Longtime celebrity couples who have shockingly called it quits after decades together

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Marriages in the entertainment world often end, but when a couple who seem to be beating the odds call it a day, it’s just different. Wonderwall.com summarizes the shocking Hollywood breakups that have happened after a couple has been together for a decade or more, beginning with this divorce… The late Hollywood legend Jerry Lewis had a 35-year relationship with his first wife, singer Patti Palmer . The couple shared six children – all boys, five by birth and one they adopted together. Despite their seemingly happy union, after their split in 1980, the truth about their marriage came to light. In 2011, Jerry himself opened up about his affairs with Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich and shed light on why Patti was the one filing for divorce.

Read on for more couples who have thrown in the towel after long marriages…

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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver married in 1986 and became a Hollywood power couple. They welcomed four children together, but shocked the world when they announced their split in May 2011. The same month they announced their split, news broke that Arnold had fathered a child with one of their domestic workers, shedding light on the real cause of the death of their 25-year marriage.

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Clint Eastwood’s first marriage to Maggie Johnson was incredibly lengthy by Hollywood standards. The couple married in 1953, had two children and remained married for 31 years before separating. But in retrospect, it becomes clear why the partnership fell apart: Clint fathered two children outside of marriage during their time together.

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Clint Eastwood’s second marriage was also a long one, surprisingly ending in 2013 after 17 years. In 1996 he married news anchor Dina Ruiz; They welcomed his youngest child, daughter Morgan, that same year. The couple surprisingly had a reality show on E!, “Mrs. Eastwood & Company, which debuted in 2012 and followed Dina’s life — and their marriage actually ended when the series aired. The couple actually quietly split in 2012, with Clint reportedly getting angry over the reality show and the airing of his normally private life. He was then reportedly contacted by Erica Fisher, the ex-wife of Scott Fisher, one of Dina’s high school friends. Erica was concerned that Dina and Scott had recently formed a close friendship, and unfortunately the real drama began when the cameras stopped rolling: Clint reportedly started dating Erica when his marriage to Dina was ending. Dina married Scott in 2016.

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The reality TV curse strikes again? Hulk Hogan married Linda Claridge in 1983. The couple welcomed daughter Brooke and son Nick during their marriage and began appearing on a VH1 reality show Hogan Knows Best in 2005. The show ran for two years and the same year it ended, so did their 24-year association. Linda filed for divorce in 2007 and later revealed that she suspected Hulk was having an affair at the time of their split.

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Two members of the band Sonic Youth had a very long marriage in the world of rock ‘n’ roll. Singer/guitarist Thurston Moore and singer/bassist Kim Gordon married in 1984. Ten years later, they welcomed daughter Coco. They were married for 27 years – until Thurston had an affair with an art book editor 20 years his junior, which torpedoed his marriage in 2011. Their divorce was finalized in 2013. Kim later told ELLE, “We seemed to have a normal relationship in a crazy world. And indeed, it ended up in a kind of normal way — midlife crisis, woman star-struck.”

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Kris Jenner and Caitlyn Jenner married in 1991 and appeared to be committed when their reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians debuted in 2007. Viewers followed their happy family — they shared daughters Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner, and Caitlyn served as a stepfather to Kris’ four children from a previous marriage — on E! for six years before announcing their surprise split in 2013. Their divorce was finalized in 2015, and shortly thereafter, Caitlyn publicly came out as a trans woman.

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Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale were a match made in rock ‘n’ roll heaven. The musically and genetically gifted duo dated for nearly 20 years before ending their relationship. After nearly 13 years of marriage and three sons together, the couple got caught in the middle of a nanny cheating scandal and went their separate ways in 2015.

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Harrison Ford’s second marriage to screenwriter Melissa Mathison lasted 17 years. Two of his four children came from this union, which began in 1983. They separated in 2000, although their divorce was not finalized until 2004. Melissa walked away with one of the largest divorce settlements in Hollywood history at the time — reportedly $85 million according to Forbes. She died of cancer in 2015.

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Chris Rock and Malaak Compton-Rock, who said “yes” in 1996 and gave birth to two children, had been married for 20 years when they pulled the plug in 2014. Chris later admitted he cheated on three wives during his two-decade marriage.

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Although they never married, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins had a very long relationship that began in the late ’80s. The duo moved in together in 1988 after meeting on the set of Bull Durham and had two children – sons John and Miles (she also had daughter Eva with Italian filmmaker Franco Amurri before dating Tim). They went their separate ways in 2009 after 21 years together, shocking Hollywood.

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Next up is a breakup that rocked the reality world! Nine years after the debut of their hit TLC show Little People, Big World, stars Matt Roloff and Amy Roloff announced their shocking split. The couple met at a Little People of America convention in 1987 and married that same year and went on to have four children together. They announced their divorce in 2015 and finalized things the following year – with the cameras rolling on afterwards.

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Anthony Hopkins’ second marriage reportedly came after an affair he had during his first. He married Jennifer Lynton in 1973, a year after separating from his first wife. He and Jennifer were married for 29 long years. They never had children. The duo reportedly grew apart after moving between the UK and Hollywood, and Jennifer eventually chose to stay in England.

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The news that Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet’s marriage was ending rocked Hollywood in January 2022. The couple had been together for 16 years — since Jason met the actress at a jazz club — and married four when they revealed that they would end their romance. during which they welcomed two children together.

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The country music world was stunned when legend Reba McEntire and manager Narvel Blackstock divorced in 2015 after 26 years of marriage. They married in 1989 and gave birth to their only child, racing driver Shelby Blackstock, a year later. Reba later revealed the split wasn’t her choice.

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Robert Redford’s first marriage to Lola Van Wagenen lasted almost three decades. They married in 1958 and welcomed four children together before eventually divorcing in 1985. The couple notoriously kept their relationship very private and never discussed the reason for their split.

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Bravo fans watched Erika Jayne and Tom Girardi’s sweet relationship on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for years. This meant the news that they were ending things in November 2020 after 21 years of marriage – they married in 1999 after meeting at a restaurant where Erika worked as a waitress – came as a shock to many. The reason for their split became a little clearer a month later when it was revealed that Tom and his law firm were in serious financial trouble.

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Captain & Tennille weren’t just a successful music group – they were a power couple in the music world for 39 years. Daryl Dragon and Toni Tennille married in 1974 and a year later their song “Love Will Keep Us Together” reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and later won a Grammy for Record of the Year. Their surprise split came in 2014 over intimacy issues, Toni told the Today show. “Sex is not love, sex is not intimacy,” she said. “He just couldn’t be loving, he couldn’t just hug me. … And I don’t blame him because he came from a very, very difficult family and had a famous but overbearing father,” she continued. Referring to conductor and composer Carmen Dragon, he added, “He was brought up very differently from me. None of that is his fault.”

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In Hollywood, reaching nearly two decades of marriage seems like an impossible feat. Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas almost made it, but fell back a few years when they announced their surprise split in 2014, 18 years after their wedding.

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Morgan Freeman’s second marriage lasted almost three decades but ended unexpectedly in 2007. He was married to Myrna Colley-Lee from 1984 – shortly after the end of his first marriage – until their divorce was finalized in 2010.

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Some couples just seem meant to be together — like Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan. Their fairytale romance began on the set of Step Up in 2006 and resulted in a 12-year relationship that came to a surprising end in 2018 when the couple called it quits after nine years of marriage and one child together, daughter Everly.