User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )/Marriages

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This is a list of people notable for four or more marriages. This list is for cases where a person is noted for their serial marriages, and not their polygamy. The list is sorted by number of marriages.

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Rank Name Marriages Notes
1 Glynn Wolfe 29 He holds the record for serial marriages. His final marriage was to Linda Essex. [1]
2 Linda Essex 23 Was once married to Glynn Wolfe.
3 Mohammed bin Laden 22 Father of Osama bin Laden. He had a total of 55 children.
4 Wook Kundor 21 At age 104 she married Muhamad Noor Che Musa who was 33 in 2006. He is husband number 21. If her age was confirmed the age difference would be 71 years. [1]
5 Baseri 12 She is one of Iran's most successful jewellers.[citation needed]
6 Bonnie Lee Bakley 10 Her most notable marriage was to actor Robert Blake, who was acquitted of her 2001 murder, which occurred outside of a restaurant in California.
7 Zsa Zsa Gabor 9 Her shortest marriage was one day, she has currently been married since 1986 (21 years), by far her longest marriage.
8 Alan Jay Lerner 8 He is a broadway lyricist.
Mickey Rooney 8 The shortest was for 100 days and the longest was over 22 years.
Elizabeth Taylor 8 Married twice to Richard Burton. The shortest was for 8 months and the longest was for 10 years.
Artie Shaw 8 He is a composer and writer (deceased). He had two children. Among his wives were Ava Gardner, Evelyn Keyes, Kathleen Winsor and Lana Turner.
Lana Turner 8 A deceased actress. She was married twice to Stephen Crane.
Stephen Crane 8 (b. Joseph Steven Crane III), Married twice to Lana Turner and Helen DeMaree.
13 Robert Evans 7 Married to Sharon Hugueny, Camilla Sparv, Ali MacGraw, Phyllis George, Catherine Oxenberg, and Lesley Ann Warren, and Lady Victoria White in Mexico on August 2005. He has one son from his marriage to MacGraw.
Larry King 7 The shortest marriage was less than 1 year and the longest was 7 years. Two marriages were to the same former Playboy Bunny. He has also had two broken engagements.
Stan Laurel 7
Martha Raye 7 The shortest marriage was less than a year and the longest was 11 years. She married Mark Harris who was 32 years younger after knowing him for three weeks.
17 Jerry Lee Lewis 6 Married Dorothy Barton; He married Jane Mitcham, his second wife, 23 days before his divorce from his first wife, was final. On December 12, 1957, Jerry married his second cousin, Myra Gale Brown and divorced in 1970; in 2004 he divorced his sixth wife, Kerrie McCarver.
Henry VIII of England 6 His wives were respectively divorced (Catherine of Aragon), beheaded (Anne Boleyn), died (Jane Seymour), divorced (Anne of Cleves), beheaded (Catherine Howard), outlived her husband (Catherine Parr).
Raymond VI of Toulouse 6 His first wife was Ermessinde, countess of Melgueil (died 1176). His second wife was Beatrix of Béziers (repudiated 1193, one child). His third wife was Bourgogne de Lusignan (repudiated 1196). His fourth wife was Joan, sister of King Richard the Lionhearted of England (died 1199, two children). His fifth wife was a Cypriot princess (divorced 1202). His sixth wife was Leonor, daughter of the king of Aragon, who survived him.
Rex Harrison 6 Stage and screen actor
Arlene Dahl 6 Screen actress
John Wodehouse, 4th Earl of Kimberley 6
Greg Allman 6 Singer, songwriter, guitarist. Founding member of the Allman Brothers Band. He has been married at least six times, most famously to singer Cher.
Fred "Rerun" Berry 6 Married six times to four different women.
John Singleton 6
Tony Curtis 6 Father of Jamie Lee Curtis.

