The shortest-lived celebrity marriages (13 photos)

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Kim Kardashian and NBA player Kris Humphries' marriage lasted just 72 days. A few days ago, the couple announced their plans to divorce, with Kim initiating the process. Hollywood marriages are typically short-lived. In this collection, you'll learn about the shortest American celebrity marriages, which lasted from 5 months to 7 minutes.

1. Aaliyah and R. Kelly: 5 Months

Shortly after 12-year-old Aaliyah, the new R&B sensation, began recording her debut album, "Age Ain't Nothing but a Number," in the early 1990s, she was mentored by singer-songwriter R. Kelly. The album was released in 1994. Rumors circulated around the same time that 15-year-old Aaliyah and 27-year-old Kelly were dating or even married. Vibe magazine published a copy of their marriage certificate, which showed the couple married on August 31, 1994, in Illinois. It stated that Aaliyah was 18 years old. When her parents learned of this, they pressured her to have the marriage annulled. This occurred in February 1995. Both artists denied the marriage, but it was used against Kelly during the singer's child pornography trial.

2. Renée Zellweger and Kenny Chesney: 4 Months

Actress Renée Zellweger and country music star Kenny Chesney annulled their marriage as quickly as they entered it. They met in January 2005 and married in a small beach ceremony on St. John Island that May. But in mid-September, Zellweger filed for divorce, citing "cheating." Rumors swirled about Chesney's insatiable sexual appetites, but Zellweger quickly denied them. In 2006, she revealed the truth about her short-lived marriage. "I made the biggest mistake of my life," the actress told Now magazine. "I felt like a fool.… I was going through a lot of changes in my life at the time. I wanted to stop and be a normal girl for a while. My marriage came at that time and was very important to me. I don't want anyone to think I didn't take it seriously." In 2010, Chesney told Oprah with a chuckle that he "panicked.… The idea of marriage made me feel like I'd lost my identity."

3. Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock: Just Under 4 Months

Although Pamela Anderson, the Baywatch beauty, called her wedding to rocker Kid Rock, which took place in July 2006 in Saint-Tropez, "the best and most romantic wedding of all time," that clearly wasn't enough to make their marriage last. Pamela and Kid Rock subsequently had two more weddings. However, before Thanksgiving of that same year, both parties filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Rumors suggested Borat was to blame. Pamela's involvement in his film allegedly infuriated Rock. Over the next few years, the musician periodically lashed out at his ex-wife, telling Ellen DeGeneres in 2008, "I touched the stove, the stove was hot, I don't think I'm going to touch it again." In 2009, after Anderson remarried, he told talk show host David Letterman, "I wish someone had given me the advice I'm now giving her husband... Why buy a cow when you can get milk for free?"

4. Lisa Marie Presley and Nicolas Cage: 3 Months

By the time Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Presley's only child, met actor Nicolas Cage, she had already been divorced twice and had a broken engagement under her belt. Their relationship was rocky from the start, but they finally married in Hawaii in August 2002. The ceremony took place on the 25th anniversary of Elvis's death, 10 days after Cage proposed to Lisa Marie. Their marriage ended by Thanksgiving of that year, with Cage citing irreconcilable differences. "I'm so sorry, we should never have gotten married," Presley said in a statement. "I made a big mistake." Unfortunately, their divorce proceedings dragged on for 13 months—four times longer than their marriage—and were finalized on May 26, 2004. The following year, on Oprah's talk show, Presley said she and Cage had been on good terms. "You know, I have to give him credit. It was a difficult time for both of us. Ultimately, he redeemed himself, and we became very good friends after that," she explained.

5. Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries: 72 days

Despite their huge height difference, reality TV star Kim Kardashian and NBA player Kris Humphries seemed like a very harmonious couple. By the time Kardashian began dating Humphries in late 2010, she had previously been married to music producer Damon Thomas (their marriage lasted four years) and had also had a long-term relationship with NFL star Reggie Bush. In May 2011, Humphries proposed to Kim with a massive 20.5-carat engagement ring. They married in August in California in front of 440 guests, spending $20 million on the ceremony. With their relationship so closely followed by viewers of the E! reality show "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," it seemed fitting that their wedding would also be part of the show. But perhaps that drew too much attention. Kardashian reportedly filed for divorce from Humphries 72 days after their Halloween wedding, citing irreconcilable differences. "After careful consideration, I have decided to end my marriage," Kardashian said in a statement to E!. "I hope everyone understands that this was not an easy decision. I hoped this marriage would be forever, but sometimes things don't work out as planned. We remain friends and wish each other the best." However, Humphries told Us Weekly that he is "committed to this marriage and everything it represents... I love my wife, and I am devastated to learn that she has filed for divorce. I am committed to doing everything in my power to save our marriage."

