Death came apart too soon: Stars widowed at 20, 30 and 40

Fate did not give these celebrities and their wives a chance to meet old age together.

Model Anna Nicole Smith was widowed at just 28, but that doesn’t mean it was a surprise. The fact is that in 1994 Anna married 90-year-old millionaire J. Howard Marshall II, whom she met at a strip club where she worked part-time. The tycoon died of natural causes of old age in 1995.

US President Joe Biden was widowed at age 30. His wife, Neilia Hunter, to whom he was married for six years, died in a car accident in 1972, along with the couple’s one-year-old daughter, Naomi. Their two sons, Bo and Hunter, survived the accident. Biden married his second wife, Jill Jacobs, in 1975. They are together to this day and have one daughter, Ashley.

Actor Henry Fonda was widowed at 45. His second wife, Frances Ford Seymour, committed suicide in 1950. After 13 years of marriage, Fonda asked him for a divorce, after which she ended up in a mental hospital. On her 42nd birthday, the woman committed suicide. She is survived by a daughter from a previous marriage, as well as children of Henry, Peter and Jane Fonda. Fonda himself married three more times after that.

Singer Courtney Love was widowed at 30 when her second husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, killed himself in 1994. It has only been two years since their marriage. Since then, Courtney has not remarried.

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Actor Pierce Brosnan was widowed at the age of 38. His wife Cassandra Harris died of ovarian cancer in 1991. They lived in marriage for 17 years, they had a common son. Pierce also adopted two of his children from a previous marriage, Charlotte and Christopher, after their biological father died in 1986. Charlotte, alas, repeated her mother’s tragic fate and also died of breast cancer. ovary in 2013, when she was 41 years old.

Brosnan married Keely Shaye Smith in 2001 and the couple have two sons.

Film star Elizabeth Taylor was widowed at 26. Her third husband, Mike Todd, died in a plane crash a year after their marriage. Elizabeth was supposed to fly with him, but stayed home with a cold.

Actress Lauren Bacall was widowed at 33. Her husband Humphrey Bogart, with whom she was 12, died of cancer in 1957 at the age of 57. The couple had two children, Stephen and Leslie Bogart. After her husband’s death, Lauren remarried. Actor Jason Robards became her chosen one, but the marriage was short-lived – from 1961 to 1969. They had a son, Sam.

Roman Polanski was widowed at the age of 36 and it’s one of the scariest stories of all time. His second wife, actress Sharon Tate, was murdered by members of the infamous Manson cult in 1969 in her home. Four of her friends died with her. Tate, 26, was 8.5 months pregnant. Polanski married actress Emmanuelle Seigner in 1989. The couple have two children.

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It was as if a bad fate befell the former first lady of the United States – she was twice widowed. In November 1963, at the age of 46, her husband, US President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated. Jackie herself was 34 at the time. The tragedy happened just months after the death of their newborn son Patrick. In 1968, Jacqueline married billionaire Aristotle Onassis, but was widowed a second time in 1975. Onassis died of respiratory failure at the age of 69.

Hollywood star Jean Harlow was widowed at the age of 21. She lived with her husband, MGM studio producer Paul Burn, for just two months. In 1932, the man committed suicide at the age of 42. The actress herself outlived her husband by only five years. She died suddenly in 1937 at the age of 26 from kidney disease.