Clint Eastwood
He may have been a Hollywood star, but being a partner was not something Clint Eastwood excelled at. He’d been married to his wife just over a year when Eastwood got another woman pregnant. The actor was blissfully unaware of the consequences of his actions, and his subsequent daughter was given up for adoption. There’s so much more we could go into, but frankly, there are too many of Eastwood’s misdemeanours to cover here.
Clark Gable
Clark Gable was married to his acting coach, but he slept with several people, both men and women, to aid his rise to fame. He split up with his wife due to him sleeping around but soon married an older, wealthy heiress. This marriage ended fairly quickly too, despite her wanting to stay together and Gable remarried just days after the divorce was finalised. Gable truly loved his third wife Carole Lombard and did not feel the need to increase his fame after his role as Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind, but Lombard died in a plane crash. While he remarried twice more and wanted children, Gable fell ill and passed away before his son was born.
John Wayne
Famous actor John Wayne not only spent no time around his wife once they were married, but he went on to betray her. Wayne fell in love with his co-star Marlene Dietrich and lived a double life to juggle multiple relationships. He dabbled with other Hollywood starlets as well and despite having four children, eventually left his wife. He later had two more failed marriages and just couldn’t seem to balance Hollywood life with a family. Talk about a terrible husband!
Ryan O’Neal
Ryan O’Neal was married to actress Joanna Moore. Though they were viewed as a golden couple of Hollywood, O’Neal was terrible to her in private, neglecting both her and their two children. Once Moore left him, O’Neal got remarried, but his new wife complained about his temper and they ended up splitting too. Later O’Neal developed a drug problem, and his dealer sexually assaulted his daughter Tatum. An awful father as well as an awful husband, O’Neal blamed Tatum for the assault and kept using the dealer. He ended up abandoning his daughter and continued to cheat on future partners.
Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda first married Margaret Sullavan and due to differences in nature, the two often clashed emotionally. The marriage ended after just two meagre months. When Fonda remarried, he fathered two children and did try his best in the marriage, but he never told his family he loved them and had a long affair with another woman who was two decades his junior. When his ex-wife died by suicide, he lied to his children saying the cause was heart failure, and did not allow his children to attend her funeral, either. Bad parenting to the max!
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sammy Davis Jr. offered Loray White money to marry her with the explicit plan to divorce after a year. Davis then physically abused White on their wedding night, attempting to choke her when he’d had too much to drink. They divorced as planned, then Davis remarried but an affair ended this one too. He got heavily into booze and drugs and ended up marrying once again. He forced his third wife into several sexual acts and said he only married her to please his black fans who wanted him to be with a black woman.
Eddie Fisher
Fisher had one of the most famous affairs in Hollywood history. Though he was married to Debbie Reynolds (with whom he fathered Carrie Fisher), he did not remain loyal. When famous actress Elizabeth Taylor’s husband died, Fisher decided to help comfort her in his own way, and soon left Reynolds for her. However, Taylor suffered violence at Fisher’s hands and left him for Richard Burton in 1964. Fisher’s next two marriages ended in divorce, while his fifth and final wife died nine years before he did.
Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart had been married to Mayo Methot (his third wife) when, aged 44, he started an illicit affair with 19-year-old Lauren Bacall. They met while filming To Have And Have Not, and though the director tried to end their relationship, Bogart ended up leaving his wife for Bacall. The two stayed together until Bogart passed away, but being left for a 19 year old must have been a sting for Methot.
Cary Grant
Cary Grant was not great at marriage, having already been wed twice before tying the knot with Betsy Drake. She was set to star in the film Houseboat with him, but when Grant began his affair with Italian actress Sophia Loren, he had the script rewritten to include Loren instead of Drake. To make things worse, Drake actually wrote the original script as well, and never got credited for it. Grant was ice cold, but his affair with Loren didn’t last and his subsequent marriage to Dyan Cannon also ended in divorce.
Errol Flynn
Errol Flynn was known throughout Hollywood for his love of alcohol, drugs, and women. He was married several times throughout his life, but none of those marriages prevented him from enjoying other women on the side. He was even accused of statutory rape on more than one account. While filming Cuban Rebel Girls, he had an affair with co-star Beverley Aadland while she was only 15, but this did not come to light until Flynn had passed away.
