Darva Conger
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Darva Conger (born 21 September 1966) was an emergency room nurse who was selected as the winner on a 2000 reality television show Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?.
In the show, which aired as a single 2-hour broadcast, 50 women competed to be the bride of a unknown millionaire whom they did not see during the show except in silhouette. At the end of the show on February 15, 2000, millionaire Rick Rockwell chose Conger to be his wife and married her on the spot. In addition to being wed to a multi-millionaire, she also won a three carat (600 mg) diamond ring and more than US$100,000 in prizes. After the honeymoon it was announced that Conger was seeking an annulment because she says Rockwell had misrepresented himself. The annulment was finalized on April 5. Conger was the focus of media attention for not only winning the "contest" but also for getting an annulment so quickly after the marriage.
After the show aired, Conger made numerous public comments[citation needed]about how she was offended by Rockwell's forcibly kissing her on stage, that they never consummated their marriage, and how the entire episode went against her set of morals. She posed nude for Playboy magazine in the August 2000 issue.
She has since remarried to Jim Arellano, and currently lives with her mother, former actress Susan Harrison in Thousand Oaks, California.
She was impersonated on Saturday Night Live by Ana Gasteyer.
