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21 celebrities who have been married 3 or more times

Elon Musk
Elon Musk.REUTERS/Mike Blake
  • Nearly 40% of marriages will end in divorce, although rates are declining.

  • Many stars have walked down the aisle at least three times, like Elon Musk.

  • Business magnate Rupert Murdoch is set to tie the knot for a fifth time.

Elizabeth Taylor might be the most famous example of a celebrity who married multiple times. She had eight weddings and seven husbands.

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Elizabeth Taylor at her first wedding, to Conrad "Nickie" Hilton, Jr. on May 6, 1950.Bettman/Getty Images

Taylor was married to seven men: Conrad Hilton Jr. from 1950 to 1951; Michael Wilding from 1952 to 1957; Mike Todd from 1957 to his death in 1958; Eddie Fisher from 1959 to 1964; Richard Burton from 1964 to 1974 and then again from 1975 to 1976; John Warner from 1976 to 1982; and lastly, Larry Fortensky from 1991 to 1996.

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Taylor died in 2011.

Taylor's fifth (and sixth) husband, Richard Burton, was also married his fair share of times, too.

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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton at their first wedding in Montreal, Canada, on March 15, 1964.William Lovelace/Evening Standard/Getty Images

Burton, who co-starred in films with Taylor like "Cleopatra" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," was married five times to four women. First was Sybil Williams from 1949 to 1963; then Taylor from 1964 to 1974 and 1975 to 1976; Suzy Miller from 1976 to 1982; and finally Sally Hay from 1983 until his death in 1984.

Jennifer Lopez has been married four times — most recently, she wed Ben Affleck in Las Vegas almost 20 years after their first engagement.

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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Lopez's first husband was Ojani Noa, a waiter, whom she was married to from 1997 to 1998. After that, she wed dancer Criss Judd, which lasted from 2001 to 2003.

Famously, she was then engaged to Ben Affleck, though the two never made it down the aisle and split in early 2004. She married Marc Anthony that year, and the two musicians were married until 2014.

Lopez was then engaged once again, this time to Alex Rodriguez. They split in April 2021. And now, famously, we are living in the time of Bennifer 2.0, with Lopez and Affleck tying the knot in July 2022 in Las Vegas, almost 20 years after Affleck first proposed in November 2002.

"We did it. Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years patient," Lopez wrote in her newsletter. "When love is real, the only thing that matters in marriage is one another and the promise we make to love, care, understand, be patient, loving and good to one another. We had that. And so much more. Best night of our lives," she continued.

Kim Kardashian has been married three times, most recently to Kanye West.

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Kim Kardashian West in 2020.David Livingston/Getty Images

Kardashian's first husband was Damon Thomas, whom she married when she was 20 years old in 2000. They divorced in 2004.

Then she married NBA player Kris Humphries in 2011 before announcing their split 72 days later. Their divorce was finalized in 2013.

Kardashian then married West in 2014 and announced their split in 2021. She's since dated comedian and "SNL" star Pete Davidson, though they split after nine months together.

In May 2012, she told British Cosmopolitan, "I think you have different soulmates throughout your life; that your soul needs different things at different times. [...] I will always believe in love, but my idea has changed from what I've always thought … I just don't believe in one soulmate now."

Scarlett Johansson's October 2020 wedding to Colin Jost was her third.

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Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson on September 17, 2018.rae Patton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty Images

The "Black Widow" star was married to Ryan Reynolds from 2008 to 2011. She then wed French journalist Romain Dauriac in 2014, before they split for good in 2017.

Johansson then began dating "SNL" star Jost in May 2017, and they wed in October 2020. They welcomed a son, Cosmo, in 2021.

The "Marriage Story" actress spoke about her similarities with her character in the film — she was nominated for an Oscar for her performance as an actress going through a divorce.

"I had some kind of shared experience with the character, or with any person going through a divorce, really," Johansson told Vanity Fair in November 2019. "I understood the bittersweetness of it somehow, in a way. All those kind of in-between feelings that the character has. I understood them because I had gone through them myself."