Mickey Rooney
It’s not that Mickey Rooney was the worst husband in the world, but there’s a lot he could have done differently. He pursued his wife Ava Gardner endlessly until she relented and agreed to marry him. Soon after the marriage both Rooney and Gardner began to drink a lot and Rooney was apparently mean when he did. For a time, Gardner was incredibly ill and in hospital. During this period, Rooney was far from a loving husband and cheated on his wife in their own bed. His infidelity lead to their divorce.
Anthony Ray
Director Nicholas Ray and Gloria Grahame were married for some time but they had a sudden split. This is down to Nicholas’ son Anthony and his antics. Anthony Ray was having an affair with his step mother Grahame and Nicholas caught them in the act. The pair actually ended up getting married. While this doesn’t make Anthony Ray the worst husband, it does suggest some moral grey areas when it came to his marriage.
Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio was Hollywood starlet Marilyn Monroe’s second husband. Even after his wife’s tragic early death, he remained fixated on her. Though this may sound like something a good husband would do, the truth couldn’t be further from it. The pair were married nine months before they split and ended up getting back together shortly before Monroe’s death. Monroe cited “mental cruelty” as the reason for their initial divorce. DiMaggio stalked Monroe endlessly and terrorised her, both when they were together and afterwards.
Peter Sellers
Some say Peter Sellers was Hollywood’s worst husband. He was nothing like his fun acting roles and was highly manipulative and cruel in his romantic relationships. His wife Lynn Frederick got the worst of it all. Neither party really wanted to get married, but Frederick wanted to please Sellers, whose aggression and relentlessness made her situation a dangerous one. Sellers even tried to cut Frederick out of his will, but did not complete the paperwork before his death.
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty was several years his wife’s junior, with Joan Collins being four years older than him. He was only 22 when the pair first got together, and he demanded a lot from Collins in the bedroom. This was because he said he needed more sexually due to his youth, and he threatened to find fulfilment elsewhere otherwise. Rumours about Beatty being unfaithful lead to tension between them. Collins was so unhappy about her relationship with Beatty that she aborted his child while they were married.
Douglas Fairbanks Sr
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks were one of Hollywood’s golden couples. Married in 1920, they were actually one of the first couples to be dubbed such. Though they were sometimes called the King and Queen of Hollywood, the pair did not last due to Fairbanks being unfaithful. He was cheating on Pickford with Lady Sylvia Ashley.
Sean Connery
Sean Connery was not exactly a member of the Old Hollywood pioneers, but he did start his big acting career in the 50s. He is known to have said some pretty horrendous things implying his own abuse of the women in his life. While he was married to his first wife, actress Diane Cilento, people were not widely aware of the way he treated her. When she came out with her autobiography in 2006, Cilento alleged that Connery had abused her physically and verbally throughout their marriage.
Laurence Olivier
One of Hollywood’s finest actresses, Vivien Leigh, married the also uber-famous Laurence Olivier. Though they were picture perfect from the outside, Olivier was a pretty terrible husband within that relationship. Olivier apparently had violent outbursts that he sometimes took out on Leigh. There was one time where he pushed her over and she hit her head. Olivier thought he had killed her, which fortunately was not the case. Aside from this, there was also evidence of infidelity on Olivier’s part.
Mel Ferrer
Many Old Hollywood men were married to women whose careers ended up more impactful than their own, and some were not too happy about this. Mel Ferrer is one such example. He was married to Audrey Hepburn for 14 years and was said to be quite controlling of her. When they first got together, he would use his position of power and fame over Hepburn to manipulate her. He then became very jealous when Hepburn’s fame skyrocketed over his own. Though Hepburn claimed they were a happy couple, she did say Ferrer had a terrible temper.
Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy was married, just not to the woman he spent the last chunk of his life in a romantic relationship with. He and his wife Louise Treadwell had issues for many years and ended up separating – but they never got divorced, because as a lifelong Catholic, divorce was against Tracy’s religion. Still, being a husband but living separately from your wife with another woman? Clearly Tracy was not the best at marriage.
Desi Arnaz
Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball were the stars of beloved 50s sitcom I Love Lucy, and they were married off-screen as well as on. However, things weren’t always so rosy between them in real life. Arnaz was a bit of a playboy, and this did not change when he tied the knot with Ball, who came very close to divorcing him in 1944 after only four years of marriage. This didn’t make Arnaz change his ways, however, and they split for good in 1960 in the wake of further infidelity, as well as struggles with gambling and alcohol addiction.
