Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian
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Duration: August 2011-December 2011 (72 days)
In American pop culture, she is the person Most Famous for Being Famous. And her wedding was televised for all to see. Kim Kardashian entered wedded bliss with New Jersey Nets power forward Kris Humphries, which was actually her second set of nuptials (she married producer Damon Thomas in 2000 and divorced him in 2004). The ceremony was in August and many in the media called it a marriage made for television. As it turns out, their marriage didn’t even last as long as Cop Rock. Citing the Hollywood standard, irreconcilable differences, Kardashian not only filed for divorce after 72 days, but petitioned the court to order Humphries to pay his own legal bills. Humphries responded by petitioning for an annulment based on fraud, or at least a legal separation.
Next: Shaquille and Shaunie O'Neal
Shaquille and Shaunie O’Neal
Duration: 2002-2009
Without high-profile sports splits, we wouldn’t have guilty-pleasure entertainment like Basketball Wives, which was created by Shaquille O’Neal’s ex-wife Shaunie. She, of course, is now more famous four parlaying her split with the four-time NBA champion and TNT comentator into a reality show starring other former spouses and girlfriends of basketball players.
O’Neal, the seven-foot center who spent his NBA career between several teams, and his wife were married the day after Christmas in 2002, and their union produced four children. (Shaq also had a daughter from a previous relationship.) But as both would admit in later interviews, stardom and temptation became the same toxic combination it is for any celebrity marriage. They separated in 2007, but tried to patch things up. But before long, they both knew it was over. The two divorced in 2009 settling for an undisclosed, but reportedly substantial, amount.
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