Hola jhabley,
I must say this became rather addictive research once I got started.
You can almost put any celebrity's name in Google along with co
-search words of 'annul,' 'annulled,' 'annulment,' or 'due
discretion' and find a new lead. Hopefully, all this information is
accurate but it goes without saying this would require second and
third source verification.
Brooke Shields-Andre Agassi:
"Brooke Shields, whose past relationships include Liam Neeson, Dean
Cain and the gloved one himself Michael Jackson, has rebounded from
her failed marriage to tennis ace Andre Agassi. Shields had her
marriage annulled so she could marry new hubby producer Chris Henchy
in a Catholic ceremony."
http://www.tribute.ca/tribute/0702/sex_degrees.htm
Janet Jackson-James DeBarge:
"Janet Jackson married James DeBarge in 1984 then annulled 1984."
http://www.ojar.com/celebs.php
Marlon Brando-Movita Castanada:
"Wife: Movita, married in secret ceremony 1960; marriage annulled 1968."
http://www.paralumun.com/moviebrando.htm
Jennifer Lopez-Chris Judd
"Apparently the Catholic Church has banned Jennifer Lopez and her
newfound love Ben Affleck from getting married by any Catholic clergy.
It seems that this new drama has surfaced because of Jenny Lo?s first
marriage with Oyani Kno whom is twenty-eight years old. Want to hear
the story? Well it goes a little something like this: Jen has been
dreaming and planning this huge Catholic wedding in which both she and
Ben would have many family and friends attend. Well, according to the
authorities of the Catholic Church, you have to have all previous
marriages annulled before remarrying. Now for J Lo, her second
marriage with Chris Judd was annulled and is out of the way, but it?s
her first marriage with Oyani that seems to be causing the rippling
effect in Jen and Ben?s water."
http://www.tmhentertainment.com/site_jc.html
Caroline Ranier-Phillipe Junot
"However, Caroline's delight in her growing family was cut short on
October 3, 1990, when avid sportsman Stefano, aged 30, was killed in a
speedboat racing accident. The young widow decided to retreat with her
children to Saint-Remy in France, "to move away from the gossip and
hoopla of Monaco" explained Prince Albert. There the family lived
quietly in a rented villa for years ? during which time Caroline's
first marriage was annulled ? until a controversial romance put the
princess back in the spotlight."
Janet Leigh-??
"Eloped at the age of 14 - marriage was later annulled. Thus, Tony
Curtis was her 3rd husband when she married him in her 20s."
http://www.classicscifi.com/actors.php?actor=Janet+Leigh
Ella Fitzgerald-Benny Konegay
"Perhaps in search of stability and protection, Ella married Benny
Kornegay, a local dockworker who had been pursuing her. Upon learning
that Kornegay had a criminal history, Ella realized that the
relationship was a mistake and had the marriage annulled."
http://www.hiponline.com/artist/music/f/fitzgerald_ella
Kennedys
"Kennedy?s son Jack was the shining star senator from Massachusetts
who, many said, was eyeing the White House and who, because of his
daddy?s bucks and influence would inevitably reach his goal. In the
early 50s, Momo had pulled strings for the old man to have his son?s
career-threatening marriage to a lower-class girl annulled and all
legal documents eradicated."
http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/giancana/connection_7.html?sect=15
"The couple was married in 1979 and divorced. Kennedy began annulment
proceedings in 1993, but did not wait for their completion before
marrying a member of his staff that same year. Rausch-Kennedy said in
her epilogue that the marriage tribunal granted the annulment on the
grounds that Joseph lacked "due discretion."
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=4697
Frank Sinatra-Nancy Barbato
"In 1939 he married Nancy Barbato and had two children. Nancy Sandra
Sinatra was born in 1940 and Frank, Jr. was born in 1944. On October
30, 1951 they divorced. Ava Gardner became his second wife on November
7, 1951. On July 19, 1966 he entered into a "May-December" marriage
with young Mia Farrow, but was divorced in August of 1968. On July 11,
1976 he married for the last time. He and Barbara lived in Beverly
Hills. A note of interest: Frank had his first marriage, which took
place in the Roman Catholic Church, annulled."
http://goinside.com/98/5/sinatra.html
Marilyn Monroe-Robert Slatzer (?)
"Robert Slatzer, the journalist and screenwriter who is best known for
his perpetually controversial assertion that he and his
then-girlfriend Marilyn Monroe were married in Tijuana on October 4,
1952, only to have to return to Tijuana, on orders from Marilyn's
boss, 20th Century Fox chief Darryl F. Zanuck, to destroy the wedding
license. Despite the Zanuck-directed annulment, Slatzer has fond
memories of Tijuana."
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1346/6_45/62298392/p3/article.jhtml?term=
Phillis McGuire
"Phyllis McGuire was a battered wife. The lead singer of the McGuire
Sisters recently divulged on a local radio show that her late husband
used to beat her. She was pushed into marriage by strict family
morals. "I did marry at 21. It was a terrible mistake. It was
annulled. I was a teetotaler and I didn't realize he drank. He was an
announcer and he had a gorgeous voice." How he behaved after he drank
wasn't so attractive. "He drank and he'd get mean. One night he hit me
and broke my jaw. It was wired shut for five weeks." Phyllis is
writing an autobiography that will detail her years under the care of
a psychiatrist because of her feelings of inadequacy and her defense
of her one true love, Sam Giancana."
http://www.lvlife.com/jan2000/702/story01.html
Artie Shaw-Jane Carns
"Back to the 20th century. Jazz clarinetist, Artie Shaw, was known for
forming and dismantling great bands and marriages. His first marriage,
to Jane Carns, came when Shaw was 19, and was quickly annulled. Later
he married two of Hollywood's greatest beauties of the age, Ava
Gardner (two years after her marriage to Mickey Rooney ended) and Lana
Turner. His other marriages were to nurse Margaret Allen, actresses
Evelyn Keyes and Doris Dowling, Betty Kern (daughter of Broadway
composer Jerome Kern), and author Kathleen Winsor."