Robert Taylor
Sometimes being a bad husband is not a dramatic occurrence. Robert Taylor would ignore his wife Barbara Stanwyck’s pleading for attention at all costs. He was somewhat neglectful as a partner, and his first affair lead to Stanwyck attempting suicide. He later had a very public affair while abroad which lead to Stanwyck flying to Italy to inform him she would be filing for divorce.
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando is a name most have heard. He was an incredibly famous actor and was married three times. Throughout all his marriages, Brando continued to have affairs with the likes of Rita Moreno and James Dean. He is known to have been abusive both verbally and physically in these relationships as well as in his marriages. He was also an alcoholic which just exacerbated this abuse.
Frank Sinatra
Most people know Frank Sinatra as the singer and musician whose voice and songs are too beautiful not to sway to. The reality of Sinatra’s wives (he had four throughout his life) was much darker than his sweet songs, though. According to his last wife Barbra, he could turn angry and aggressive at the drop of a hat. His tendency for drastic and terrifying mood swings was mentioned by more than one of his wives, as was his ability to suddenly go cold and neglectful. Others also knew Sinatra for his hot temper and violent outbursts.
Paul Newman
Actor Paul Newman had a terrible drinking problem to the extent that it lead to a divorce. His addiction lead to him acting violent around his wife Joanne Woodward and their children. It wasn’t all happy movies with the couple starring across from one another. While alcoholism is a disease, letting his outbursts get to the point his family was afraid was on Newman.
Tony Curtis
Famous actor Tony Curtis was married to even more famous actress Janet Leigh. This is one of the reasons he was a very paranoid husband, as he was always worried that his wife would be off with some other man. In spite of this, he was the one actually cheating constantly. They split in 1962, and Curtis’ subsequent four marriages all ended in divorce, although his sixth wife Jill Vanderburg stayed with him to the end of his life.
Mel Brooks
A comedian, yes, but also a troubled and toxic man. Mel Brooks used his comedic act to deceive people about the kind of man he really was. While married to his first wife, Florence Baum, Brooks could not seem to stop himself from sleeping with other women all the while. He was also known to mock and belittle others, from the women in his life to other famous Hollywood stars.
Harry James
Though trumpeter Harry James was married to Betty Grable for over 20 years, their relationship could not be described as a happy one. James slept with a large number of other people during their relationship and apparently was not picky about who those other people were. Things were so bad that James stole all of Grable’s money right before she died, leaving her without enough to even pay her medical bills.
William Holden
William Holden was the husband of Brenda Marshall for nearly 30 full years. Their marriage was not all sunshine and roses though. The couple split up several times over that 30 year period, largely because of Holden’s own actions. He had several affairs over the years, including one with Audrey Hepburn.
Orson Welles
There are many people who would have killed (possibly literally) to be in Orson Welles’ place, married to the famous Rita Hayworth. Though he was a famous director himself, he and his wife could not have been more different. Welles was brought up wealthy and was thus incredibly confident in himself. Welles’ behaviour was described as “erratic”. He would either shower his wife in praise and gifts or neglect her and his family, sometimes just leaving to go travelling for months at a time. He was notoriously unreliable.
Burt Lancaster
Famous actor Burt Lancaster was beloved by many people in the industry, but he wasn’t exactly the most faithful husband. There were rumours about Lancaster flying around Hollywood. He attended scandalous parties, had affairs outside of his marriage, and was even involved with other men.
Gregory Peck
It’s not that Gregory Peck did anything exceptionally heinous, but when you think about what is expected of a husband, he was not the best at filling that role. Peck had two wives in his life. During his first marriage to Greta Kukkonen, Peck cheated on her with his co-star. Peck and Ingrid Bergman starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound together, but they did a lot more than that too.
Gary Cooper
Everyone in Hollywood wanted to be a little more like Gary Cooper. His relationship with his wife Veronica Balfe was also a point of envy for many others. Their life was far from perfect, though. At the ripe age of 47, Gary Cooper starred opposite 21-year-old actress Patricia Neal. He ended up having an affair with her and actually got the young woman pregnant. It’s no wonder that Balfe was rather upset and confronted Cooper over it.
