Stars Who Married Their Alleged Mistresses

Not every Hollywood romance plays out like a fairy tale. In fact, many stars' current relationships were the result of affairs that played out in the tabloids. Let's take a look at some stars who married their alleged mistresses.

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt's Hollywood romance turned into the biggest celebrity scandal of the new millennium after Pitt allegedly shacked up with Angelina Jolie while filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 2004. Even after Aniston and Pitt divorced, Pitt and Jolie played coy about their relationship, insisting they did not hook up until after the movie came out.

That all changed in 2008, when Pitt and Jolie admitted to falling in love on set in separate interviews with Rolling Stone and The New York Times, respectively. Despite a whirlwind romance that included multiple children and a whole lot of publicity, Brangelina waited until August 2014 to tie the knot. They did so in a private ceremony at their chateau in France.

Pitt's second marriage blew up just as suddenly as his first. At the time of this writing, divorce proceedings are ongoing.

Eddie Cibrian and LeAnn Rimes reportedly began their romance while filming the Lifetime channel original movie Northern Lights in 2009. The only problem: they were both married to other people at the time (Brandi Glanville and Dean Sheremet, respectively). Cibrian and Rimes' first marriages both came to an end after their affair was exposed, launching one of the most bitter scandals we've seen in years. (Think of it as the somewhat trashier version of Aniston vs. Jolie.)

Although the tabloids still rip them a new one every so often, Cibrian and Rimes' romance appears to be doing just fine. They celebrated their six-year wedding anniversary in April 2017. Their relationships with their respective exes, meanwhile, remain as fraught as ever, especially after Glanville and Sheremet became pals and reality TV co-stars.

The late Robin Williams may have made millions of people laugh on the big screen, but his personal life was not so funny. At the end of the '80s, his nine-year marriage to Valerie Velardi reportedly fell apart because he had fallen for his nanny and personal assistant, Marsha Garces. Williams wed Garces in April 1989, but she filed for divorce 19 years later, reportedly due to Williams' alcoholism.

Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton were reportedly linked to other actors–Timothy Hutton and Laura Dern, respectively–when they met on the set of the 1999 movie Pushing Tin. In fact, in October that year, things seemed especially rock-solid for Thornton and Dern. "I'm now happily involved with someone who's my best friend," Thornton told Men's Journal (via People). "We have a dog and a yard."

Flash forward seven short months: Jolie and Thornton were married. That shock was especially devastating for Dern, who not-so-subtly implied during an interview with Talk magazine (via ABC News) that Thornton cheated on her. "I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend got married, and I've never heard from him again," she said. "It's like a sudden death."

In a 2011 interview with Dateline, country singer Miranda Lambert admitted she knew Blake Shelton was married to Kaynette Williams when they first met at CMT's 100 Greatest Duets Concert in 2005. "I had seen their wedding picture in Country Weekly," she confessed to Hoda Kotb (via Entertainment Weekly).

Shelton also admitted to falling for Lambert at that now infamous concert, telling VH1's Behind the Music (via Entertainment Weekly), "I've never had that kind of experience with anybody. I was a married guy, you know? Standing up there and singing with somebody and going, 'Man, this shouldn't be happening.' Looking back on that, I was falling in love with her, right there on stage."

Whatever the case, the relationship between Lambert and Shelton—who married in May 2011—ultimately fizzled. They filed for divorce in 2015.