Hi, everybody! It’s Samantha! From the celebrities that remained friends after just a few months
married to bitter breakups in days, these are the Shortest Celebrity Marriages.
Which celebrity had the shortest marriage? Which couples remain friends despite a short
time together? Find out as we discuss the Shortest Celebrity Marriages.
#13 Wiz Khalifa/Amber Rose (443 days) Many of the failed marriages to make this
list ended with at least one if not both parties with feelings of contempt. In the case of
Amber Rose and Wiz Khalifa, though, they’ve shown nothing but love for one another, despite
divorcing in 2014. The pair were engaged in March of 2012, but weren’t wed until July
2013. By September of the following year, Rose filed for divorce and referenced irreconcilable
differences as the reason. Since the split, Khalifa and Rose have appeared on each others
Instagram accounts, were photographed partying at a mutual friend’s house, and have spoken
well of each other to the media, even though both have moved onto new romantic partners.
#12 Katy Perry/Russell Brand (433 days) Initially meeting at the filming of Get Him
to the Greek in 2009, pop star Katy Perry and actor/comedian Russell Brand hit it off
later that year at the MTV Video Music Awards. After just four months of dating, the pair
got engaged while vacationing in India. They returned the following October for their marriage
ceremony, taking part in traditional Hindu rituals to celebrate the union. A little over
a year together proved to be too much for Brand, though, and filed for divorce on December
30, 2011. Perry said in interviews that the breakup was due to conflicting schedules and
Brand’s want for children, along with not liking her “being the boss” in the relationship.
Brand has somewhat backed these claims, stating that while he was “really in love with her”,
their inability to spend time together consistently drove them apart. Perry told Vogue that the
last time they spoke was via text message when Brand informed her he was filing for
divorce. Nevertheless, there seems to be no ill will between the exes as Brand declined
half of nearly 44 million dollars after their split given the couple never signed a prenuptial
agreement. #11 Elisabeth Moss/Fred Armisen (330 days)
It’s easy to fall for someone that makes you laugh. Mad Men star Elisabeth Moss found
this out firsthand when she married perennial Saturday Night Live cast member Fred Armisen.
After knowing each other for just a year, the two rushed into marriage in October of
2009. This union would turn out to be no laughing matter though, as the pair were separated
by June of the following year, with Moss filing for divorce in September 2010. Moss would
go on to call her marriage with Armisen “extremely traumatic and awful and horrible.” She has
said that Armisen would pretend to be a “normal person”, an issue he himself attributes
to intimacy issues. In various interviews, he expressed a fascination with the fantasy
of a married life, especially to a Mad Men actress and his acceptance into that circle
of performers. By Armisen’s own admittance, he apparently struggles with separating the
larger than life characters or performers from the person playing those roles, leading
to phases of intense infatuation followed by panic when reality sets in.
#10 Jeremy Renner/Sonni Pacheco (321 days) Not all marriages work out, and some provide
nothing but negative memories and despair. But when you’re a father like Jeremy Renner,
even a failed marriage can’t be a failure given his adoration for his daughter Ava Berlin.
Born just three months after his marriage to Canadian model and actress Sonni Pacheco,
Renner has professed in interviews that views his daughter as his current main focus in
life, regarding anything else, including filming movies, as a distraction. Unfortunately, these
feelings don’t extend to his now ex-wife, who split with Renner after being married
just 10 months. According to unnamed sources, the two rarely got along with Renner hoping
to make it work for the sake of their child. Things turned messy though when the divorce
entered the discussion, with Pacheco initially demanding an invalidation of their prenup
and sole custody of Ava. Eventually, Renner was able to win split custody, and he is currently
able to spend much of his time being an attendant father.
#9 Aaliyah/R. Kelly (181 days) As the late songstress Aaliyah made her rise
up the R&B and pop charts in the mid-1990s, she maintained close guidance from her mentor
R. Kelly. But in 1994, this student-teacher relationship took a romantic turn when the
pair wed in August of 1994. To make matters more complicated, Aaliyah had obtained falsified
documents stating her as 18 years of age from Kelly’s tour manager. In reality, she was
just 15. R. Kelly was 27. The marriage occurred without her parents permission and by February
of the next year, after Vibe magazine had broken the news, Aaliyah’s parents had the
illegal marriage annulled. Perhaps the biggest hint towards this forbidden engagement came
in the name of Aaliyah’s first album, which she recorded with Kelly, titled “Age Ain’t
Nothing but a Number.” After having records of this marriage expunged, Aaliyah went on
to cut off all ties with Kelly, even refusing to discuss him in interviews after their split.