Robert Wagner
Robert Wagner is a famous actor and one of the few Old Hollywood stars who is still alive today. Though he was married several times over, that’s more a sign that the man is not great at marriage rather than it being a special skill of his. Wagner was a serial cheater, cheating on his wives with famous actresses. Worse yet, Wagner is heavily suspected of being responsible for the drowning death of wife Natalie Wood, although investigators did not find enough evidence to prove this.
Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly was known for his upbeat performances in Hollywood movies such as Singin’ In The Rain, but that’s not all he got up to. Kelly was married three times, and there’s a reason two of those marriages didn’t work out. The actor was known for being egotistical and having constant desires for younger women. Even while married, Kelly would flirt with the younger women he worked with. Those he did not desire intimately were faced with constant criticism, which sometimes included his wives.
Kirk Douglas
The thing about Kirk Douglas’ marriages that set them apart from others was that his second wife Anne Buydens (who stayed with him until he died aged 103, before dying herself a year later aged 102) was well aware of his many affairs and dalliances. His first wife, Diana Dill, was lot less happy about Douglas’ cheating ways, so it’s not wonder they called it quits.
John Barrymore
Like many on this list, John Barrymore was a famous actor who had several wives across his lifetime. He was reportedly easily bored in each of his marriages which did not make him a great husband. When Barrymore was around 40, he had an affair with his co-star Mary Aston – despite the fact that she was aged only 17 at the time.
Fatty Arbuckle
Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle was a Hollywood actor, director and producer who was known by his nickname “Fatty”. He was married three times and cheated on all his wives on numerous occasions, but that’s not the worst of what Arbuckle did. He is known to have sexually assaulted several women, most notably Virginia Rappe who died of complications afterwards.
Robert Mitchum
Robert Mitchum and Dorothy Spence were madly in love and married for over 50 years. In spite of this, Mitchum continued to have other affairs, most notably one long affair with Shirley MacLaine. This caused great distress for Spence, and Mitchum (to his credit) ended up leaving MacLaine for this very reason. The marriage recovered, but this doesn’t make Mitchum’s earlier actions less reprehensible.
Bob Hope
Actor Bob Hope was married for a whopping 69 years. While some might say that this is a sign of true loyalty, things couldn’t have been further from the truth. He was known for the large number of affairs he had in Hollywood. Hope even had a 30-year-long affair with beauty queen Rosemarie Frankland.
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn rose to fame when he starred in Viva Zapata across from Marlon Brando in 1952. He was married three times and did not seem to be all that good at the marriage thing. This is evident as his marriages never once stopped him from sleeping with Hollywood starlets. He had affairs with a large number of big-name Hollywood ladies, which is some kind of feat, even if it’s not ideal from a wife’s perspective.
Steve McQueen
Like many of the men on this list, Steve McQueen was married three times. This in and of itself shows that something McQueen was doing in his marriages wasn’t working. Like with many other Old Hollywood marriages, Steve McQueen continued to have affairs with other women while he was married. He also encouraged some of the women he had affairs with to try illicit drugs with him.
Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby is one of those Hollywood men that ended up on every side of bad relationships. He started an affair with Grace Kelly after he began seeing his second wife and continued the relationship on for some time. He continued this affair even after he proposed and ended up postponing his wedding because of Grace Kelly. Though it obviously was not intended as karma, Crosby was later devastated to find Kelly cheating on him with another man.
Brian Aherne
Brian Aherne was married to Joan Fontaine, but they divorced in part due to Fontaine being unfaithful to her husband. Aherne did go on to have an affair with Hollywood star Marlene Dietrich while he was still married to his second wife though, so he wasn’t really any better than his wife in regards to staying faithful.
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong is much better known for his music than for his time in Hollywood, but his connections to Hollywood through friendship and due to the overlap in the arts means he still counts as one of them. Many unfaithful husbands cheat and then blame their wives for their own infidelity. Though Armstrong also cheated on his wives, he at least admitted that he was to blame for these instances.
Albert Dekker
It’s not that Albert Dekker was truly a terrible husband, partially because he never married the woman he was engaged to at the time of his death. He hid some of his secret desires from everyone in his life and when he was found hung by a leather belt in 1968, it was originally just labelled a suicide. However, given additional evidence, his death seemed related to BDSM practices which his fiancée never knew about. Furthermore, given the writing left on his skin and toys hidden in his house, it seems unlikely that his death was purely a result of his own actions. If someone else was involved, who they are remains unknown.
