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Jerry Hall spent 22 years with Mick Jagger and had four of his children. When she filed for divorce, he told a court they had never been married, and the court agreed with him.
They met in 1977. She was a Texas supermodel who left Bryan Ferry for him. In November 1990 they finally married in a Hindu ceremony on the island of Bali.
In 1998 Mick had an affair with Luciana Morad, a 29-year-old Brazilian model. When she got pregnant, Jerry filed for divorce.
That is when Mick's lawyers made their move. They argued the Bali ceremony had never been completed properly, so in the eyes of the law there was no marriage to divorce. In August 1999 the High Court in London agreed and declared it null and void under both English and Indonesian law.
No marriage meant no normal divorce. The press had guessed she might get $48 million out of his $240 million fortune. She reportedly walked away with about ยฃ10 million instead.
Seventeen years later, at 59, she had her first legal wedding. The groom was Rupert Murdoch, 84, one of the most powerful media owners on Earth.
In June 2022 she was waiting for him at their estate in Oxfordshire when an email arrived: "Jerry, sadly I've decided to call an end to our marriage." The message added that his New York lawyer would be in touch with hers. According to friends, she had 30 days to move out of their California mansion.
The divorce was done within two months. One of the terms was so specific it made headlines on its own: Jerry was not allowed to give story ideas to the writers of Succession, the HBO show about a media billionaire and his family.
So her first husband said she was never his wife, and her second one fired her by email.
In the video below, it is 1995. Jerry sits down with Conan O'Brien at the height of her fame and jokes about growing up in Texas. Four years later, a court would tell her she had never been married at all.
Which ending was worse: "we were never married" or an 11-word email?