Stars Who Left Their Wives For Younger Women

Rock n' roll icon Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones met his wife, Jo, in 1977 and married her in 1985. Everything was pretty peachy for the hard-partying couple until 2009. What happened then? 

Wood reportedly met 18-year-old cocktail waitress Ekaterina Ivanova and wasn't discreet about his dalliances with her—he even introduced her to his own wife! 

In Jo's autobiography (via the Daily Mail), she claims Ronnie and Ivanova drunkenly arrived at Ronnie and Jo's home in the wee hours one morning. Jo claims that Ivanova, still allegedly wasted, tried using her gas stove to light her cigarette and caught her own hair on fire. Jo said she used a damp washrag to put it out–a move she admitted to the Daily Mail that she may regret. The incident supposedly ended with Ronnie telling Jo, "Isn't she funny? She reminds me of you when you were young." Uh, ouch.

Ryan Phillippe was one of the prettiest pin-up boys of the late 1990s. He and Reese Witherspoon, who co-starred together in Cruel Intentions (1999), tied the knot in a shotgun wedding in 1999 when Witherspoon was 23 and Phillippe was 25. They soon became parents to daughter Ava and son Deacon and were considered a golden (or at least golden-haired) couple until 2007. 

That's when Phillippe reportedly met Australian actress Abbie Cornish on the set of Stop Loss (2007). Witherspoon filed for divorce, and Phillippe stepped out with Cornish, who is about six years younger than his ex.

Eddie Cibrian married model Brandi Glanville in 2001. The couple have two sons together, Mason and Jake. In 2009, Cibrian, then 36, co-starred with LeAnn Rimes, then 27, in the Lifetime movie Northern Lights (2009), and they began an alleged affair–both were married at the time. 

He and Glanville, who was 36 at the time, divorced in 2009, as did Rimes and then-husband Dean Sheremet. Cibrian's divorce was finalized in 2010, and he and Rimes tied the knot in 2011.

Tom Cruise married Mimi Rogers in 1987 when he was still a rising star. By 1989, his fame had skyrocketed, making him a 27-year-old megastar married to a 33-year-old middling actress. Then Cruise met a 22-year-old Nicole Kidman on the set of Days of Thunder (1990). The year the movie debuted, Cruise divorced Rogers and married Kidman, with whom he shares two adopted children. 

In 2001, Cruise reportedly blindsided Kidman with divorce and rebounded with actress Penelope Cruz, who was then 27 to Kidman's 34 and Cruise's 41. Cruise and Cruz dated from 2001 to 2004.

Ben Affleck, then 30, was engaged to Jennifer Lopez, then 33, in 2003. Then he met Jennifer Garner, who was also 30 at the time, and ditched Bennifer 1.0 for Bennifer 2.0. 

People reported that more than a decade later, Affleck began to cheat on wife Garner with a younger woman, Saturday Night Live producer Lindsay Shookus. 

After he and Garner separated, Affleck began to publicly date Shookus, despite the fact that he was still legally married to Garner and Shookus was still legally married to her husband, Kevin Miller.

Aw, come on, Mr. Bean! In 2013, British comedian and actor Rowan Atkinson divorced his wife of 23 years, Sunetra Sastry (pictured,) who was 56 to his then-62. He very quickly moved on to Louise Ford, a then-31-year-old actress. That rebound was considered "unreasonable behavior" by a judge, who settled Atkinson and Sastry's divorce in just 65 seconds. 

For what it's worth, Atkinson and Ford are still going strong, but only time will tell if she ages herself out of his demographic, too.

Sean Penn was married to Robin Wright for 11 years when they separated and almost divorced–the couple withdrew the divorce petition in 2008. That same year, Penn, then 48, started dating model Petra Nemcova, then 28, while still married to Wright, then 43. After he and Wright split for good in 2010, he almost immediately took up with actress Scarlett Johansson, who was 26 at the time.

Though they never made it down the aisle, Billy Crudup was expecting a child with actress and longtime girlfriend Mary-Louise Parker in 2003. Crudup was 35 to Parker's 39. Then Crudup met a 24-year-old Claire Danes. 

He dumped Parker and took up with Danes, his co-star in 2004's Stage Beauty. Crudup and Danes were together for four years. Danes later told Howard Stern (via Us Weekly), "I was just in love with him and needed to explore that and I was 24... I didn't quite know what those consequences would be."

The late Tony Curtis was a serial younger-woman-pursuer. He divorced first wife Janet Leigh (pictured left) in 1963 when she was 35 for a then-18-year-old Christine Kaufmann (pictured center.) He divorced Kaufmann in 1968 when she was 23 and quickly took off with Leslie Allen (whose age has gone unreported) the same year. He and Allen divorced in 1982. Two years later, he wed Andrea Savio, who was 21 at the time. He divorced Savio in 1992, when she was 29, and married attorney Lisa Deutsch (whose age was also unreported) in 1993. They divorced just 10 months later, and he married Jill Ann Vandenberg (pictured right,) who was 27 at the time—45 years younger than Curtis. Vandenberg and Curtis remained together until his death in 2010.

Rod Stewart has a type: hot, blond, and younger than his previous lover. He and his first wife Alana Stewart (pictured left) were 34 when they tied the knot in 1979. In 1983—before his and Alana's divorce was finalized—Rod hooked up with model Kelly Emberg, who was 24 at the time to Alana's 38. He and Emberg dated from 1983 to 1990, when he met and married model Rachel Hunter—when Emberg was 31 and Hunter was 21. He and Hunter (pictured center) were married until 2006, when Rod met model Penny Lancaster, who was 34 to Hunter's 37. Here's hoping Lancaster (pictured right) invested in Olay and maybe a fake ID saying she's 10 years younger, or else she may not be the last Mrs. Stewart.

The Cars frontman Ric Ocasek was married to wife Suzanne for 16 years when he met 19-year-old model Paulina Porizkova (pictured) on the set of the "Drive" music video. Shortly after, he and Suzanne divorced, and he and Porizkova became inseparable. They married in 1995 and have been together ever since.