Robert Blake
Actor Robert Blake was known for his role in the film In Cold Blood, amongst others. Blake’s issue as a husband was not due to infidelity, but due to being tried for the murder of his own wife. He was charged with the murder in 2002, but was later acquitted in 2005. That does not make him completely innocent though, since he was still considered liable for her death and was made to pay $30 million as a result.
Terrence Howard
One restraining order was not enough for Terrence Howard. It took two for his ex-wife to successfully keep him at bay. Howard has become known less for his acting and more for his reputation of beating many of his girlfriends and wives over the years. Though Howard has claimed he is very sorry for his actions, that can never make up for the abuse he subjected these women to.
Kevin Hart
The thing about Kevin Hart’s toxicity as a marriage partner is that he told on himself. In his memoir, Hart ends up revealing his own domestic violence and infidelity in past relationships. He even reveals how he ended up spending the night in jail because of how bad some of his arguments with his ex-wife Torrei got.
Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen is unfortunately yes another actor with a reputation for violence against women alongside plenty of other unpleasant behaviour. Sheen was charged with assaulting his wife with a knife and has been known to harass, abuse, and assault both his wife and other women on several occasions. Though he maintains that every allegation against him is a lie, there seems to be too many and too much concrete evidence against him to accept that.
Sean Penn
Sean Penn is yet another actor in Hollywood who is known to be responsible for some level of domestic violence concerning his past wives. Penn was married to pop star Madonna back in the late 1980s and was violent towards her during that relationship. Though both Penn and Madonna deny that he ever fully attacked her with a baseball bat, he is known to have locked her in a room, tell her he owned her, and beat her. He has also been charged with the assault of other women while in marriages with other women.
Mel Gibson
Many people are aware of Mel Gibson’s despicable behaviour regarding his antisemitism and homophobic comments he has made. Gibson has also been accused of alleged domestic violence by his past partners. His lack of self-control and indecent behaviour towards past partners means that many believe he should not get another job in Hollywood.
Johnny Depp
The thing about Johnny Depp is that he has denied all allegations of violence. After a trial between him and ex-wife Amber Heard in Great Britain, he was found guilty of domestic violence. From horrific messages about Heard found on his devices to attempting to use her nude images to blackmail and silence her, Depp proved himself to be an unpleasant husband at best.
George C Scott
George C Scott was married twice and did not treat either wife well. He was known to beat both his spouses and in his relationship with Ava Gardner, he was violent enough that he permanently damaged her retina. This kind of violence was met with criticism from Frank Sinatra, who was the father of Gardner’s children, but did not get Scott completely ostracized either.
Jesse James
Mostly known as ex-husband to world-famous actress Sandra Bullock, Jesse James is hardly a perfect man. He is a serial cheater who cheated on all his past partners, thus ruining perfectly good relationships. James places these actions on his own childhood trauma, but that’s hardly taking responsibility for his actions.
Alec Baldwin
It is widely known that Alec Baldwin has not been the best person to work with in Hollywood. He is also known to verbally abuse his daughter at times. The same goes for his marital partner. Though Baldwin says he didn’t think he was capable of such vile actions, it hasn’t stopped his overwhelmingly negative feelings about his ex-wife from being expressed only too clearly.
Josh Brolin
When Josh Brolin married Diane Lane, it only took four months for the first accusations of domestic violence to arise. Lane herself did not choose to press charges in the end, but the physical abuse was evident and fairly severe so he was taken into custody nonetheless. Brolin was also known for his outbursts of anger in other situations such as at bars and even at work, occasionally.
Dennis Hopper
Hopper was married not once, not three times, but five times to five different women and he was not particularly lovely to any of them. He admitted to punching one of his wives repeatedly for doing something he did not like. On his deathbed, Hopper wrote his last wife out of his will and admitted his disdain for her, despite their 18-year-long relationship.
Tom Cruise
There are a lot of things Tom Cruise has done that tend to get skipped over by fans and the press alike. One of these has been attempting to manipulate his partners into following Scientology, which seems evident in his marriage to Katie Holmes as well as his other marriages. Cruise wanted his partners to be demure wives who joined him in Scientology rather than equal, confident partners.
Don Johnson
Don Johnson got into a relationship with Melanie Griffith when she was only 14 years old and he was 22. The pair actually did end up married on two separate occasions, the first time on Griffith’s 18th birthday after she had been living with Johnson since the age of 15. This alone is enough to consider Johnson a pretty terrible husband.