Angelina Jolie has also been married three times.

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Angelina Jolie on January 11, 2018.Christopher Polk/Getty Images for The Critics' Choice Awards

Right at the beginning of her stardom, Jolie married her "Hackers" co-star Jonny Lee Miller in 1996. They split three years later in 1999.

Then, in a legendary move, she married Billy Bob Thornton (and also tattooed his name on her arm and wore his blood in a vial around her neck) in 2000. They were over by 2003.

The "Eternals" star then began dating Brad Pitt in 2005, though they didn't tie the knot until 2014. They legally split in 2019.

Jolie's second ex, Billy Bob Thornton, is on his sixth marriage.

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Billy Bob Thornton and Connie Angland in December 2019.Steve Granitz/WireImage/Getty Images

Thornton was first married to Melissa Lee Gatlin from 1978 to 1980, then Toni Lawrence from 1986 to 1988. Two years later, he wed actress Cynda Williams in 1990, only to split by 1992.

His fourth marriage was to Pietra Dawn Cherniak, a Playboy model, whom he was with from 1993 to 1997; next was Jolie from 2000 to 2003.

His sixth and current marriage is to Connie Angland, whom he started dating in 2002 while still legally married to Jolie (they announced their split in 2002). They finally got married in 2014 after over a decade of dating.

Stevie Wonder has been married to his third wife, Tomeeka Bracy, since 2017.

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Tomeeka Robyn Bracy and Stevie Wonder on February 25, 2016.Mike Windle/Getty Images for Weinstein Carnegie Philanthropic Group

Wonder was married to fellow musician Syreeta Wright from 1970 to 1972. Just under 30 years later, he tied the knot for a second time to fashion designer Kai Millard in 2001. They broke up in 2009 and legally divorced in 2012.

Wonder wed his third and current wife, Bracy, in 2017.

Marlon Brando was married three times, though he had multiple long-term partners, as well.

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Marlon Brando circa 1952.Archive Photos/Getty Images

Brando's first wife was fellow actress Anna Kashfi, whom he was with from 1957 to 1959. The "Streetcar Named Desire" star then married actress Movita Castaneda in 1960 — their marriage was annulled in 1968 after it was discovered she had never legally divorced her first husband, Jack Doyle.

His third and final wife was actress Tarita Teri'ipaia, who he was married to from 1962 to 1972. He died over 30 years later, in 2004.

Frank Sinatra is another old Hollywood star who seemingly loved to walk down the aisle — he was married four times.

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Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner at their wedding on November 8, 1951.Bettman/Getty Images

Ol' Blue Eyes himself was married four times: to Nancy Barbato from 1939 to 1951; Ava Gardner from 1951 to 1957; Mia Farrow from 1966 to 1968; and Barbara Marx from 1976 to his death in 1998, making it his longest relationship.

Eva Longoria married her third husband, Jose Bastón, in 2016.

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Eva Longoria and Jose Bastón on May 21, 2015.Pascal Le Segretain/amfAR15/WireImage/Getty Images

Longoria was first married to fellow soap star Tyler Christopher from 2002 to 2004, right around the time she blew up from "Desperate Housewives." Longoria then wed former NBA player Tony Parker in 2007 — their marriage ended in 2011 amid in a cheating scandal between Parker and numerous women.

Longoria married her current husband, Bastón, in 2016. She gave birth to their son, Santiago, in 2018.

"I'm not a fan of marriage; I like being married to him," Longoria told People in May 2017. "I never thought I would get married again. It's him, he makes it all worth it."

Elon Musk has been married three times to two women.

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Elon Musk.Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File

Musk's first marriage was to Canadian author Justine Musk. They were married from 2000 to 2008. She wrote about their relationship in a 2021 essay for Marie Claire titled, "'I Was a Starter Wife': Inside America's Messiest Divorce."