Rock Star Romance
Kate Moss’ highly anticipated nuptials is just the latest in a long string of model-musician marriages. Here’s a roundup of the good, the bad, and the ones that got really ugly.
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After dating for three years, The Kills guitarist Hince, 40, proposed to the 37-year-old supermodel in bed with a vintage 1920s engagement ring. Moss was engaged briefly to Pete Doherty and has an eight-year-old daughter from a previous relationship. The star-studded July 2nd wedding is rumored to cost $800,000.
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The two met in 1976 and began dating in 1977, while Jagger was still married to first wife Bianca Jagger (they divorced the next year on grounds of adultery). After years of cohabitation, they were married in a Balinese ceremony in 1990, though in 1999, (only a few months after Luciana Gimenez gave birth to Jagger’s seventh child), Jagger contested its validity and the marriage was annulled. Hall and Jagger have four children together.
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Despite a 24-year age difference, 21-year-old Hunter became the rock legend’s second wife in 1990. The pair, who have two children together, split in 1999, though were not officially divorced until 2006—several months after Stewart fathered his seventh child with the woman who would become his third wife. He once famously said, “Instead of getting married again, I’m just going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.”
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Married in 2005 after an epic marriage proposal—in a custom-built igloo at 14,000 feet—the couple now have four children together (one from Klum’s previous relationship with Flavio Briatore) and renew their vows in a big way every year, like their recent masquerade and white trash-themed bashes.
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One of the most iconic fashion-music matches, they were set up on a blind date in 1990 after her second and his first marriage ended. Iman says she knew two weeks into the relationship that he was the one when he greeted her at the airport with flowers, surrounded by fans and cameras, and no security. They married two years later in Switzerland and have one daughter, born in 2000.
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The Duran Duran front man broke off a highly-publicized engagement to his long-time girlfriend when he fell in love with Parvaneh after seeing a picture of her in a magazine. Le Bon tracked her down through her modeling agency and the pair married in 1985. They currently have three daughters and several dogs.
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Brinkley, the “Uptown Girl” in Joel’s famous song, married the singer in 1985 after meeting in St. Barts two years earlier. It was the second marriage for both. They had one child and divorced in 1994, though remain friendly—Brinkley attended Joel’s wedding to Katie Lee in 2004, which ended in separation five years later.
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The Dutch DJ-Model duo, who started dating in 2009, were married in Kroes’ hometown of Eastermar in November 2010, only a few months shy of the birth of their first child.
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Seymour met the rocker in 1991 after the end of her first marriage and went on to star in Guns N’ Roses’ videos for “November Rain” and “Don’t Cry”. The two became engaged and lived together for two years before a bitter breakup in 1993 that included accusations of infidelity and abuse, and resulted in lawsuits from both parties.
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Hansen met the Rolling Stone guitarist at Studio 54 on her 23rd birthday, ran into him again nine months later at Richard’s birthday party (he is 13 years her senior), and have been together ever since. They married in 1983, on his 40th and have two daughters, Theodora and Alexandra Richards.
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The two met on the set of The White Stripes’ music video for “Blue Orchid” and shortly thereafter, in 2005, with White’s ex-wife and band member Meg White serving as maid of honor, were married by a shaman on a canoe on the Amazon River. They have two children, and announced their divorce in 2011.
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Model Porizkova met The Cars lead singer in during the filming of the music video “Drive” in 1984 when she was 19, and he was 35 and married to his second wife. Five years later, the two married in St. Barts, and have two children together (he has six total, two from each marriage).
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The Kings of Leon front man and Victoria’s Secret angel fittingly met at the Choachella Festival in 2007, and she has since been featured in the band’s video for “Use Somebody” and reportedly inspired the song “Sex on Fire”. They wed in 2011 in Montecito, California.