Posted on Sat, Jun. 15, 2002
Stars who won't grow old together
By Tanya Barrientos
Philidelphia Inquirer Columnist
So it's splitsville between Jennifer Lopez and her backup boy, Cris Judd, after eight short months of marriage.
Is anyone really surprised?
I'm no marriage counselor, but when your husband is on your payroll, the odds against a perfect union are pretty high.
Not to mention the fact that this particular coupling was the ultimate rebound romance. Remember that J. Lo and P. Diddy Puffy Sean Jean Combs broke up only weeks before the Latina actress-singer-dancer-restaurateur-presidential adviser (just kidding about the last one) hooked up with Judd. The diva met the dancer in January of last year, was engaged by the summer, and walked down the aisle in September.
Of course, this isn't the first time Lopez has suffered from a wedding hangover. Her first marriage, in 1997 to Ojani Noa (also a dancer - hey, Jennifer, step away from the chorus line!), lasted less than a year.
I've heard of starter marriages, but it looks as if the Hollywood set has moved beyond those to whiplash weddings, designed more to garner publicity than a lifetime of love.
Consider this not-at-all-exhaustive list of celebrities who have had one, and sometimes two, blink-and-you'll-miss-them unions:
Drew Barrymore and bar owner Jeremy Thomas said "I do" after a six-week romance and split up 19 days later.
Drew Barrymore and Tom Green played annoying comedian and wife for less than six months before calling it quits.
Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman lasted a whopping 10 days.
Shannen Doherty and Ashley Hamilton, married seven months.
Ashley Hamilton and Angie Everhart, legally hitched for 55 days.
Courtney Thorne-Smith was the jinxed cover girl of the spring 2001 issue of InStyle Weddings magazine. Her marriage to genetic scientist Andrew Conrad didn't last even until the ink was dry. The magazine, with a smiling picture of the blushing bride, hit newsstands weeks after the couple separated. They made it to seven months.
Kelly Rutherford, who starred in Melrose Place, also was subject to the InStyle curse. She married Venezuelan banker Carlos Tarajano last June, invited the magazine to cover the lavish Beverly Hills nuptials, then filed for divorce in January, a month before the issue came out. (If you ask me, it's the editors who should be blushing, not the brides!)
Julia Roberts overcame her altar aversion long enough to do the deed with singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett in 1993, but the vows didn't take. They were married for less than two years.
Helen Hunt and Hank Azaria dated successfully for six years, then put the kibosh on their love affair when they made it legal in 1999. The marriage lasted 17 months.
Actress Robin Givens and tennis instructor Svetozar Marinkovic, who scored "love all" in 1997, got married and separated the same day (Aug. 22).

The divorce was official a few months later. That one was considerably shorter than Givens' short (16-month) and infamous union with Mike Tyson, which ended in 1989.
Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley did a less-than-convincing 1994 televised kiss that foreshadowed their split. Their baffling union lasted 20 surreal months.
And back in 1970 (lest you think this is only a post-boomer phenomenon), actor Dennis Hopper married Michelle Phillips (the Mamas and the Papas, and later Knots Landing) on Halloween. The candy was dandy, but when the sugar rush lifted eight days later, the couple dashed to divorce court to call it quits.
Hey, I know marriage is hard work. Half of the marriages in America fail, and that's just among us "little people." I'm sure being rich and famous and having to deal with mansions and servants and galas and premieres doesn't help (although my husband and I would be willing to try).
Here's my advice for newlyweds Paul McCartney and Heather Mills, whose ceremony at an Irish castle made international headlines: The marriage is the thing. The rest is just showbiz.
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Ok, I mainly posted this peice because of Robin Givins.
(getting on my soapbox)....
HOW THE FREAK YOU GONNA MARRY SOMEBODY THAT MORNING, BUT THEN SEPERATE FROM THEM LATER THAT DAY??

Your feeling did not change that quick. If you kow from the jump that you are not ready, then don't get married!!!
(stepping off my soapbox)....