Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner were romantically involved while both were prominent in Hollywood. Sinatra left his first wife and married Gardner in 1951, their marriage was tempestuous and they separated in 1953, Gardner filed for divorce in 1954 and the divorce was finalized in 1957. They had no children together, and afterwards they remained on friendly terms at times.
They met in the early 1990s and began dating in 1994. Kennedy proposed in 1995 and they married in a private ceremony on September 21, 1996, on Cumberland Island, Georgia. The couple lived in New York under intense media scrutiny and kept much of their private life guarded. Their marriage ended when both died in the plane crash near Martha's Vineyard on July 16, 1999.
Sissy Spacek and Jack Fisk met while working on Terrence Malick's film Badlands in 1973. They married on April 12, 1974. The couple have two daughters, Schuyler Fisk (born July 8, 1982) and Madison Fisk (born September 21, 1988). Spacek and her family moved to a farm near Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1982 and the marriage is recorded as continuing.
Lou Adler and Shelley Fabares were married in 1964. Adler produced several of Fabares's songs while they were married. They separated in 1966 and their divorce was finalized in 1980. The consulted sources do not record any children from their marriage.
Noomi Rapace and Ola Rapace were married in 2001. They chose the joint surname Rapace while married. The couple had one son, Lev, who was born in 2003. They filed for divorce in September 2010 and the divorce took effect in 2011.
Joely Richardson and Tim Bevan were married in 1992. The couple had a daughter, Daisy Bevan, who was born in 1992. The marriage ended in divorce in 2001.
They met while co-starring in the 1985 film Fandango. They married in 1986. They had a son, Jasper, during their marriage. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1994.
Kate Moss and Jamie Hince began their relationship after meeting in 2007. They married on 1 July 2011 at St Peter's Church in Southrop, Gloucestershire, in a widely covered ceremony. The couple separated in July 2015 and their divorce was finalized in 2016. They did not have children together.
Barbara Rush and Jeffrey Hunter married in 1950. Their marriage produced one son, Christopher, who was born in 1952. The couple divorced in 1955. The sources consulted do not state when or how they first met.
They met in 1995 when Dalle's teenage band Sourpuss and Tim Armstrong's band Rancid played the same Summersault/Somersault festival in Australia. Dalle moved to Los Angeles in 1997 and she and Armstrong married later that year. The couple separated and divorced in 2003 after a bitter split that press coverage links to Armstrong seeing a picture of Dalle with Josh Homme. Brody Dalle later married Josh Homme and her publicly documented children are with Homme; reliable sources do not report children from her marriage to Armstrong.
Mara Corday met Richard Long in 1954 while they were working on the film Playgirl. Following the 1955 death of Long's first wife, Suzan Ball, Corday began dating him, and they married in Las Vegas in 1957. They had three children together, and Corday gave up her acting career in the early 1960s to raise their family. Their marriage ended with Long's death in 1974, after which Corday was widowed.
The available biographies do not document when or how John Osborne and Jill Bennett first met. They were romantically involved before marrying in 1968, with one biographical account describing Bennett as Osborne's mistress at the time of the marriage. Their marriage was turbulent and degenerated into mutual abuse. They divorced acrimoniously in 1978. They had no children together.
Rut and Willy Brandt first met in Stockholm in 1942, became more closely acquainted in late 1943, and acknowledged being in love in summer 1944. Rut moved to Berlin in 1947, and they married on 4 September 1948. They had three sons, Peter, Lars, and Matthias, born in 1948, 1951, and 1961. Their marriage deteriorated, they announced their separation in spring 1979, and divorced in December 1980; afterward, they did not see each other again.
Ricciarelli said she met Carreras in Parma in 1972, after they were introduced while attending Otello together, and described it as love at first sight. They were in a relationship from 1972 to 1984, while also working together in recordings and on stage. Carreras was married to Mercedes Pérez when they met, and Ricciarelli later said the relationship ended because she did not want to remain his “eternal fiancée” and because she felt betrayed. They had no children together, and Ricciarelli married Pippo Baudo on 18 January 1986.
Cecilia Morel began dating Sebastián Piñera in 1972, when she was 18 and he was her neighbor on Avenida Américo Vespucio in Santiago. They married in 1973 and moved to the United States in December 1974 while Piñera studied economics. They had four children: Magdalena, Cecilia, Juan Sebastián, and Cristóbal. In 2018, they renewed their vows at La Moneda to mark their 45th wedding anniversary. Their relationship ended with Piñera’s death in a helicopter crash on February 6, 2024.
Sergio Rubini and Margherita Buy met at an acting academy and married in 1991. They separated in 1993, and a biographical account reports that their divorce was finalized in summer 2012. They had no children together. Buy later had daughter Caterina with Renato De Angelis in 2001.
Salchak Toka and Khertek Anchimaa were a documented married couple. Toka married Anchimaa in 1940, while a regional account says their marriage was legally registered in 1941. According to an account based on Anchimaa's recollection, Toka came to her home with an aide to propose, and she did not immediately accept; no reliable source located gives the year they first met. They remained together for about three decades, until Toka's death on 11 May 1973, after which Anchimaa adopted the surname Anchimaa-Toka.
Rabah Bitat and Zohra Drif were married and stayed together until Rabah's death in 2000.
Konstantin Simonov and Valentina Serova were married and stayed together until Valentina's death in 1975.
Boris Borisovich Yegorov and Natalia Fateeva were married from 1965 to 1970.
Mieczysław Rakowski and Wanda Wiłkomirska were married and stayed together until Mieczysław's death in 2008.
Martin Emmrich and Michaëlla Krajicek are married.
Johannes Hahn and Susanne Riess married in 2022 and are still together.
Anton Smolski and Dzinara Smolskaya married in 2022 and are still together.
Mikheil Saakashvili and Sandra Roelofs married in 1993 and are still together.
♥♥♥♥♥ Opposites Attract
A Sagittarius man and a Capricorn woman are a more challenging blend (63/100, opposites attract), but the couples below show that friction and chemistry often go together.
Sagittarius: Fire, Mutable, ruled by Jupiter. Capricorn: Earth, Cardinal, ruled by Saturn. Compatibility here is for entertainment.