Shortest Celebrity Marriages You Probably Forgot About

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.

Britney Spears & Sam Asghari

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After 14 months of marriage, Britney Spears and Sam Asghari have split. 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.
Sophia Bush & Grant Hughes

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Sophia Bush and her husband Grant Hughes announced their divorce after just 13 months of marriage, 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.”
Pamela Anderson & Dan Hayhurst

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After just one year of marriage, Pamela Anderson and Dan Hayhurst decided to go their separate ways, according to Rolling Stone. The Baywatch alum and bodyguard wed sometime in 2021 in Canada amid the ongoing pandemic. This was Anderson’s fifth marriage.
Kim Kardashian & Kris Humphries

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After a six-month courtship, Kim Kardashian married NBA player Kris Humphries in a 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.
Jennifer Lopez & Cris Judd

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In 2002, right after Jennifer Lopez broke off her three-year relationship with P. Diddy and long before she had married Marc Anthony, Lopez married her backup dancer, Cris Judd. The marriage lasted only four months. J.Lo was engaged to Ben Affleck later that year.
Bradley Cooper & Jennifer Esposito

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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 — he most recently was married to Irina Shayk.
Jennifer Lopez & Ojani Noa

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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.
Britney Spears & Jason Alexander

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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.”
Lisa Marie Presley & Nicholas Cage

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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.
Elisabeth Moss & Fred Armisen

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The Handmaid’s Tale actress and SNL star married in 2009 but after 8 months called it quits.
Mario Lopez & Ali Landry

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‘Member this? 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.
Renée Zellweger & Kenny Chesney

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Renée Zellweger surprised everyone when she married country singer Kenny Chesney after just four months of dating back in 2005. She filed for an annulment just four months later, citing fraud.
Eddie Murphy & Tracey Edmonds

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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.
Drew Barrymore & Tom Green

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An odd pair, Drew Barrymore and 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.
Janet Jackson & James DeBarge

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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. It’s been highly speculated that the two had a secret love child named Renée, who was subsequently raised by Jackson’s older sister, Rebbie. Renée is 18 years old now.
Shannen Doherty & Ashley Hamilton

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After knowing each other for only two weeks, the Beverly Hills 90210 star 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.
Colin Farrell & Amelia Warner

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Jamie Dornan’s 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, telling The Sun, “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.”
Dennis Rodman & Carmen Electra

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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.
Sophia Bush & Chad Michael Murray

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The One Tree Hill sweethearts were married in 2005 and filed for divorce just 5 months later amid reports that Murray was unfaithful. Talk about awkward: The two continued working together on that show, sometimes sharing romantic scenes, until 2009.
Pamela Anderson & Kid Rock

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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.
Amber Heard & Johnny Depp

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In what started as a beautiful love story turned pretty dark for these two superstars who were married for only 15 months.
Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth

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These on-and-off again lovers married in 2018 but 8 months called it off.
Luann de Lesseps & Tom D’Agostino Jr.

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Real Housewives of New York City star Luann de Lesseps married Tom D’Agostino Jr. on New Year’s Eve in 2016, announcing their divorce just seven months later on August 4. While their engagement had been plagued with cheating rumors, many of which made their way to her reality show, it wasn’t until married life that Luann decided enough was enough.