#8 Drew Barrymore/Tom Green (163 days) Since the age of 16, actress Drew Barrymore
has had a streak of bad luck when it comes to marriages. Originally engaged to Leland
Hayward, grandson of the famed Hollywood producer of the same name, this engagement only lasted
a few months. The following year, she was engaged to actor and musician Jamie Walters
until 1993, during which time they shared a residence. Then in 1994, she married Jeremy
Thomas, an L.A. bar owner, for a measly two months before calling it quits. She then steered
clear of wedding bells until 1999 when she thought she had met the funny man of her dreams
in Tom Green. The MTV star and rising comedian engaged Barrymore in 2000, eventually being
wed on July 7, 2001. By that December though, Green was ready to call it quits, filing for
divorce just 163 days after their wedding. Green has said they haven’t talked in years,
however the two mutually speak well of each other when the subject of their short-lived
marriage comes up. #7 Renee Zellweger/Kenny Chesney (128 days)
Celebrity philanthropy can provide a light in the darkness for regular people, with the
stars of pop culture providing resources that would normally require communities to raise
millions of dollars to afford. But for country musician Kenny Chesney and actress Renee Zellweger,
philanthropy brought more than support to tsunami survivors...it brought them together
in love. After meeting at NBC’s tsunami relief telethon in 2005, the two began seeing
each other before getting married that May on the Island of St. John. Within four months,
though, Chesney and Zellweger decided to have their marriage annulled, with Zellweger sighting
“fraud” as the qualifying reason. Media outlets clasped onto this terminology and
after widespread scrutiny, Zellweger clarified that the term was simply legal jargon and
in no way reflected Chesney’s character. In later interviews, Chesney would blame himself,
stating that he had panicked and saying “The only fraud that was committed was me thinking
that I knew what it was like...that I really understood what it was like to be married,
and I really didn’t” #6 Bradley Cooper/Jennifer Esposito (122 days)
Long before starring as an American hero, a hungover playboy, or a CGI raccoon, Bradley
Cooper married actress Jennifer Esposito back in December 2006. Their marriage only lasted
122 days, with Esposito filing for divorce in May of the following year. Cooper told
magazines that their break was a mutual decision, saying that the marriage “just wasn’t
right” and that it was something both had realized. But in her tell-all book Jennifer’s
Way, published in 2014, Esposito wrote of an unnamed beau that was “arrogant, and
a master manipulator” capable of revealing a “mean, cold side” and a mood that “could
flip on a dime.” After writing about the events that led to her split with this mystery
man, she detailed moving on to a sitcom with Christina Applegate that aired in 2007. Given
this timeline, it’s easy to trace her description as being a thinly-veiled account of her time
with Cooper, but this conclusion has never been directly confirmed by either party.
#5 Pamela Anderson/Kid Rock (122 days) Nineties starlet Pamela Anderson experienced
her share of romantic rough times during the height of her popularity. Marrying Tommy Lee
of Motley Crue fame just 4 days after meeting him proved to be a premature decision when
she divorced him just 3 years later. Musician Kid Rock had endured his own love life trials
and tribulations after having a child with his on again-off again grade school sweetheart,
whom he broke up with after finding out one of the children he was raising with her wasn’t
his. The two began dating in 2001, and were engaged within a year, but broke up by 2003.
Then, three years later, the marriage was abruptly announced to be back on with a ceremony
commencing on July 29, 2006 aboard a yacht near the west coast of France. Just four months
later, she filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences, just a couple weeks after Anderson
had suffered a miscarriage during the filming of a new movie. Some media coverage speculated
the split to be due to anger felt by Kid Rock after seeing Anderson’s cameo role in a
screening of the film Borat. But Kid Rock later claimed that their divorce arose from
her supposed tendency to openly criticize his mother and sister in front of his son.
#4 Lisa Marie Presley/ Nic Cage (108 days) Not everyone gets to meet their idol, but
if you’re lucky, you might get to marry their daughter! Such was the case for actor
Nicolas Cage when he wed Lisa Marie Presley in August of 2002. Both had withstood prior
failed marriages at the time, with Cage having married his first wife Patricia Arquette in
1995 and Presley’s past husbands including bassist Danny Keough and the King of Pop Michael
Jackson. She was even engaged to a third suitor, rock musician John Oszajca, when she first
met Cage at a party...an encounter that would lead to her calling off her previous engagement.
But after less than four months, the newlywed put a kibosh on their relationship with Cage
filing for divorce in November of the same year. The court proceedings that followed
lasted over a year and half, ending in May of 2004. In all, the process to divorce lasted
almost five times the length of their marriage. #3 Kim Kardashian/Kris Humphries (72 days)
Now known as half of the notorious celebrity couple of KimYe, Kim Kardashian wasn’t always
married to the polarizing personality of Kanye West. Before she met the producer-rapper-designer
extraordinaire, Kardashian had already married twice previously. And her second marriage
barely lasted longer than two months! After dating Kris Humphries, power forward for the
New Jersey Nets at the time, for just eight months, the two were married in August of
2011. The ceremony was broadcast across a two-part TV special for the E! Network. In
addition, Kardashian launched a new perfume earlier that month called Love by Kim Kardashian,
meant to embody a “wedding fragrance”. So when she filed for divorce just 72 days
later in October, given the high profile promotion for the event, rumors swirled of the engagement
being little more than publicity stunt for the Kardashian clan. Media attention towards
the break up eventually settled down after Kim filed suit against a man claiming to be
a former publicist, forcing him to reverse claims of the wedding having shallow intentions.
#2 Carmen Electra/Dennis Rodman (9 days) Amid a tumultuous time in Carmen Electra’s
life, the actress and model married her boyfriend at the time — Dennis Rodman, NBA superstar.
Having recently lost her mother to brain cancer and her older sister to a heart attack, the
pair were finding solace in Las Vegas in November of 1998. After a long night of partying, Electra
and Rodman wed at the Little Chapel of Flowers after dating for about eight months. But just
nine days later, Rodman had already filed for annulment, attributing his supposed lack
of judgement to “fraud” and an “unsound mind” during the ceremony. The pair made
up by New Year’s Eve though and Rodman retracted his annulment. But they would only go on to
last a few months, officially agreeing to divorce in April of the following year. Electra
has stated in an interview with Glamour that this marriage was an emotional response to
her despair at the time, hoping to cope with her loss by clinging to her beau.
#1 Britney Spears/Jason Alexander (55 hours) Pop music icon Britney Spears is known for
playing on her innocence to create subliminally seductive hit singles, as seen in the popular
music video for “...Baby One More Time.” But her true naivete showed in January of
2004 when she married her childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander in a spur-of-the-moment
ceremony at Las Vegas’s A Little White Wedding Chapel. Within 55 hours, the marriage was
annulled under the argument that Britney “lacked understanding of her actions.” Six months
later, Spears infamously married again, this time to her backup dancer Kevin Federline.
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