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  • Christie Brinkley, supermodel, to Jean-François Allaux, Billy Joel, Richard Taubman, and Peter Cook.
  • Peter Sellers, late actor, married to Anne Howe (1951-1961), Britt Ekland (1964-1968), Miranda Quarry (1970-1974) and Lynne Frederick (1977-his death in 1980).
  • Frank Sinatra, late famous American singer. Married to Nancy Barbato (1939-1951), Ava Gardner (1951-1957), Mia Farrow (1966-1968) and to Barbara Marx (1976-his death in 1998).
  • Chevy Chase, American actor. Married previously to Susan Hewitt, second marriage unknown, third marriage to Jacqueline Carlin (1976-1980) and currently to Jaynie Luke (since 1982).
  • Charlie Chaplin, actor/director/writer, to Mildred Harris, Lita Grey, Paulette Goddard, and Oona O'Neill.
  • James Brown, deceased American singer, song writer, entertainer and "Godfather of Soul Music". He has been married to Velma Warren (1954-1969), Deidre Jenkins (1971-1981), Adrienne Rodriguez (1984-1986) and Tommy Rae Brown (2002-his death). His first two marriages ended in divorce, his third ended in his wife's death and his fourth marriage ended in an annulment, but they've remarried since.
  • Bernie Taupin, lyricist. His marriages have been to Maxine Feibelman (divorced), Toni Lynn Russo (divorced), Stephanie Haymes (divorced) and Heather Lynn Hodgins Kidd (present).
  • Muhammad Ali, retired American boxer. He has been married to four women and has seven daughters and two sons (one son is adopted, two daughters are from extramarital relationships). He has married Sonji Roi (1964-1966), Khalilah 'Belinda' Ali (1967-1977), Veronica Porche Ali (1977-1986) and Yolanda Williams (1986-present).
  • Liza Minnelli, actress, to Peter Allen, Jack Haley Jr., Mark Gero, and David Gest.
  • Lisa Marie Presley, singer, to Danny Keough, Michael Jackson, Nicolas Cage, and Michael Lockwood.
  • John De Lorean, Automotive innovator. The founder of the De Lorean Motor Company, he was on his fourth marriage to Sally DeLorean at the time of his death and was previously married to Cristina Ferrare, Kelly Harmon and Elizabeth Higgins.
  • Geena Davis, actress has been married to four men including her current marriage to Iranian-American, Dr. Reza Jarrahy.
  • Charles Vidor, director (deceased). He married four times to Doris Warner Vidor, (Frances), Karen Morley and Evelyn Keyes.
  • Martien Carol, actress and sex icon.
  • Cynthia Lennon, best known for her first marriage to John Lennon. Her other three marriages have been to Roberto Bassanini, John Twist and (presently) Noel Charles.
  • Yoko Ono, Japanese artist and musician. Married four times, once to Toshi Ichiyanagi, twice to Anthony Cox and then most famously to John Lennon.
  • Peter Jennings, ABC World News Tonight anchor and journalist (deceased). He had been married to Valerie Godsoe (1960s), Annie Malouf (1970s). From 1979 to 1993, he was married to author Kati Marton, with whom he had two children. He was survived by his fourth wife, Kayce Freed. They married in 1997.
  • Sonny Bono, deceased singer and politician, most famously to Cher.
  • George Sanders, actor. Second and fourth marriages was to two of the three Gabor sisters, Magda and Zsa Zsa.
  • William Shatner, actor
  • Ethel Merman, stage and film musical actor. Married and divorced four times to William Smith, Robert Levitt, Robert Six and Ernest Borgnine.
  • Derryn Hinch, Australian media personality. Married four times, twice to Jackie Weaver.
  • Barry Humphries, Australian comedian, satirist and character actor. Has two daughters and two sons to second and third wives Rosalind Tong and Diane Millstead. Currently married for fourth time to Lizzie Spender.
  • Dudley Moore, deceased British comedian, actor and musician. He married and divorced from Suzy Kendall, Tuesday Weld, Brogan Lane and Nicole Rothschild.
  • Stockard Channing, American actress. Married and divorced from Walter Channing (she kept his surname), Paul Schmidt, David Debin and David Rawle. She has been in a relationship with Daniel Gillham since 1988.

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  1. ^ "75, He Takes a 26th Wife.", New York Times, January 30, 1984. Retrieved on 2007-09-25. "Glynn Scotty Wolfe, who is 75, married for the 26th time Saturday at a wedding chapel on the Las Vegas Strip. Wearing a black tuxedo and an ear-to-ear smile, Mr. Wolfe walked out of the chapel with his bride, 38-year-old Christine Camacho, the oldest of his brides."