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The entertainment industry isn't always the best place to find lasting love. From Nicolas Cage to Elizabeth Taylor, these are the celebrities with the most marriages.
Jennifer Lopez
Marriages: 4
Jennifer Lopez has had four marriages. Her ex-husbands include Ojani Noa (1997 to 1998), Cris Judd (2001 to 2003), and Marc Anthony (2004 to 2014).
Jennifer Lopez
Currently, Lopez is married to her old flame, Ben Affleck. The couple tied the knot in 2022. Speaking about her relationship with Affleck, Lopez has said, "I feel so lucky and happy and proud to be with him. It's a beautiful love story that we got a second chance."
Nicolas Cage
Marriages: 5
Nicolas Cage has been married five times. His ex-wives include Patricia Arquette (1995 to 2001), Lisa Marie Presley (2002 to 2004), Alice Kim (2004 to 2016), and Erika Koike (in 2019). Though Cage and Koike eloped in Las Vegas, they divorced only four days later, followed by an annulment.
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Nicolas Cage
In 2021, Nicolas Cage said "I do" for the fifth time with Riko Shibata, who is 31 years younger than him. Together, they have a daughter named August. Speaking about his marriage, Cage has said, "I'm really happily married. I know five is a lot, but I think I got it right this time."
Gary Oldman
Marriages: 5
Gary Oldman is one of the best actors in Hollywood, and he's also been married a fair few times. His ex-wives include Lesley Manville (1987 to 1990), Uma Thurman (1990 to 1992), Donya Fiorentino (1997 to 2001), and Alexandra Edenborough (2008 to 2015).
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Gary Oldman
Most recently, Gary Oldman has tied the knot with writer Gisele Schmidt—and the two have been together since 2017.
Pamela Anderson
Marriages: 5
Though Pamela Anderson might be best known for her turbulent marriage to Tommy Lee (1995 to 1998), she married another four times. Her ex-husbands include Kid Rock (2006 to 2007) and Rick Salomon (2007 to 2008). However, Anderson surprisingly remarried Salomon many years later in 2014, but their marriage only lasted months.
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Pamela Anderson
Anderson's most recent marriage was to bodyguard Dan Hayhurst, but they divorced a year later.
During a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2023, Anderson revealed whether she'd ever marry again: "God, what a crazy question. I don't know, I hope so. I still have a lot of life to live."
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Martin Scorsese
Marriages: 5
Director Martin Scorsese has been married five times. His ex-wives include Laraine Marie Brennan (1965 to 1971), Julia Cameron (1975 to 1977), Isabella Rossellini (1979 to 1982), and Barbara De Fina (1985 to 1991).
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Martin Scorsese
Since 1999, the director has been happily married to Helen Morris, who he had daughter Francesca with. Scorsese has said, "You make a family with a person like Helen. She's someone I want to be with, she's a companion. I learn a great deal from her."
David Foster
Marriages: 5
The famous producer David Foster has been married five times. His ex-wives include B.J. Cook (1972 to 1981), Rebecca Dyer (1982 to 1986), Linda Thompson (1991 to 2005), and Yolanda Hadid (2011 to 2017).
David Foster
In 2019, Foster married singer and actress Katharine McPhee, who is 35 years younger than him. In 2024, he told People magazine, "[Marriage] is a moving target, as you probably know."
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Rita Hayworth
Marriages: 5
Rita Hayworth may have been one of the most magnetic stars, but she was notoriously unlucky in love. The actress married five times. Her ex-husbands included Orson Welles (1943 to 1947) and Prince Aly Khan (1949 to 1953).
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Rita Hayworth
Though Hayworth married Dick Haymes in 1953, they divorced just two years later for a shocking reason. Haymes got physical with Hayworth in public. He also took advantage of her and her finances. But he wasn't her last attempt at "happily ever after."
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Rita Hayworth
Hayworth's final marriage was to the producer James Hill, but they only lasted from 1958 to 1961. She never married again and passed away in 1987. Hayworth once said, "What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed."
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Joan Collins
Marriages: 5
Actress Joan Collins has been married five times. Her ex-husbands include Maxwell Reed (1952 to 1956), Anthony Newley (1963 to 1971), Ron Kass (1972 to 1983) and Peter Holm (1985 to 1987).
Joan Collins
Luckily for Collins, she eventually found the love of her life in Percy Gibson, who she married in 2002. Gibson is 32 years younger than Collins. Today, she is 91 and he is 59.
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Joan Collins
In her memoir The World According to Joan, Collins wrote, "I kissed a lot of frogs before I found my prince. For those women who are looking for a life partner, that old saying that men are like buses and 'if you wait long enough, the right one will come along' is true for a reason."
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Billy Bob Thornton
Marriages: 6
Billy Bob Thornton has been married six times. His ex-wives include Melissa Lee Gatlin (1978 to 1980), Toni Lawrence (1986 to 1988), Cynda William (1990 to 1992), Pietra Dawn Cherniak (1993 to 1997), and Angelina Jolie (2000-2003).
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Billy Bob Thornton
Today, Thornton is still married to his sixth wife, Connie Angland. After dating for 12 years, the couple married in 2014 and share a daughter named Bella.
Rue McClanahan
Marriages: 6
The Golden Girls actress Rue McClanahan has been married six times. In fact, she even wrote a memoir about her love life in 2008: First Five Husbands … and the Ones Who Got Away.
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Rue McClanahan
Rue McClanahan's ex-husbands include Tom Bish (1958 to 1959), Norman Hartweg (1959 to 1961), Peter DeMaio (1964 to 1971) Sam "Gussie" Fisher (1976 to 1979), and Tom Keel (1984 to 1985).