Richard Harris
Richard Harris, one of Hollywood’s biggest hellraisers, was temporarily tamed when he met Ann Turkel in 1974. They married the same year and remained so until 1982 when Turkel decided she’d had enough of Harris’ notoriously heavy drinking and volatile outbursts. “In the end, it got to the point where I was walking on eggshells every time I woke up. I just couldn’t go on with it,” Ann said recently. Harris insisted they get divorced in the Bahamas ( where he had a home ) rather than in California, where a wife can be entitled to half of her husband’s assets.
Harry Morgan
M*A*S*H star Harry Morgan was charged with beating his wife in 1996. The charge was only dropped in 1997 when Morgan agreed to attend anger management classes. He avoided serving any jail time whatsoever. He remained married to Barbara Quine until his death in 2011.
James Caan
James Caan was married four times over the course of his turbulent life and career. Infamous in his day for being addicted to cocaine and prostitutes, The Godfather actor was also accused of beating up his ex-wife and ex-girlfriend, with the later charge being made in 1995 when Caan was 54. Outside of that, he once drew a gun on a rapper in North Hollywood and lived at the Playboy Mansion for a time with his son Scott, who was instructed to fetch women for his father.
Dudley Moore
British comedy legend, two-time Tony Award winner and star of Arthur, Dudley Moore was not exactly one for bad headlines. That was, until 1994 when he was arrested for suspicion of domestic abuse against Nicole Rothschild. She eventually declined to press charges and the couple divorced three years later. Moore’s legacy was not ruined by this but it left a sour taste in many fans’ mouths.
Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds and Lori Anderson’s divorce was one the messiest and most chaotic in Hollywood history. Anderson later released a tell-all book in which she detailed Burt’s penchant for abusive behaviour. “Burt shoved me all around the room, then threw me to the floor and opened the drawer and got out a loaded gun,” Anderson wrote. “He handed me the gun and told me to shoot myself and do us all a favor. I was terrified.” On another occasion, he threw a chair at their nanny.
Woody Allen
It’s difficult to understand why Woody Allen and Mia Farrow were ever together as long as they were. Even as a couple, they lived in different apartments on opposite sides of Manhattan’s Central Park. When Farrow wanted to have a baby in 1984, Allen only agreed on the basis he didn’t have to look after it. Then, finally, to make matters just that little bit worse, Allen began an affair with Farrow’s adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, which she learned of after finding naked photos of Previn in Allen’s apartment.
Steven Seagal
Seagal’s ex-wife Kelly LeBrock accused him of domestic violence after their divorce in 1996. The couple shares three children but is estranged. Seagal spends most of his time in Russia, where he positioned himself as staunchly pro-Putin. “I think he’s a very sad person and he’s what I would call a Hollywood tragedy,” LeBrock told Page Six. “I think he was very bullied as a kid, very sickly, very weak, and I suspect that people who were treated like this in childhood lose themselves as they age.”
Mickey Rourke
Mickey met model Carré Otis on the set of the 1989 film Wild Orchid. At the time, Rourke was still hot property and Otis found his allure hard to resist. They married in 1992, but divorced by 1998 amidst claims that Rourke had been abusive. In 2011, Otis’ memoir Beauty Disrupted gave further detail on how Rourke treated her. “There was abuse, and there was enough of abuse to call it abuse. My story is the same as so many women’s stories,” she wrote. “What made it different for me was that I was married to a celebrity.”
Gary Busey
Gary Busey married Tiani Warden in a fairytale wedding in September 1996, but their five-year-union was a disaster, mainly thanks to Busey’s alleged abuse. “Things got very ugly, very fast,” Warden said of a time she had refused to sleep with Busey. “He forcibly grabbed me and tried to take off my clothes. When I tried to get away, he pounced on me like an animal and pulled me to the ground. The more I fought, the more violent he became. This beating could have sent me to my grave.”
Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage married Alice Kim in 2004. They split in 2012, one year after Cage was arrested in New Orleans and charged with domestic abuse, disturbing the peace and public drunkenness after an altercation with Kim in the French Quarter. Cage allegedly pushed Kim outside of a tattoo shop before punching some nearby cars. A subsequent girlfriend of Cage, Vickie Park, has also claimed the actor was abusive towards her.
