A-list couples in Hollywood are not usually in long-term relationships for very long — and if they do end up tieing the knot, they usually split not long after. Some of Hollywood’s elite might only be married for a few hours before calling it quits.
That’s not to say there aren’t celebrity couples who have stood the test of time because there most certainly are, couples like David and Victoria Beckham who have been married for 20 years, Denzel Washington and wife Pauletta Pearson who have been married for 35, and Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson who have been married over 30 years show us that it is entirely possible for megastars to stay committed…
Yet when you’re in love and can shell out millions of dollars for a wedding without thinking twice, getting divorced weeks later might not seem like a thing because, well, when you said “I do” you wanted to get married — like when Kim Kardashian married Kris Humphries on KUWTK odds are she didn’t think she’d be filing for divorce 72 days later. You only live once, right?
So, from Britney Spears’ 55-hour marriage to Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Esposito’s short-lived matrimony, here are the shortest celebrity marriages you probably forgot about.
A version of this article was originally published in March 2020.
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Gerry Turner & Theresa Nist
Image Credit: JOHN FLEENOR / DISNEY via Getty Images The Golden Bachelor proved it’s never too late to find love but our hearts were broken when the show’s lead, Gerry Turner, split from his first pick, Theresa Nist, after 3 months of marriage.
The duo wed in January 2024 after meeting on the show the previous year.
“We just feel like it’s best for the happiness of each of us to live apart,” Turned said in a statement, “I still love this person. There’s no doubt in my mind.”
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Britney Spears & Sam Asghari
Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety/Penske Media via Getty Images After 14 months of marriage, Britney Spears and Sam Asghari split in 2023. Per DailyMail, Asghari has allegedly moved out of their shared home. Soon after the news broke, in August 16, Asghari filed for divorce. The pair started dating in 2016 and later got engaged in 2021.
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Nicolette Sheridan & Aaron Phypers
Image Credit: Christopher Polk for Variety, Roger Kisby for WWD Before he married Denise Richards in 2018, Aaron Phypers was briefly married to former Desperate Housewives star Nicolette Sheridan for six months in 2015.
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Chris Appleton & Lukas Gage
Image Credit: Gilbert Flores for WWD In April 2023, Kim Kardashian officiated her hairstylist Chris Appleton’s wedding to Euphoria star Lukas Gage after their whirlwind months-long romance.
However, their union didn’t last long and the couple filed for divorce after just six months.
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Colton Haynes & Jeff Leatham
Image Credit: Chelsea Lauren/Variety/Penske Media via Getty Images The so-called Kardashian curse might extend to marriages they officiate too because before Kim married Appleton and Gage, her mom played a hand in the wedding ceremony of another short-lived couple.
Actor Colton Haynes married Kardashian florist Jeff Leatham six months before Haynes filed for divorce in May 2018.
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Pamela Anderson & Dan Hayhurst
Image Credit: Gilbert Flores for WWD Pamela Anderson has been continuously unlucky in love. The actress wed her bodyguard, sometime in 2020 before splitting after a year of marriage. This was Anderson’s fifth marriage.
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Sophia Bush & Grant Hughes
Image Credit: Jerod Harris/FilmMagic Sophia Bush and her husband Grant Hughes announced their divorce after just 13 months of marriage in August 2023, People reports. “Sophia and Grant were friends for 10 years and bonded during COVID through their love of community service,” a source told the outlet. “They continue to run their nonprofit together and remain good friends.”
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Kim Kardashian & Kris Humphries
Image Credit: Denise Truscello/WireImage via Getty Images After a six-month courtship, Kim Kardashian married NBA player Kris Humphries in a 2011 wedding that cost millions of dollars. Their relationship, proposal and wedding were documented on Keeping Up with the Kardashians, of course.
Kardashian filed for divorce 72 days later. But Humphries didn’t let her off the hook that easy, and their divorce process lasted far longer than their marriage. Kim was actually pregnant with her first child with Kanye West when the divorce was finalized.
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Jennifer Lopez & Cris Judd
Image Credit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc. via Getty Images In 2002, right after Jennifer Lopez broke off her three-year relationship with P. Diddy, Lopez married her backup dancer, Cris Judd. Her second quickie marriage (more on that later!)
The marriage lasted only four months. J.Lo was engaged to Ben Affleck later that year.
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Bradley Cooper & Jennifer Esposito
Image Credit: Jason Merritt/FilmMagic via Getty Images Pre Hangover fame, Bradley Cooper was married to fellow actress Jennifer Esposito. The pair lasted only four months, with Esposito filing for divorce. Cooper then moved onto Renée Zellweger whom he dated for six years and later welcomed a baby with his now-ex Irina Shayk.
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Jennifer Lopez & Ojani Noa
Image Credit: Donato Sardella/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images Before there was Ben Affleck, Marc Anthony, or even Cris Judd, there was Ojani Noa, a waiter at Gloria Estefan’s restaurant and J.Lo’s first husband, who she married in Feb. 1997.
After 313 days, they went their separate ways — and his threats to expose sex tapes of her in the years since suggest it wasn’t pretty.
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Britney Spears & Jason Alexander
Image Credit: Enos Solomon/FilmMagic, Michael Buckner/Variety During a very wild weekend in 2004, Britney Spears married childhood friend Jason Alexander at A Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas.
Fifty-five hours later, the marriage was annulled, with paperwork citing Britney “lacked understanding of her actions to the extent that she was incapable of agreeing to the marriage.”
