Garner met Scott Foley on the set of the TV series Felicity in 1998. They married on October 19, 2000. The couple separated in March 2003, Garner filed for divorce in May 2003, and divorce paperwork was signed in March 2004. They did not have children together.
Mariah Carey first encountered Tommy Mottola in December 1988 when she handed him a demo tape and he later signed her to Columbia. They began dating while she was recording her debut album and married at Saint Thomas Church in New York City on June 5, 1993. The couple separated in December 1996, publicly announced their separation in May 1997, and divorced on March 4, 1998. Mottola later reflected on that marriage in his memoir.
Eric Winter and Roselyn Sánchez met at a party in Los Angeles in 2005 and began dating three months later. They became engaged in December 2007 during a vacation in Puerto Rico and married in San Juan on November 29, 2008. The couple has two children, daughter Sebella Rose and son Dylan Gabriel, both conceived via IVF. They remain married and frequently share updates about their family life in the media.
Betty and Gerald Ford met in August 1947 after being introduced by mutual friends and were married on October 15, 1948, in Grand Rapids. They had four children between 1950 and 1957 and spent decades in public life as Gerald served in the U.S. House, as vice president, and then as president from 1974 to 1977. Betty Ford became a prominent First Lady known for her candor and later founded the Betty Ford Center for addiction treatment. The couple remained married until Gerald Ford's death in 2006.
Donald Sutherland and Shirley Douglas were married in 1966. They had two children together, twins Kiefer and Rachel Sutherland. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1970. Shirley Douglas moved to Los Angeles in 1967 after marrying Donald Sutherland.
Ali MacGraw and Robert Evans married on October 24, 1969. They had one son, Josh Evans, who was born January 16, 1971. The couple separated in 1972 and their divorce was finalized on June 7, 1973. Ali MacGraw married Steve McQueen on July 12, 1973.
Ray Allen and Sexyy Red are married.
Rain and Kim Tae-hee first met while filming a commercial in 2012 and began dating shortly after. Their relationship became public in early 2013, and they eventually married in a private ceremony in January 2017. The couple has since welcomed two daughters, born in 2017 and 2019. They remain one of South Korea's most prominent celebrity couples.
They met in 2015 while working as models for the same fashion brand and their agencies publicly confirmed they were dating on 22 July 2015. Kim Woo-bin has been publicly linked to Shin Min-a since mid-2015 and the couple remained together during Kim's 2017 cancer diagnosis and treatment. In November 2025 they announced plans to marry and their wedding took place on 20 December 2025 at the Shilla Hotel in Seoul. The consulted sources do not report any children.
They met during rehearsals for Neil Simon's play The Good Doctor in New York City in 1973 and were married three weeks later. Neil Simon had cast Marsha Mason after seeing her 1973 film work, and they remained married from 1973 until their divorce in 1983. During their marriage Mason starred in films written by Simon, including The Goodbye Girl (1977) and the screen adaptation of Chapter Two (1979). There is no documentation in the consulted biographical sources of any children born to the Simon–Mason marriage.
Princess Märtha of Sweden and Prince Olav (later Olav V) were first cousins who became engaged during the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. They married in Oslo Cathedral on 21 March 1929. The couple had three children: Princess Ragnhild (1930–2012), Princess Astrid (born 1932), and Prince Harald (born 1937), who later became King Harald V. Crown Princess Märtha died in 1954, so the marriage ended with her death before Olav acceded to the throne in 1957.
Stewart Copeland and Sonja Kristina became romantically involved while Copeland was working with Curved Air in the mid 1970s. They maintained their relationship and were married in 1982. Copeland adopted Sonja Kristina's son from a previous relationship and the couple had two sons together. The marriage ended in divorce in 1991.
The available cited sources do not state how or when Sidney Lumet and Rita Gam first met. They married in 1949. The marriage ended in the mid 1950s; Rita Gam's Wikipedia entry shows the divorce year as 1954 while Sidney Lumet's entry shows the marriage ending in 1955. The cited sources do not document any children from that marriage.
