The Celebrity Breakup Everyone Was Talking About the Year You Were Born
Some of these still hurt.
1967: Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow
Sinatra was 50 and Farrow 21 when they tied the knot in 1966. Their split was not nasty and the pair remained close throughout the years. Farrow brought the relationship back into the news recently when she said that her son Ronan (previously thought to be Woody Allen's son) could "possibly" be Sinatra's.
1968: Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon
Cannon was Grant's fourth wife, and their divorce and the custody battle that followed led to many salacious headlines. Following the dissolution of their marriage, Grant declared, "Once the female has used the male for procreation, she turns on him and literally devours him."
1968: Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer
Ferrer became Hepburn's first husband in 1954, then played Prince Andrei to Hepburn's Natasha Rostova in War and Peace two years later (parallels). When the pair divorced, rumors swirled that Hepburn was having an affair with Albert Finney, her co-star in Two for the Road.
1969: Lana Turner and Robert Eaton
Turner, known for The Three Musketeers, Peyton Place, and tons of old Hollywood films, was married eight times to seven different men throughout her life (she married and divorced restaurateur Stephen Crane twice), and her breakups were often fodder for gossip. Eaton, a movie producer, was her sixth husband.
1970: Barbra Streisand and Elliot Gould
Streisand and Gould met while working together on the 1962 Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale, for which Gould was the lead and Streisand was a relative unknown (who would go on to get a Tony nom for her part). Funny Girl (her), Hello, Dolly! (her), and MASH (him) came out in 1968, 1969, and 1970, and the pair were bona fide stars when they announced their separation.
1971: Natalie Wood and Richard Gregson
Wood and Gregson separated after two years of marriage following rumors that he had been unfaithful, with her secretary no less. Shortly after, Wood rekindled her relationship with her ex-husband Robert Wagner, and the pair reemerged in the public eye as a couple in 1972 at the Academy Awards. Wood and Wagner remarried that same year.
1973: Elvis and Priscilla Presley
The couple (who met when Priscilla was in ninth grade) had a long and intense relationship that ended when Priscilla told her husband that she had fallen for someone else (a karate expert named Mike Stone). News of their divorce shocked fans but the split was (mostly) amicable.
1974: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
The pair had such a tumultuous love story that Lifetime made a movie about it. This year was the end of their first marriage, so the general public didn't even know what was in store yet. Following their divorce, Burton quickly met someone else he wanted to tie the knot with, the already-married Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia. (He ultimately remarried Taylor in 1975.)
1976: Angie Dickinson and Burt Bacharach
Dickinson once said, "I'd hate it if I were a bigger star than my husband." Like with lots of these breakups, their separation was largely due to cracks that came from the ebb and flow of fame. Dickinson and Bacharach announced their separation this year but weren't officially divorced until 1981.
1977: Ike and Tina Turner
In 1976, after being the victim of abuse for many years, Tina left Ike after a huge fight, carrying just 36 cents and a Mobil credit card. Although the pair made great music together, this was a huge moment of liberation for Tina. Their divorce was dragged out and not finalized until 1978.
1978: Bianca and Mick Jagger
Tabloids were already reporting on Mick and Jerry Hall as a couple when Bianca filed for divorce this year. Mick had had many rumored affairs already; meanwhile Bianca was trying to jump-start a career, and all the resulting strife, along with Hall, led to their split.
1980: Burt Reynolds and Sally Field
This is Reynolds's second appearance on this list and he was at this point more cemented in fame. Field herself had just won her Oscar for Norma Rae. Although their romance lit up the tabloids, it puttered out, like most romances do — although the New York Times noted in a 1981 profile of Reynolds that Field still hung out at his home after their "much-publicized 'breakup.'" You know a romance is juicy if it's getting shade from the Times.
1981: Tom Selleck and Jacqueline Ray
Ready for another hunk with a mustache? Selleck was making a name for himself as the hot star of Magnum P.I. this year, but he was also dealing with being separated from his actress wife, a fact that just had to be mentioned in all his splashy profiles at the time.
1984: Carrie Fisher and Paul Simon
Fisher's star shined bright after she played Princess Leia in Star Wars and Simon was a music sensation by the time the two tied the knot in 1983. When they split, Fisher's drug addiction was blamed in part. But in her book, Wishful Drinking, Fisher wrote, "So Paul and I have a passionate relationship with a lot of words, big words, clever words, uh-oh, the words got mean, so we get divorced."
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