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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E137Number12LooksJustLikeYou Number 12 Looks Just Like You]]", marriages are extremely short-lived in Marilyn Cuberle's society. Her mother Lana has had ten husbands, nine of them in the last five years, while Val's mother has had eleven.

* Henry's reigning contemporary was Russian czar UsefulNotes/IvanTheTerrible. The details are rather sketchy with him, but he did have either six or seven wives (even though the church only sanctioned the fist four marriages, so the last partners might be more as concubines rather than wives). Some accounts say that the last three wives were killed by the czar; more likely all Ivan's wives except for two or three who died while married to the czar (possibly poisoned) were just forcibly sent into convents as nuns though.

* On ''Series/{{Castle}}'', the titular character has two ex-wives.

** Her older sister Magda was married six times (including once to one of Zsa Zsa's ex-husbands), and her younger sister [[Creator/EvaGabor Eva]] was married five times. Their mother was married thrice. Guess it's InTheBlood? Interestingly, despite the sisters' collective 20 marriages, only one child was born to any of them: Zsa Zsa's daughter Francesca Hilton. As a girl, Francesca was briefly the sister-in-law of Elizabeth Taylor when she married her much-older brother.

* Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Claudius}} of Rome had two failed betrothals and four marriages, the final one ending in his death. His first betrothal was to a distant cousin, which was broken because her family came into conflict with UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}}, his great-uncle. The second one ended with his fiance [[WidowedAtTheWedding dying on their wedding day]]. Later on, he divorced his first wife Plautia due to suspecting her of adultery and of murdering her sister-in-law. He divorced his second wife Aelia for political reasons and trivial offenses (allegedly). His third wife, Valeria, was a [[GoldDigger gold-digging]] nymphomaniac who cheated on him regularly, [[AnythingThatMoves even going so far as to compete with prostitutes to see who could obtain more partners]], and married her lover Gaius Silius before being executed along with him. After this, Claudius told the Praetorian Guard that if he ever married again they had his permission to kill him. Regardless, he married his fourth and final wife (and niece) Agrippina months later, who manipulated him into adopting her son UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} before [[BlackWidow poisoning him so Nero could take the throne.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': The John Byrne run establishes that Luthor has been married at least eight times. This is revealed in a conversation between him and Lois who is fending off his latest round of [[AbhorrentAdmirer unwanted advances towards her.]]

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** ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "Marriage Madness", Mrs. Davis falls prey to a gold-digging butcher, who had married the first time when he ran away with his French teacher in Junior High.

** Marge's sister Selma, who over the years has been married to Sideshow Bob, Lionel Hutz, Troy [=McClure=], Disco Stu, Grandpa Simpson, and Fat Tony[[note]][[spoiler:Well, she thought she married him, but it was actually a ceremony to become his mistress]][[/note]]. She's [[HollywoodDateless usually unable to find a man]], so when she ''does'' find one, she leaps right in.

** Her older sister Magda was married six times (including once to one of Zsa Zsa's ex-husbands), and her younger sister Eva was married five times. Their mother was married thrice. Guess it's InTheBlood? Interestingly, despite the sisters' collective 20 marriages, only one child was born to any of them: Zsa Zsa's daughter Francesca Hilton. As a girl, Francesca was briefly the sister-in-law of Elizabeth Taylor when she married her much-older brother.

* Both [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's]] personal lives included multiple turbulent divorces; Laurel had four wives (five if one counts a common-law relationship) over the course of his life (one of whom he remarried, only for them to end up divorcing a second time), while Hardy had three. Both men seemed to find lasting happiness with their final spouses (Ida Kitaeva Raphael and Virginia Lucille Jones, respectively), who remained with them until their deaths.

* ''Series/StElsewhere'': Helen Rosenthal has been married four times, [[MatzoFever each time to a Jewish man]]. All four marriages end in divorce.

* Ron Swanson on ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' has two ex-wives named Tammy, which is also his mother's name. He marries a third woman during the course of the series, and it works out this time.

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