Michael Trucco and Sandra Hess met in 1998 while working on Pensacola: Wings of Gold, where they both played lieutenants in the same Marine unit. They married in July 2009 in a ceremony in Mexico. They have publicly marked wedding anniversaries and remain described as married. They do not have children together.
Peter Lorre and Kaaren Verne were married on May 25, 1945. Biographical sources identify Verne as Lorre's wife and former wife, and record that their marriage ended in divorce in 1950. A New York Times biographical entry says that Lorre continued to contact Verne after their divorce during personal crises. No reliable source located in this research documents when or how they first met, and they had no children together.
Pearl Bailey and Louie Bellson were introduced in London by Duke Ellington trombonist Juan Tizol and married after a four-day courtship on November 19, 1952. They remained married for 38 years and adopted two children, Tony and Dee Dee. Bellson became Bailey's musical director, and they performed together during their marriage. Their marriage ended when Bailey died in August 1990.
Howard Webb and Bibiana Steinhaus first met in person in 2013 at a UEFA refereeing seminar in Rome, where top female referees were invited alongside their male colleagues for the first time. They reconnected at the same seminar the following year in Lisbon and stayed in occasional contact, and in late 2015 Webb invited Steinhaus to dinner during an eight-hour layover in Frankfurt, which marked the beginning of their romantic relationship. Webb, who was ending his marriage to his then-wife Kay, moved to Hannover to live with Steinhaus, and the couple remained together even after Webb moved to the United States in 2017 for his role with the Professional Referee Organization. After dating for nearly six years, the two former police officers and elite football referees married on March 26, 2021 in Germany, in a ceremony with no guests or witnesses due to coronavirus regulations. The couple remain married, having at times maintained a long-distance arrangement between the United States and Europe, and have no children together.
Alexander Zhulin said he first noticed Tatiana Navka at the 1993 World Championships in Prague, and their relationship developed during subsequent training. They married in 2000. Their daughter, Sasha, was born in May 2000 in the United States. They filed for divorce in 2009 and were officially divorced in 2010.
Mary Anderson and Leon Shamroy married on May 12, 1953. They had one son, Anderson Alexander Shamroy, who died on July 1, 1956, at age two months. They remained married until Shamroy's death in 1974, after which Anderson was his widow. The available biographical and obituary sources do not document when or how they first met.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Bella Akhmadulina were a married romantic couple. The New York Times reported that they met at a student gathering in 1954, and Yevtushenko recalled marrying her a few weeks later. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1958. No children together are documented, and Akhmadulina later had daughter Elizaveta Kulieva with Eldar Kuliev.
French musician and composer Yann Tiersen was married to Belgian actress Natacha Régnier. Their work overlapped: Tiersen wrote the song Rue des cascades used in the final scene of Régnier's film La Vie rêvée des anges (1998), and Régnier performed songs on his 2001 album L'Absente. The couple had a daughter, Lise Tiersen, born on 19 April 2002. Tiersen and Régnier later divorced; by 2008 Régnier had a second daughter with photographer Guillaume Bounaud.
Jan Assmann and Aleida Assmann were married and stayed together until Jan's death in 2024.
Petar Nenadić and Jelena Nikolić are married.
Kenji Honnami and Karina Maruyama are married.
Nobuharu Asahara and Fumiko Okuno are married.
Prince Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy and Clotilde Courau married in 2003 and are still together.
Dany Boon and Judith Godrèche were married from 1998 to 2002.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Consuelo de Saint Exupéry married in 1931 and stayed together until Antoine's death in 1944.
♥♥♥♥♥ Slow Burn
A Cancer man and an Aries woman are a more challenging blend (50/100, slow burn), but the couples below show that friction and chemistry often go together.
Cancer: Water, Cardinal, ruled by Moon. Aries: Fire, Cardinal, ruled by Mars. Compatibility here is for entertainment.