Celebrity marriages – Marriage is one of the oldest social institutions in human culture: the economic contract between two patriarchs, one with a teenage daughter he is tired of having to feed and one with a teenage boy who can begin making more children to work the fields.
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The bride’s family pays the groom’s family a dowry to “buy” the bride, and the two families make out better than when they started; everyone wins, except for the actual bride and groom who didn’t get the choice of whom to spend the rest of their lives with. At some point, it was decided that marriage had something to do with love, God’s plan all along apparently, and the institution was re-imagined as a religious union between two people loving each other almost as much as they loved their lord.
As a country founded by pilgrims seeking religious freedom, marriage translated to the United States as an important part of our daily world. And, like everything Americans hold sacrosanct, we soon began manipulating, ruining, and perverting it for our own selfish ends. While people who actually wanted to marry for love but couldn’t, like people from different races or same sex couples, had to fight for their rights in the court system, people who didn’t actually want to marry for love were allowed to do so all the time.
Maybe two people got married to commit tax fraud or medical insurance fraud, maybe two people got married because one of them needed citizenship in a foreign country, maybe two people got married because one or both of them were hiding homosexuality, or maybe two people got married simply because they were drunk and thought at the moment it would be a crazy thing to do. If marriage has any sanctity left, here is a list of celebrities that helped to famously degrade it. These 10 marriages were allegedly shams from the start.
10. Michael Jackson and Debbie Jeanne Rowe
If you grew up in the 80s and early 90s, you knew Michael Jackson. Even if you weren’t a fan of pop music, Jackson was such an influential celebrity that his music was ubiquitous. I grew up on the West Coast of the United States, the same coast where Jackson lived, and when he flew to New York or some place we would have to set our clocks ahead an hour because he was literally the center of the pop culture universe. Debbie Rowe was one of Jackson’s nurses, helping Jackson’s doctor administer medication Jackson was taking for his skin ailments. She traveled with him on tour and, according to sources including Jackson’s first wife, he allegedly made a deal with her: marriage (the deal was that she’d receive a ton of money in a divorce suit) in exchange for children. Michael and Debbie got married when she was pregnant with Jackson’s son, and a few years later divorced after Debbie had a second child with the King of Pop. Debbie got rich, Michael got his kids, and the institute of marriage was completely disregarded.
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