They can be living or dead
Zsa Zsa Gabor has been married 9 times
I know Mickey Rooney was married 8 times
Artie Shaw was married 8 times
Larry King has been married 8 times but only to 7 different women.
So what other celebrities have been married a lot? By this I mean at least six marriages to different people?
Liz Taylor was married 8 times, to 7 different men.
Henry VIII to six wives he was wedded
One died, one survived, two divorced*, two beheaded.
*Actually, Henry never divorced any of his wives: he had two marriages annulled. As a good Catholic (and Henry thought himself so after he broke with the Pope), divorce was forbidden.
Phil Silvers believed that comic Joe E. Ross had been married 11 times–but that’s obviously not confirmed.
I was shocked, simply shocked, to find out Claude Rains was married six times.
Lana Turner has been married eight times to seven different men, not including her lover, Johnny Stompanto. Stompanto was stabbed by Turner’s daughter, which was later ruled self-defense.
He had three annulled: those with Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Anne of Cleves.
I’ve found several celebs with 5 spouses, but few with more, except ones who’ve already been named.
Celebs with 6 or more spouses:
Tony Curtis
Arlene Dahl
Jerry Lee Lewis
Norman Mailer
Martha Raye
Gloria Swanson
Among those with 5 marriages to 5 different people:
In the cases of Martha Raye and Judy Garland, there’s even a chance that one of the husbands MAY have been straight.
Huh? Anne Boleyn was executed, and Henry married his third wife less than two weeks later. Why would he bother annulling a marriage with a woman who was dead and posed no impediment to a subsequent marriage in the eyes of the law or (any) Church?
One to watch: Mel Harris of “thirtysomething” is 53, still alive, and has already been divorced 5 times. She’s still got time to shoot for Zsa Zsa numbers.
At the time of Anne Boleyn’s (and Catherine Howard’s) beheading, was Henry VIII still legally married to them? Or did he have the marriages annulled beforehand?
Because of the children, basically.
He didn’t want Elizabeth (whose legitimacy was questioned and whose mother he roundly hated by the time he executed her) to be more important than any children of Jane Seymour’s. Elizabeth lost her title of ‘princess’ upon her mother’s death and remained ‘Lady Elizabeth, the king’s daughter’, and considered legally illegitimate, until the time she assumed the throne. Mary was in a similar situation - though somewhat better off, as she could claim royal ancestry on both sides and had very important relations on her mother’s side who could make Henry’s life difficult if she were very badly treated.
There are other complicating factors, but I think that’s the main.
As **GythaOgg **says, presumably to underscore the illegitimacy of Elizabeth, although it’s not entirely clear. As Antonia Fraser notes in her work The Six Wives of Henry VIII:
She goes on to comment:
Which one was straight? 
Wynette’s last marriage to George Richey lasted from 1978 until her death in 1998.
So she got one right.
Another celebrity with six marriages was Boris Karloff.
Magda Gabor had six marriages, including marrying one of Zsa Zsa’s exes, actor George Sanders. That lasted a whole six weeks.
Eva was the traditionalist: only five.
Sid Luft.
Mark Steyn wrote a very funny obituary of Sid Luft, in which he said, “Sid was just about the only friend of Judy who wasn’t also a Friend of Dorothy.”
Some of the most-married stars are, bizarrely, found in Arabic-language cinema, or at least in Egyptian cinema. Tahiya Karioka, a famous actress and bellydancer, is usually attributed anywhere from 12 to 14 husbands. I’m not sure if she was legally married and divorced from all of them, or if they were considered her ‘husbands’ for reasons of propriety. One of her husbands, Rushdy Abaza, was himself married six times, and besides Tahiya his wives included the Lebanese singer Sabah (also married seven times) and Samia Gamal, another famous actress and dancer.
To remember the fates of Henry VIII’s wives, in order, my grandmother always liked this rhyme: “Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived.”
I forget who was the after-dinner celebrity speaker who got up at the end of a very long evening and said, “I feel a little like Elizabeth Taylor’s fifth husband on his wedding night: I know what’s expected of me, but I’m not sure I can make it interesting!”
Gregg Allman has been married and divorced five or six times. I think it’s six.