12 Celebrities Who Got Divorced the Most: Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor and More

Elizabeth Taylor was married to seven men in the eight weddings she had in her lifetime.

In 1950, then-18-year-old Taylor wed Conrad Hilton Jr. but called it quits eight months later. She then married Michael Wilding, but they split in 1956 and divorced in 1957.

Taylor wed Mike Todd, who died in a plane crash in 1958, before moving on with Eddie Fisher. She divorced the singer in 1964 and married Richard Burton after 10 days.

Although Taylor and Burton divorced in 1974, they remarried in 1975 and split again in 1976. The same year, she married John Warner and divorced in 1992.

She tied the knot with her eighth and final husband, Larry Fortensky, in 1991, but they divorced in 1996.

In 1942, Mickey Rooney married his first wife, Ava Gardner, only to end their marriage the following year. He then wed Betty Jane Phillips but divorced her in 1949.

His subsequent marriages were to Martha Vickers (1949 to 1951), Elaine Mahnken (1952 to 1958), Barbara Ann Thomason, Carolyn Hockett(1969 to 1975) and Jan Chamberlin.

Rooney’s second marriage to Chamberlin lasted until he died in 2014.

Of ‘s nine marriages, seven ended with divorce and one with an annulment.

She married Burhan Asaf Belge, a Turkish politician, in 1935 but divorced him in 1945. She then wed Conrad Hilton from 1942 to 1947 before marrying and calling it quits with George Sanders after their marriage, which lasted from 1949 to 1954.

Gabor’s next husbands were Herbert Hunter (1962 to 1966), Joshua S. Cosden Jr. (1966 to 1967), Jack Ryan (1975 to 1976) and Michael O’Hara (1976 to 1983).

On April 13, 1983, she married Felipe de Alba, but the union was annulled the following day as her divorce from O’Hara was not yet finalized.

Gabor’s last husband was Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, whom she wed in 1986.

In 1952, Larry King wed Freda Miller, though their parents annulled their marriage.

King moved on with his second wife, Annette Kaye, but they split in 1961. The radio host married Alene Akins for the first time in the same year, but they divorced in 1963.

King married Mickey Sutphin in 1964 but divorced her in 1967 before tying the knot with Akins again. After his second divorce from the latter, he married Sharon Lepore (1976 to 1983) and Julia Alexander (1990 to 1992).

Larry and Southwick King got back together and married in 1997. However, the late star filed for divorce from her in 2019.

Ben Folds’ first marriage was to his childhood sweetheart, Anna Goodman, but it only lasted from 1987 to 1991. His next failed marriages were to Kate Rosen (1996 to 1997), Frally Hynes (1999 to 2006), Fleur Stanbrook (2007 to 2011) and Emma Sandall (2017).

Bad Santa actor Billy Bob Thornton was first married to Melissa Lee Gatlin from 1978 to 1980. He married Toni Lawrence afterward before tying the knot with Cynda Williams (1990 to 1992) and Pietra Dawn Cherniak.

Thornton married his fifth wife, Angelina Jolie, in 2000 but divorced in 2003.

He has been with his sixth wife, Connie Angland, since 2014.

Less than two months after they met on New Year’s Eve of 1994, Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee tied the knot on February 19, 1995. They ultimately divorced in 1998, paving the way for the model to marry — and divorce — four other men.

Anderson married Kid Rock in July 2006 but divorced him in November 2006. Her next marriage was to Rick Salomon, from 2007 to 2008 and from 2014 to 2015.

She has not been married since her 2022 divorce from Dan Hayhurst, whom she wed on Christmas Eve in 2020.