55 Hours, 72 Days: A Look Back at the Shortest Celebrity Marriages Inline
Photo: Splash News1/6Britney Spears and Jason Alexander
Many cite this 55-hour marriage as the beginning of Britney’s downward spiral. After a couple of days of partying in Las Vegas, Spears and childhood friend Alexander decided to go off and get married at around 5:00 a.m. on a Saturday in a $70 seven-minute ceremony at A Little White Wedding Chapel. Suffice it to say, her handlers were not pleased, and the wedding was annulled by Monday. At least her 2004 marriage to Kevin Federline lasted two years.
Photo: Getty Images2/6Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries
Before there was Kimye, there was the Hump. Kardashian wed the basketball player in a ridiculously lavish ceremony that was thoroughly documented by E!. It was pretty obvious to the fans of KUWTK that this probably wouldn’t last, and, as predicted, the pair filed for divorce after 72 days.
Photo: Getty Images3/6Cher and Gregg Allman
Days after finalizing her divorce from Sonny Bono, Cher wed rock star Gregg Allman in Vegas. Just nine or 10 days later, Cher filed for divorce, though the couple soon reconciled and stayed together for a few more years. Can you say, “If I Could Turn Back Time”?
Photo: Getty Images4/6Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra
The pull of Vegas never seems to fail the celebrity crowd: Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman wed there at the Little Chapel of the Flowers on November 14, 1998. Rodman was the one who filed for an annulment less than two weeks later, claiming he was of unsound mind when the whole thing went down, though the couple seemed to have reconciled in February. Ultimately, six months later the divorce went through. Years later, Electra told Oprah her marriage to Rodman was at times “the worst.”
Photo: Getty Images5/6Pam Anderson and Rick Salomon
The 2007 nuptials between the Baywatch star and the famous poker player were over in two months. That was the first time. The pair remarried in 2014, but ended up dragging through a year-long, on-again-off-again relationship, finalizing their second divorce in April of last year.
