It feels like Elizabeth Taylor and Lana Turner were competing to collect every Village Person.
Christie Brinkley: Four
The model-turned-real-estate-investor was married to a French artist for eight years, then Billy Joel for nine, then a real-estate developer for about a year before having a two-year dalliance with an architect.
Joan Collins: Four
The British actress married an Irish actor at the age of 19, and divorced a few years later. She would then marry (and divorce) singer and actor Anthony Newley, the president of Apple Records and then finally Swedish singer Peter Holm.
Liza Minelli: Four
In the ‘70s, she divorced musician Peter Allen and director Jack Haley Jr., then divorced artist Mark Gero after 13 years, and most recently suffered a very public breakup with concert promoter David Gest in 2007.
Martin Scorsese: Four
He first married a fellow NYU student when he was still an undergrad in 1965, and divorced a few years later. He then worked his way up the entertainment food chain with writer Julia Cameron, actress Isabella Rossellini and producer Barbara De Fina. He’s been happily married since 1999.
Jerry Lee Lewis: Four (Almost Five)
He had seven wives, which included his 13-year-old cousin, but only four ended in divorce. One he remained married to until he died, another died of an overdose shortly after their marriage, and another died of accidental drowning shortly before their divorce could be finalized.
Danielle Steel: Five
The author married a banker at 18, and divorced him a few years later. She divorced her second husband when he was convicted of sexual assault, then rapidly married and divorced some guy, a wine merchant and venture capitalist.
Billy Bob Thornton: Five
He was divorced from his first wife due to “incompatibility and adultery on his part,” then from actress Toni Lawrence, actress Cynda Williams and Playboy model Pietra Dawn Cherniak. He eventually divorced Angelina Jolie after a few years of wearing each other’s blood and stuff.
Mickey Rooney: Six
He married almost entirely famous women in the ‘40s and ‘50s — actress Ava Gardner, singer Betty Jane Rase, actress Martha Vickers, actress Elaine Devry — before tragedy struck. Actress Barbara Ann Thomason, with whom he’d had four children, was killed by a stuntman in a murder-suicide. After that, he married and divorced two more normal people, and settled down with one last normie.
Robert Evans: Six (Almost Seven)
The prolific film producer has divorced two normal people, two actresses, a model and a socialite, his longest marriage lasting three years. He also married actress Catherine Oxenberg, but it was annulled after nine days.
Larry King: Six (Almost Five, and Almost Seven)
He married seven people, starting with his high school sweetheart at the age of 18, which was later annulled. He married a businesswoman after proposing to her on their first date, and he twice married and twice divorced Playboy Bunny Alene Akins.
Elizabeth Taylor: Seven
Over the course of 45 years, she divorced a Hilton, actor Michael Wilding, singer Eddie Fisher, actor Richard Burton (twice!), a politician and then finally a construction worker.
Lana Turner: Seven
The actress married bandleader Artie Shaw, a socialite, actor Lex Barker, a rancher and a nightclub performer. In the middle there, she twice divorced actor Joseph Stephen Crane — once when she found out he was still technically married to someone else, then again after they reconciled and briefly remarried. She said, “My goal was to have one husband and seven children, but it turned out to be the other way around.”
Zsa Zsa Gabor: Seven (Almost Eight)
The former Miss Hungary started off her divorce career with a Hungarian political writer before pivoting to the OG Hilton (the father of Elizabeth Taylor’s Hilton, as a matter of fact), actor George Sanders, an investment banker, some guy, the guy who designed Barbie and another guy. She almost married actor Felipe de Alba, but it was annulled after one day.
