Daily Mail, Tuesday, August 13, 2019 Page 23THE NEWLYWEDS: Reality TV star Kim
Kardashian, then aged 30, and basketball player
Kris Humphries, then aged 26.
MARRIAGE MILESTONE: 72 days
HOOK UP: She was spotted at his Brooklyn Nets
basketball game in October 2010. In 2011 she
Tweeted a photo of a young Humphries, cap-
tioned: ‘I want my son to look like this!’
FANCY PROPOSAL? He spelt out ‘Will you marry
me?’ in rose petals and presented her with a
£1.5 million ring — which she was rumoured to
have paid for. ‘I was in such shock,’ recalls Kim.
WEDDING: A £7 million affair in California on
August 20, 2011. Kim wore a Vera Wang gown. A
four-hour special of the Kardashian reality show
was later dedicated to the wedding.
MARITAL STRIFE: Kris apparently got cold feet
about being trailed by cameras. One friend said:
‘I think Kim was more in love with the whole idea
of the wedding than she was in love with Kris.’
HE SAID: ‘I love my wife and am devastated to
learn she filed for divorce.’ He recently described
the break up as ‘brutal.’ He is still single.
SHE SAID: ‘I hoped this marriage was forever, but
sometimes things don’t work out as planned. ’
She is now married to rapper Kanye West.THE NEWLYWEDS: Pop
star Jennifer Lopez, then
32 , and choreographer
Cris Judd, then 30.
MARRIAGE MILESTONE:
Nine months.
HOOK UP: Judd claimed
it was love at first sight
after being hired as
the singer’s backup
dancer for her music
video Love Don’t Cost
A Thing in 2000.
FANCY PROPOSAL?
J-Lo’s knuckle-duster
diamond ring was
rumoured to have
cost six figures.
THE BIG DAY: At a moun-
tain-top estate in Califor-
nia on September 29,
2001, with 10,000 rose
buds brought in spe-
cially, 170 guests dancing
the conga and J-Loresplendent in a lace
Valentino gown.
MARITAL STRIFE: Cris’s
dad pinned the blame
on actor Ben Affleck,
who J-Lo got together
with shortly afterwards.
Lopez filed for divorce
in July 2002 citing irrec-
oncilable differences.
HE SAID: That he’d keep
schtum, explaining,
‘everyone wants to
know the dirt about
your marriage and
what went wrong. And I
never wanted to do
that because that’s no
one’s business.’
SHE SAID: Later
described Judd as ‘an
amazing person, who I
love’, but then said the
marriage didn’t count
as it was so brief.COOPER WAS ‘COCKY
AND MANIPULATIVE’
THE NEWLYWEDS: Actors Bradley Cooper,
then 31, and Jennifer Esposito, then 33.
MARRIAGE MILESTONE: Four months.
HOOK UP: When Esposito was in demand
after starring in Oscar-winning film Crash
and Cooper was still relatively unknown.
FANCY PROPOSAL?: Unknown. The couple
kept their relationship so private Esposito
refused to confirm they were even a couple
at a Golden Globes Party in 2006, retorting
when asked: ‘I’m not answering that.’
THE BIG DAY: A low-key affair in the South of
France on December 21, 2006.
MARITAL STRIFE: Bitter. In her 2014 book,
Jennifer’s Way, Esposito said she was in a
relationship with someone at the time who
was ‘cocky, arrogant, and a master
manipulator’. She never denied her words
referenced her marriage to Cooper, from
whom she filed for divorced after four
months, citing irreconcilable differences. A
spokesperson for Cooper said he and
Esposito had been ‘separated for quite a
while’ — a bizarre statement considering
the length of the marriage.
HE SAID: ‘It just wasn’t right.’ He recently
split from supermodel Irina Shayk with
whom he has a two-year-old daughter.
SHE SAID: Nothing. The ‘B’ word is banned in
Jennifer’s house.
THE NEWLYWEDS: Baywatch’s Pamela
Anderson, then 40, and professional
poker player Rick Salomon, then 38.
MARITAL MILESTONE: 60 days.
HOOK UP: Playing poker apparently, as
Anderson put it: ‘I paid off a poker debt
with sexual favours, and I fell in love.’
FANCY PROPOSAL? Pragmatic, with the
October 2007 ceremony squeezed into a
90-minute slot in between two magic
shows Anderson was appearing in at Las
Vegas’s Mirage Hotel.
THE BIG DAY: The bride wore a white
denim Valentino dress and said: ‘It’s a
big day. A big day at the office.’
MARITAL STRIFE: The couple sought an
annulment that December, with
Anderson citing irreconcilable differ-
ences and claiming ‘fraud’. They later
got back together, and wed for a second
time in January 2014, before Anderson
filed for divorce, changed her mind and
asked the judge to dismiss the petition
that August, before filing for a divorce
for the third time in 2015.
HE SAID: ‘I look back at pictures of
myself when I was in that awful relation-
ship and I looked 20 years older.’
SHE SAID: A leaked email to Salomon
sent in February 2015 supposedly said:
‘We are not compatible sexually. I’m
frustrated and bored.’THE NEWLYWEDS: Actor
Nicolas Cage, 55, and
make-up artist Erika
Koike, 34.
MARRIAGE MILESTONE:
Four days.
HOOK UP: Started dating
last April, when they were
spotted holidaying
together in Puerto Rico.
A FANCY PROPOSAL? Not
known, this couple were
in far too big a rush.
THE BIG DAY: In Las Vegas
on March 23. Footage
obtained of them apply-
ing for a marriage licence
the same day shows Cage
appearing drunk andoverheard telling Koike
he’s ‘not doing it’.
MARITAL STRIFE: Cage
sought an annulment on
March 27, claiming he
and Koike had drunk ‘to
the point of intoxication’
on the day of the wedding
and that he was too drunk
to understand his actions.
He was granted a divorce
two months later.
HE SAID: ‘I was pretty
upset about that and the
way things happened.’
SHE SAID: ‘I’m hurt and
mistreated, it’s unfair, but
the case is sealed, and my
lawyer won’t let me speak
until we are all done.’J-LO, HER DANCER AND
A SHORT-LIVED RUMBA
STAR SAID THAT HE WAS
TOO DRUNK TO MARRY
KIM PAID FOR HER OWN
£1.5m ENGAGEMENT RING
PAMMY WAS ‘PAYING
OFF A POKER DEBT’
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marriage: Miley
Cyrus and Liam
Hemsworth wed
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