6. Drew Barrymore and Jeremy Thomas: 38 Days

In March 1994, 19-year-old Drew Barrymore married 31-year-old bar owner Jeremy Thomas, whom she had known for only six weeks. "We're going to honeymoon in a little romantic bungalow," Barrymore told People magazine after the wedding. "I can't wait to walk on the beach with my husband." Unfortunately, those moments didn't come around for long, as on April 28, 1994, just over a month later, Barrymore filed for divorce. Sadly, her second marriage, to comedian Tom Green, fared little better. It lasted only six months.

7. Ali Landry and Mario Lopez: 2 Weeks

Just two weeks after their wedding in April 2004, "Saved by the Bell" stars Mario Lopez and Ali Landry separated due to his husband's alleged infidelity. Although he didn't comment on the matter at the time, in February 2011, now a father (albeit divorced), he admitted to radio host Howard Stern that he had indeed had an affair with another woman in Mexico during his bachelor weekend. "At that point, I wasn't ready to settle down. I wasn't a person who knew much about marriage," Lopez admitted. "There was no mistake: I thought, 'She's beautiful, she's a good girl, she comes from a wonderful family, and she'll be a good mother...' But I mistook cowardice for unpreparedness."

8. Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman: 9 Days

What happened in Las Vegas between Carmen Electra and eccentric basketball star Dennis Rodman remains just that. The couple, who dated for eight months, married early on the morning of November 14, 1998, at the Little Chapel of the Flowers in Sin City. However, a week later, Rodman filed for divorce, claiming he was drunk when he said "I do." "It's very easy to get caught up in the moment," Electra told People magazine. "You think it's romantic, but then you realize, 'Oh my God, we did it in Vegas?' This marriage is like a cheeseburger at a drive-in."

9. Dennis Hopper and Michelle Phillips: 8 days

Easy Rider star Dennis Hopper and The Mamas and the Papas singer Michelle Phillips married on Halloween in 1970 in Taos, New Mexico. They spent a week together before Hopper's erratic behavior forced Phillips to return to Los Angeles, where she filed for divorce on November 8 at her father's request. Phillips described her short marriage in Vanity Fair magazine, calling it tortured and adding, "I was so emotionally overwhelmed at the time that I didn't even know what I was doing." Hopper, however, seems quite content with the period. In 1994, he told The New York Times Magazine, "Seven days were pretty good. The eighth was bad."

10. Britney Spears and Jason Alexander: 55 Hours

Even before shaving her head and being spotted driving with a baby on her lap, Britney Spears shocked the world with her quickie marriage to childhood friend Jason Alexander. They married on January 3, 2004, in Las Vegas and were married for only 55 hours before Spears' lawyers filed for divorce. Alexander told Access Hollywood of the affair: "We just looked at each other and then said, 'Let's do something wild and crazy, like get married.'" They soon realized they had made a "mistake" that needed to be quickly corrected. Spears' lawyers also added that the whole thing was "a joke gone too far."

11. Zsa Zsa Gabor and Felipe de Alba: Day 1

Zsa Zsa Gabor had been engaged seven times before marrying Mexican actor and playboy Felipe de Alba. They married on a yacht off Puerto Vallarta in April 1982. However, the union lasted only one day before Gabor decided to annul it, arguing that a marriage so far out in international waters could not be considered legal. Add to this the fact that Gabor was still legally married to her seventh husband, hotel magnate Conrad Hilton. Moreover, her eighth marriage was witnessed only by a ship's captain, so it's understandable why Gabor decided to pretend it never happened. "I've always married bad men," she told People magazine in 1986. "That's my disease. The worse they are, the more I like them. That's my tragedy. Later, I'm surprised at how bad they are."

12. Robin Givens and Svetozar Marinkovic: Less than a Day

Robin Givens's list of exes is quite impressive: She once dated comedian Eddie Murphy, Brad Pitt (before he became famous), comedian Howard Stern, and was also married to boxing legend Mike Tyson. But none of them were as fleeting as her relationship with her tennis instructor, Svetozar Marinkovic. They married and separated on the same day, August 22, 1997. According to Marinkovic, the marriage lasted seven minutes, although in reality it lasted eight hours. Clearly, this union wasn't built on love.