she married Rodman to help numb the pain of losing her mother and sister. "Right after my mom and sister died, I flew to Las Vegas, and Dennis and I got married. I guess I was trying to cling to whatever I had. I'd lost my mom and my sister; I didn't want to lose anyone else," she said.
Getty ImagesElisabeth Moss and Fred Armisen
Moss and Armisen married in 2009 but divorced just eight months later; their separation was finalized in 2011. “Looking back, I feel like I was really young, and at the time I didn’t think that I was that young,” Moss said of the marriage to New York magazine in 2014. “It was extremely traumatic and awful and horrible.”
Getty ImagesBrooke Shields and Andre Agassi
Brooke Shields and tennis star Andre Agassi were quite the hot couple for a bit in the '90s, but that seems like a million years ago now. They divorced after two years of marriage in 1999, and it made the cover of People . She went on to marry Funny or Die co-creator Chris Henchy, and Agassi wed fellow tennis player Steffi Graf.
Getty ImagesSophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray
The One Tree Hill co-stars married in 2005 but split just five months later, with Bush eventually filing for an annulment. “Sophia went into the marriage believing in the sanctity of marriage, and Chad simply did not share that vision," a source told People at the time.
Getty ImagesPamela Anderson and Kid Rock
Before she started hanging out with Julian Assange—but after her tumultuous marriage to Tommy Lee—Pamela Anderson was briefly married to Kid Rock. They married on a yacht in July 2006 and promptly divorced in November. Anderson says she never spoke to the singer again after that.
Getty ImagesJustin Hartley and Chrishell Stause
The This Is Us star shocked fans in November when he filed for divorce from Chrishell Stause—a former soap star turned realtor who also appears on the reality show, Selling Sunset—after just two years of marriage. “Justin had been having problems with the marriage for a while,” a source told Us Weekly .
