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Most-frequently divorced celebrities (12 images)

Two divorces? Three divorces? That's just the starting point for these famous frequenters of the front pages of the tabloids and gossip rags, both for their indiscretions during their marriages and the sheer number of matrimonials they've been involved with over the course of their lives.



Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is legendary for her dalliances and marriages, marrying (and divorcing) the following...

Burhan Asaf Belge from 1937 to 1941

Conrad Hilton from 1942 to 1947

George Sanders from 1949 to 1954

Herbert Hutner from 1962 to 1966

Joshua Cosden Jr. from 1966 to 1967

Jack Ryan from 1975 to 1976

Michael O'Hara from 1976 to 1983

Felipe de Alba from 1983 to a day later in 1983 in an annulled marriage

Frederic Prinz von Anhalt from 1986 to now.

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The former host of his eponymous talk show on CNN, King's turbulence at the altar could have landed him as a guest on his own show. He started out marrying his high school girlfriend Freda Miller in 1951 at the age of 18, and the marriage was swiftly annulled. The then married Annette Kaye, with whom he had a song, Larry Jr., who he did not meet until Jr. was in his thirties. Next came Alene Akins, a Playboy bunny, who he married in 1961, divorced in 1963, married again in 1969 and divorced again in 1972. Between his two marriages to Akins, he married Mary Francis Sutphin in 1963. Then in 1976, he married production assistant Sharon Lepore, and they divorced in 1983. Finally, in 1997, he married Shawn Southwick, and the two remained married until 2010. UPI/Olivier Douliery/Pool
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As famous as Rooney is for his height, he still has a long list of failed marriages. Rooney first married Ava Gardner in 1942, which lasted for a year, then married Betty Jane Phillips in 1944. His subsequent marriages to Martha Vickers (1949-1951) and Elaine Devry (1952-1958) ended in divorce, and his marriage to Carolyn Mitchell tragically ended in 1966 when she was murdered. In the fallout, he married her friend Marge Lane, which only lasted for 100 days. He was married to Carolyn Hockett between 1969 and 1974, but eventually, in 1978, Rooney met his match with Jan Chamberlin, with whom he has been married ever since. Their marriage, as a bit of trivia, has lasted longer than all of Rooney's previous marriages combined. (UPI Photo/Phil McCarten)
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The late, great Elizabeth Taylor matched her on-screen performances with her frequent appearances in the tabloids and rumor mills. Taylor famously responded to a question about her many marriages, "I don't know, honey. It sure beats the hell out of me." Taylor's first marriage was to Conrad Hilton, which lasted nine months, then Michael Wilding, who was 20 years older than her, between 1952 and 1957.

Next came Michael Todd, who died in 1958 after a little over a year of marriage. Then came Eddie Fisher between 1959 and 1964, famously breaking up his marriage to Debbie Reynolds.

Her famous marriages to Richard Burton, first between 1964 and 1974, which began with an affair that was condemned by the Vatican, and then after sixteen months spent apart, the two came back together in 1975, only to divorce seven months later for good.

Her next marriage, to Sen. John Warner from 1976 to 1982, resulted in her entering the Betty Ford Clinic for depression, where during another stay, she met Larry Fortensky, her final husband, between 1991 and 1996. (UPI Photo/Ezio Peterson/Files)

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