What were the quickest celebrity divorces?

Answer 1

Celebrities have a higher divorce rate than the general population, possibly because it's easier to get married when you’re rich—and easier to call off the marriage when things don't work out. Here's a look at a few of the most famous cases of quick celebrity divorces. For the purposes of this list, we're including annulments (mainly because those stories tend to be the best).

• Britney Spears and Jason Alexander - No, not the Jason Alexander from Seinfeld. Alexander and Spears were childhood friends in Kentwood, Louisiana, and they began a brief relationship on Jan. 1, 2004. In the early hours of Jan. 3, they married in Las Vegas.
  "She just came out and asked me," Alexander told ABC of the impromptu wedding. "She was like, 'Well, let's get married.' And I was like, 'Sure. You know, let's do this.'"
  55 hours later, the couple had their union annulled.
  "Everyone went crazy because there was no prenup," Alexander said. He reportedly agreed to the annulment in hopes of starting up a longer relationship with Spears, but she apparently felt differently.


• Nicolas Cage and Erika Koike - Cage and Koike married on March 23, 2019. They had been dating since April 2018—but they split up just four days after saying their vows.
  "There was a recent breakup," Cage told The New York Times. "I don’t really want to talk about it. I was pretty upset about that and the way things happened."
  Cage has been married three other times, including a two-year marriage with Lisa Marie Presley from 2002–2004.
• Drew Barrymore and Tom Green - Talk show host Tom Green made his reputation with crazy stunts, so when he announced his engagement to Drew Barrymore in 2001, many fans assumed it was some type of joke. That wasn't the case, although the couple divorced nine months after their wedding.
  "It was just a very short period of time that I had a brief marriage," Green said. "I don’t really tend to talk about it that much comfortably [or] publicly. All of that was part of that sort of crazy, whirlwind of a time."
• Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson - Rock and Anderson broke up nine months after their wedding. Apparently, the final straw was Anderson’s appearance in Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat.
  "Kid Rock saw the movie," Baron Cohen explained. "I texted Pamela Anderson. I said, 'How'd it go? What'd you think?' And she texted back, 'He's getting divorced.' I go, 'Why?' She goes, 'The movie.' And I thought it was a joke, but a few weeks later they got divorced and they put for the reason for the divorce: Borat."
  "So, it had some casualties. I thought they were a fantastic couple. It's a shame."
• Mario Lopez and Ali Landry - While Lopez and Landry had dated for a while, their marriage only lasted two weeks, allegedly due to Lopez's infidelity. Well, okay, not allegedly; Lopez admitted it to radio host Howard Stern.
  "It was my bachelor party," he said. "...It was spring break. Everybody was hanging out. That was a situation where I was not mature and man enough."
• Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries - Kardashian and Humphries were married in 2011 as only Kardashians can be—in a lavish, $10 million ceremony broadcast to the world in a two-part TV special. In spite of the opulence, their marriage only lasted 72 days. Humphries said that his career suffered when the separation was finalized.
  "I was playing at Madison Square Garden for the first time after my marriage ended, and I was getting booed so loud that it was crazy," he wrote for The Players’ Tribune. "I’m talking feel-it-in-your-bones booed. I wasn’t Kris Humphries any more. I wasn’t a real person. I was That Guy."
• Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman - After dating for several months, Rodman and Electra married in Las Vegas on Nov. 14, 1998. Nine days later, they decided to annul the marriage, but they changed their minds; the couple stayed married for about nine months before officially filing for divorce.
  "It’s important to think out marriage in general because it's a huge commitment," Electra said later. "Besides that, I hate to say it, but it's a lot of paperwork and a lot of emotions. It can be difficult."
• Jennifer Lopez and Cris Judd - Judd, a dancer-choreographer, met Lopez on the set of her "Love Don’t Cost a Thing" video in 2001. They married on Sept. 29, 2001, but they split up in June 2002, officially divorcing the next year.
  Judd told Us Weekly that he wasn’t cut out for life in the spotlight.
  "Your privacy is breached," he said. "You're no longer a normal person. [Our wedding] was a circus. I think several people got arrested trying to climb up a mountain… trying to sneak in. We actually rented the airspace."
  In 2014, Judd offered some words about his ex wife.
  "She looks fantastic, that goes without a doubt," Judd said. "Anybody that would say she doesn't look great is lying. But you know, I can't give you the answer as to why her relationships don't work. I think that it's that it is work. It's whether you want to work on it or not. Everyone has baggage and problems. It's whether you want to deal with those problems. When you sign up to get married, you can't just walk away."
• Chris Kattan and Sunshine Tutt - Kattan, a former Saturday Night Live star, married model Sunshine Tutt in 2008. They split 59 days later. Per TMZ, Tutt received a modest six-figure settlement in the divorce.
  "My client is very relieved that she can leave this two month marriage with some resources that will allow her to rebuild her life," Tutt’s lawyer said.
• Elisabeth Moss and Fred Armisen - Moss and Armisen married in October 2009, but ended their relationship in June 2010. After the dust settled, Moss blamed Armisen for the breakup.
  "One of the greatest things I heard someone say about him is, 'He's so great at doing impersonations. But the greatest impersonation he does is that of a normal person,'" Moss said in 2012. "To me, that sums it up."
  Armisen seemed to agree.
  "I think I was a terrible husband," he told Howard Stern. "I think I’m a terrible boyfriend."

Over the years, Hollywood has had dozens of quick celebrity divorces, so this list isn’t comprehensive. Other notable splits include Rudolph Valentino and Jean Acker (they split on their wedding night), Pamela Anderson and Rick Salomon (they married twice, but each marriage lasted less than a year), Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney (they annulled after four months), and Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Esposito (they filed for divorce after four months).