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Rue McClanahan
McClanahan's final husband was actor Morrow Wilson, who she married in 1997. He proved that the sixth time was the charm because the couple stayed together until McClanahan's passing in 2010.
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Richard Pryor
Marriages: 7
Comedian and actor Richard Pryor tied the knot seven times, though he married some of his wives twice. He married Patricia Price (1960 to 1961), Shelley Bonis (1967 to 1969), Deborah McGuire (1977 to 1978), and Jennifer Lee (1981 to 1982). Pryor married the actress Flynn Belain twice—from 1986 to 1987, as well as from 1990 to 1991.
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Richard Pryor
In 2001, Richard Pryor returned to his ex-wife Jennifer Lee and they remained together until he died in 2005.
Lee later spoke about her relationship with Pryor to People magazine: "I did return in the summer of '94, and we eventually remarried. [Richard] kept apologizing for some of the things that he'd done. He kept saying, 'Jennifer, I hurt you. I was horrible to you, and I can't tell you how sorry I am.' There you've got a man sick sitting in a wheelchair, shadow of his former self, dealing with his life and looking back, happy to deal with it. He came to terms with it, and so did I."
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Elizabeth Taylor
Marriages: 8
Elizabeth Taylor had eight weddings, but married seven men. Her ex-husbands include Conrad Hilton, Jr. (1950 to 1951), Michael Wilding (1952 to 1957), Mike Todd who died in a plane crash (1957 to 1958), and Eddie Fisher (1959 to 1964), who had previously been married to Taylor's good friend, Debbie Reynolds. However, her most notorious husband was definitely Richard Burton.
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Elizabeth Taylor
After divorcing Eddie Fisher, Taylor Married Richard Burton just 10 days later. Their marriage lasted until 1974... but it wasn't truly the end. The couple remarried the very next year in 1975, only to divorce again in 1976.
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Elizabeth Taylor
Taylor's final marriages were to John Warner (1976 to 1982), and Larry Fortensky (1991 to 1996). After her eighth marriage, the actress threw in the towel, staying unmarried until she died in 2011.
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Larry King
Marriages: 8
The famous radio and television host Larry King married eight times. In 2020, he shared with People magazine, "I got married a lot. In my head, I'm not a marrying guy. When I grew up, nobody lived together. If you fell in love, you got married. And so I married the ones that I loved. But what I loved at 20 is not what I loved at 30, and what I loved at 30 is not what I loved at 40."
Larry King
King's ex-wives include Freda Miller (1952 to 1953), Annette Kaye (in 1961), Alene Akins (1961 to 1963), and Mickey Stuphin (1963 to 1967). In 1968, King married Akins again, but they were never meant to go the distance, divorcing in 1972. He went on to marry Sharon Lepore (1976 to 1983) and Julie Alexander (1990 to 1992).
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Larry King
Larry King was married to Shawn Southwick since 1997, but just a few years before his death, he filed for divorce. The famous host passed in January 2021—and at the time, his divorce hadn't yet been finalized.
Mickey Rooney
Marriages: 8
Old Hollywood actor Mickey Rooney was married eight times—and some of them were downright scandalous. He once said, "Weddings? I've been to a lot of them."
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney's ex-wives include Ava Gardner (1942 to 1943), Betty Jane Phillips (1944 to 1949), Martha Vickers (1949 to 1951), and Elaine Mahnken (1952 to 1958). However, it was his fifth wife that threw a dark shadow over the actor's love life.
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney's fifth wife, Barbara Ann Thomason, met a tragic end after her lover murdered her in 1966. Weirder still, Rooney eventually married Thomason's best friend, Marge Lane. However, their marriage only lasted 100 days.
Mickey Rooney
In 1969, Rooney married Carolyn Hockett, but divorced her in 1975. Finally, the actor married Jan Chamberlin. It seemed like they'd make it to the end—but unfortunately, they separated just two years before he died. Allegedly, Rooney accused Chamberlin's son of elder abuse.
Lana Turner
Marriages: 8
Lana Turner has had some extremely dark relationships. Most famously, her daughter killed one of her boyfriends, Johnny Stompanato, in self-defense. However, Turner has also married eight times—and none of them stood the test of time.
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Lana Turner
Turner's first husband was Artie Shaw in 1939, but their marriage lasted just four months. Her second husband was an interesting situation. Though Turner married Joseph Stephen Crane in 1942, they wound up seeking an annulment a year later as Crane hadn't properly divorced his wife. But this wasn't the end of their story.
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Lana Turner
Turner and Crane married again the same year of their annulment because Turner had gotten pregnant. This didn't matter though, because the couple divorced the very next year.
Lana Turner
Turner followed this up with her marriages to Henry J. Topping (1948 to 1952), Lex Barker (1953 to 1957), Fred May (1960 to 1962), Robert Eaton (1965 to 1969), and Ronald Dante (1969 to 1972).
Following her divorce from her eighth husband, the actress never tried her hand at marriage again, passing away in 1995.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Marriages: 9
Of all the celebrities in history, Zsa Zsa Gabor is undoubtedly the queen of multiple marriages. She married a whopping nine times. Her ex-husbands include Burhan Asaf Belge (1935 to 1941), Conrad Hilton (1942 to 1947), George Sanders (1949 to 1954), Herbert Hutner (1962 to 1966), Joshua S. Cosden Jr. (1966 to 1967), Jack Ryan (1975 to 1976), Michael O'Hara (1976 to 1982), and Felipe de Alba (April 13, 1983, to April 14, 1983).
Zsa Zsa Gabor
After marrying Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt in 1986, Gabor didn't budge. She stayed with her ninth husband until she passed at the age of 99.
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