(...)
Lana Turner-Steven Crane
"Artie Shaw's wife, Lana Turner, was also much married. Shaw was her
first husband, and she wed her second, Steven Crane, twice: their
first marriage was annulled after Crane's divorce from an earlier wife
was declared invalid. Her other marriages included Bob Topping (#3),
actor Lex Barker (#4), businessmen Fred May (#5) and Robert Eaton
(#6), and nightclub performer Ronald Dante (#7). Turner is more famous
for a man she didn't marry: in 1958, between her marriages to Barker
and May, Turner's lover Johnny Stompanato was killed by her daughter
Cheryl Crane. The killing was later ruled justifiable homicide."
http://www.who2.com/serialspouses.html
Don Johnson
"Such domestic serenity didn't come easy. Products of dysfunctional
families, Melanie and Don say they both felt world-weary by the age of
19. Don's parents divorced when he was just a child. As a teen, he
spent time in a juvenile-detention center. But he took to acting while
in high school, and a drama scholarship brought him to the University
of Kansas. That was followed by a stint with the American Conservatory
Theater in San Francisco and a couple of quickie marriages, both of
which were annulled. At 19, he made his film debut in The Magic Garden
of Stanley Sweetheart - the first in a series of many flops."
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Studio/1463/htmlhottest.html
Courtney Love-Falling James Moreland
"Sure, she whispers the odd secret, such as Love being an heiress to
the Bausch fortune, her pre-Cobain flings with Billy Corgan (aka
?Billy Pumpkin?) and fellow Hole-ster Eric Erlandson, not to mention
her quickly annulled marriage to transvestite Falling James Moreland
(who now considers himself ?the Eddie Fisher of punk?), but there?s
nothing here that could be considered incisive or new."
http://www.nyrock.com/features/courtneylove.htm
Tanya Roberts:
"Significant Other(s):
Husband: Married when age 15; marriage annulled
Husband: Barry Roberts; met in a movie line in New York; a few months
later, she proposed to him in a subway station"
http://www.eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,13385,00.html?celfact1
Milla Jovovich-Shawn Andrews
"When she was 16, Milla was filming Dazed and Confused in Texas. One
day, she and co-star Shawn Andrews eloped to Las Vegas and got
married. Her mother quickly had the union annulled."
http://www.canoe.ca/JamMoviesArtistsJ/jovovich_milla.html
Mick Jagger-Jerry Hall
"Hall filed for divorce from Jagger after Brazilian model Luciana
Morad announced she was pregnant with Jagger's child. (She gave birth
to a boy in May.) But Jagger, 56, disputed the legality of their Hindu
wedding ceremony, which was held in Bali in 1991. A judge annulled
their marriage in August."
http://www.cnn.com/1999/SHOWBIZ/News/12/27/showbuzz
Samantha Kluge-Richard Birkenhead
"Just two weeks after PAGE SIX reported there was trouble brewing
between beautiful cable heiress Samantha Kluge and her rocker husband
Richie Birkenhead, the eight-month-old marriage has been annulled. "We
remain the best of friends," Kluge, daughter of billionaire
telecommunications mogul, John Kluge."
http://www.cvsa-tc.org/urban_outerwear.html
Billie Dove
"A few years later, her real-life husband would not be so lucky.
Dove's own marriage clause was presented to her by the millionaire
playboy and film producer Howard Hughes. Enamoured by the starlet,
Hughes offered her a contract worth $US50,000 per picture "if she
would remove herself from any marriage entanglements". Not burdened by
the morals of a movie heroine, she chose her career (and presumably,
Hughes' affections) over her husband. Her marriage was annulled in
1929, leading to rumours that Willat had sold his wife."
http://www.markjuddery.com/html/tributes/1997_billie_dove.html
Victor Mature:
"He will do no more than state the facts. "My first marriage was
annulled; my second lasted four months; my third lasted six years and
should have been over in three months."
http://victormature.tripod.com/beautiful.htm
Pamela Harriman-Randolph Churchill
"Divorced from Randolph in 1945, Pamela moved to France, dallied with
playboy prince Aly Khan, had the Churchill marriage annulled--while
keeping the name--and converted to Catholicism in an effort to marry
Gianni Agnelli, bachelor head of auto giant Fiat. He balked, as did
the married Elie de Rothschild, scion of the French banking and wine
family."
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/02/10/time/harriman
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The only French-Canadian connection I found was Jack Kerouac-Edie
Parker. Perhaps we could take some lessons in our neighbors to the
north who don't seem in an American rush to the altar.
Jack Kerouac, Writer, b. Lowell, MA, USA. d. Oct. 21, 1969, St.
Petersburg, FL, USA. nee: Jean Louis de Kerouac. Jack, the son of a
printer, was born a French-Canadian child, speaking a French patois
before learning English. His first published story was based on "The
Shadow", an American radio show popular during the late 1930s. He
later attended Columbia University (New York City) and took Thomas
Wolfe as his writing model. The Dharma Burns, a tale of Zen Buddhism
and a group of writers was one of his better stories. On Aug. 22,
1944, he married his first wife, Edie Parker, and the marriage ended
in an annulment.
http://nfo.net/calendar/mar.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac
Thanks for a fun question,
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