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Lisa Marie Presley & Nicholas Cage
Image Credit: Gregg DeGuire/WireImage via Getty Images Nicholas Cage, a self-proclaimed Elvis Presley fanatic, married the King’s daughter, Lisa Marie, in 2002. The marriage lasted only 108 days before Presley filed for divorce.
For the record, her marriage to Michael Jackson even outlasted this one — a whole 9 months.
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Elisabeth Moss & Fred Armisen
Image Credit: Donato Sardella/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images The Handmaid’s Tale actress and SNL star married in 2009 after a year of dating but after 8 months called it quits.
Moss has not held back when it comes to criticizing her relationship with Armisen, telling Page Six in 2012, “One of the greatest things I heard someone say about him is, ‘He’s so great at doing impersonations. But the greatest impersonation he does is that of a normal person.’ To me, that sums it up.”
In another interview with Vulture that year, she described the romance as “extremely traumatic and awful and horrible.”
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Mario Lopez & Ali Landry
Image Credit: Gregg DeGuire/WireImage via Getty Images Back in 2004, Mario Lopez and Ali Landry said their “I do’s” only to call it off two weeks later when she discovered that the reports she’d been hearing of his rampant cheating up to her wedding and after had been through — by finally agreeing to tap his phone with her sister.
Luckily, it was short enough that they were able to get it annulled.
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Renée Zellweger & Kenny Chesney
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Eddie Murphy & Tracey Edmonds
Image Credit: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic via Getty Images Eddie Murphy married Babyface’s ex-wife in Bora Bora after a year of dating on New Year’s Eve in 2008.
The couple apparently had a change of heart just two weeks later and decided not to make their marriage legal in the U.S. The split was said to be amicable.
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Drew Barrymore & Tom Green
Image Credit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc. via Getty Images An odd pair, Drew Barrymore and comedian Tom Green often teased fans with their upcoming wedding back in 2001, even hinting it would happen on Saturday Night Live. The couple of one year did get married in a private ceremony, but were divorced just five months later.
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Janet Jackson & James DeBarge
Image Credit: Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Janet Jackson made headlines back in 1984 after eloping with James DeBarge when she was just 18 years old. The marriage was annulled the following year.
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Shannen Doherty & Ashley Hamilton
Image Credit: Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images After knowing each other for only two weeks, Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty married George Hamilton’s son, Ashley. At the time, Shannen Doherty was 22 years old, while Hamilton was just 19. Doherty filed for divorce 5 months later.
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Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth
Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth’s on-off love story began in 2010, 2 years before their first engagement.
After a three-year break between 2013 and 2016, it seemed like the pair finally found their happily ever after when they tied the knot in December 2018. However, they split for good just 8 months later.
“What really sucked about it wasn’t the fact that me and someone that I loved realized that we don’t love each other the way that we used to anymore,” Cyrus said of their high-profile divorce in 2020. “That’s okay. I can accept that. I can’t accept the villainizing and just all those stories.”
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Colin Farrell & Amelia Warner
Image Credit: Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Jamie Dornan’s now-wife, Amelia Warner, was at one time Colin Farrell’s wife… sort of. Back in 2001, Warner and Farrell were married after dating for a year, but called it quits four months later.
Warner later revealed the marriage wasn’t actually legally-binding: “We had a ceremony on a beach in Tahiti that was by no means legal and we knew it wasn’t… It was just a thing we did on holiday.”
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Dennis Rodman & Carmen Electra
Image Credit: David Keeler/Online USA, Inc. via Getty Images Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman were married at the Little Chapel of the Flowers in Las Vegas after eight months of dating.
Six days later, Rodman filed for an annulment claiming he was inebriated. He retracted his filing, and the couple attempted to make the mistake marriage work for six months before Electra filed for divorce.
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Sophia Bush & Chad Michael Murray
Image Credit: Jim Spellman/WireImage via Getty Images Teen hearts shattered when One Tree Hill sweethearts Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray split 5 months after their 2005 wedding amid reports that Murray was unfaithful.
The two continued working together on that show, sometimes sharing romantic scenes, until 2009.
In a 2022 episode of her podcast, Bush discussed how she managed to keep her composure while working with her ex.
“People can call it whatever they want. They can say it’s strength, they can say it’s pride, they can say its professionalism — you can put a positive or a negative skew on it,” she said. “But I was always going to put Brooke Davis ahead of everybody and everything else. Nothing mattered to me but being honest for her.”
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Pamela Anderson & Kid Rock
Image Credit: Steve Eichner/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images Even getting married three times doesn’t mean it’ll last. Case in point: Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock.
The couple was first married on a yacht in St. Tropez on July 29, 2006. They then made it official at a Beverly Hills courthouse a few days later on August 3 and had their third wedding on stage on August 17 in Nashville. They both filed for divorce just four months later.
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Amber Heard & Johnny Depp
Image Credit: Chelsea Lauren Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s tumultuous marriage lasted just 15 months before it ended with Heard accusing the actor of physical abuse, which he denies.
Heard and Depp began dating in 2012 and married in February 2015. She filed for divorce in May 2016.
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Luann de Lesseps & Tom D’Agostino Jr.
Image Credit: Clint Spaulding/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images After beginning their relationship in 2015, Real Housewives of New York City star Luann de Lesseps married Tom D’Agostino Jr. on New Year’s Eve in 2016. Cheating rumors plagued their romance but they still managed to make it down the aisle.
However, it wasn’t meant to last and the couple announced their divorce just seven months later on August 4.
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