Just 10 weeks after her lavish, made-for-TV wedding to basketballer Kris Humphries, reality starlet Kim Kardashian has filed for a divorce citing the usual irreconcilable differences.
It's hard keeping up with this Kardashian. Just 10 weeks after her lavish, made-for-TV wedding to basketballer Kris Humphries, reality starlet Kim Kardashian has filed for a divorce citing the usual irreconcilable differences.
Trouble had been in the offing for a while, with Kim making multiple public appearances sans her wedding ring. Public reaction after news of the impending divorce was quick to label the wedding a gimmick for Kim's reality show.
"I hope everyone understands this was not an easy decision," Kim said in a statement. "I had hoped this marriage was forever but sometimes things don't work out as planned."
Model and actress Robin Givens, also famous as Mike Tyson's ex, was married to second husband, Svetozar Marinkovic, for just one day. They married in 1997 and separated the same day. Givens filed for divorce some months later.
Svetozar Marinkovic had been her tennis instructor. Givens divorced first husband Tyson in 1989 amid allegations of domestic violence. She also dated Eddie Murphy, shock jock Howard Stern and Brad Pitt before he became famous.
What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas - not if you are Britney Spears. The pop princess said I Do to her childhood friend Jason Alexander at 5 am on January 3, 2004 at Las Vegas' Little White Wedding Chapel. The surprise wedding was attended by absolutely no friends, family, or paparazzi, and the bride was dressed in jeans and a baseball cap.
55 hours later, it was over. After a quick annulment, Britney said the "spirit of Sin City" had led her down the aisle.
Baywatch babe Carmen Electra married basketball star Dennis Rodman in November 1998 in a quickie Las Vegas wedding. Caught by surprise, Rodman's publicist said the marriage wasn't legal and that star may have been intoxicated at the time. Electra and Rodman maintained they were deeply in love.
But only for the next nine days, when the filed for an annulment. The marriage officially ended six months later. Carmen Electra later compared the wedding to "getting a cheeseburger in a fast food restaurant".
Dancing With The Stars alumnus Mario Lopez married model and actress Ali Landry on April 24, 2004 at an exclusive ceremony in Mexico. Just two weeks later, they filed for annulment, after Landry found out that Lopez had been unfaithful many times during the six years that they dated.
Charlie's Angel Drew Barrymore was just 19 when she married Welsh bartender turned bar owner Jeremy Thomas on March 20, 1994. They were married by a priest they had hired just an hour before the wedding though a psychic hotline.
Six weeks later, Barrymore filed for divorce. She went on to marry comedian Tom Green. This time, it lasted six months.
Funny man Eddie Murphy and movie producer Tracey Edmonds married on New Year's Day in 2008, on the Polynesian island of Bora Bora.
Two weeks later, they called it quits. Their island wedding was not legally binding, so officially the couple were never married. By all accounts, Murphy and Edmonds fought like cats and dogs after exchanging vows and their families soon joined in.
Late actor and original bad boy Dennis Hopper, infamous for his drug abuse and troubled relationships, was married to second wife Michelle Phillips for all of eight days.
The brief union was bizarre in the extreme. On their wedding day, Mamas and Papas singer Michelle asked Hopper if he had considered suicide. In the eight days that they were married, Hopper allegedly handcuffed Michelle so that she couldn't run away.
Baywatch star Pamela Anderson married musician Kid Rock on board a yacht in St Tropez in August 2006. Pammy wore a white string bikini but that wasn't enough to make their marriage work. 122 days later, they raced each other to the courthouse to file divorce papers. Kid Rock got there first, beating Pamela Anderson by 53 minutes.
Face Off actor Nicholas Cage married rock royalty Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, in a grand Hawaii ceremony in August 2002.
107 days later Cage served Presley with divorce papers, saying they should have never married at all. This was the third divorce for the infamously unlucky in love Presley. Just 20 days after divorcing her first husband, she married the King Of Pop, Michael Jackson. That one burnt out in 20 months.
