# What is the longest ex-marriage in history?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-ex-marriage-in-history/1024635
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 6, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-ex-marriage-in-history/1024635 "2025-11-06T17:59:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2026, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-ex-marriage-in-history/1024635/21 "2026-09-25T18:19:04Z")
Not breaking the record but I just learned about this one so I’ll revive this zombie.
Gary Lockwood and Stefanie Powers were married in 1966 and divorced in 1972. Both are still alive so that’s a fifty-four year ongoing ex-marriage.
---
### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-ex-marriage-in-history/1024635/22 "2026-09-25T18:25:45Z")
> [@md-2000](#):
>
> Woody Allen married his first wife when he was 20, divorced in 1956 when he was 23. No word on when/if she died. That was 69 years ago, she was 17 when they married. She’d be 88 now… a chance she’s still around.
And a belated correction. Woody Allen and Harlene Rosen were married in 1956. They got divorced in 1962. So Ray Anthony and Mamie Van Doren regain the number one spot.
[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-ex-marriage-in-history/1024635.md?page=1)