After Pamela Anderson’s latest split from Paris Hilton-sex-tape-star Rick Salomon, I started seeing her name pop up again in all of the celebrity gossip blogs, linked to several different new men. All I could think was “stop the madness!” This, of course, is the woman who has been married three times (longest marriage - three years) and engaged several other times. The whole thing got me wondering about the shortest celebrity marriages on record. I think we’ve come up with a pretty comprehensive list of the quickest unions and separations in Hollywood history. Here ya go:

• Robert Evans and Catherine Oxenberg - he was old (68) and she was not (36); they split after 12 days of marriage
• Ali Landry and Mario Lopez - this acting couple dated for six years and separated after two weeks of marriage
• Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds -they dated after Murphy broke up with Scary Spice, then married on an island in the Pacific on New Year’s Day; they acknowledged that the marriage wasn’t legal and planned to have a legal ceremony in L.A.; it never happened, they split two weeks later
• R. Kelly and the late Aaliyah - the singers were married for less than three months before the union was annulled due to Aaliyah’s age (15)
• Janet Jackson and James DeBarge - the young Miss Jackson was secretly married to DeBarge for four months
  
• Nicky Hilton and Todd Meister - married in Vegas, this marriage was annulled after four months
• Charlie Sheen and Donna Peele - this lasted four months; Sheen has married and divorced since and is now engaged again
• Colin Farrell and Amelia Warner - these two co-starred in a movie and were married for four months
• Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney - an odd couple, this marriage was annulled after four months

Oh yeah, there’s more… Continue reading "The Shortest Celebrity Marriages Ever"

Travis Barker of the band Blink 182 and former Miss USA, Shana Moakler, were married in October 2004. After the parties married the couple gained popularity in their own reality show on MTV, “Meet The Barkers.” In August 2006, Barker filed for divorce, and the two were public about the fact that their relationship was not working out. In a much publicized MySpace blog, Barker accused Moakler of being an inattentive mother, caring only about partying and not parenting. Moakler, on the other hand, accused Barker of being unfaithful. In November 2006, Moakler even threw heself a “divorce party” at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

Surprisingly, Barker and Moakler reconciled in March 2007 and Barker withdrew his divorce petition. However, recently it has been reported that the parties have again decided to split and Maokler has moved out of the family home. It is not known whether either party has refiled for divorce.

Many people believe that infidelity, such as Moakler accused Barker of, is relevant to a divorce proceeding. In some states it is, but in California, there is “no fault” divorce, which means that whether a spouse has been unfaithful is not relevant to the divorce and will not affect the division of property or support. So, Moakler’s accusations that Barker had an affair during the marriage will not be relevant to their divorce case.

However, Barker’s accusations that Moakler has poor parenting skills will be relvant to custody and visitation of the parties two children, Landon and Alabama. In a divorce, if the Court found that Moakler lacked sufficient parenting skills and that it was not in the best interests of the children to be in Molaker’s care the majority of time, Moakler’s visitation time could be severly limited and Barker could be granted primiary physical custody of the children.