One of the serial stories was about his five marriages and their consequences.

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Five marriages, four ending in divorce, the first with a man who beat her and the fourth, in 1968, with Stokely Carmichael, the leader of America's Black Panthers.

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Milchan disappears and reemerges with his 9-month-old son, Shimon Alexandre (the youngest of five children from two marriages), and his wife of two years, Amanda, a petite blonde from South Africa who once ranked third among the world's women tennis players.

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To determine the best city for couples, we collected data for 40 of the largest metropolitan statistical areas for five different categories: marriages per 1, 000 people, divorces per 1, 000 people, starter-home affordability, income disparity and availability of couple's or family counseling.

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They married a couple years later and raised five children from their previous marriages.

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Three in five wives said they would end their marriages if they discovered an affair.

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She quotes a study of people in unhappy marriages which followed up the couples five years later.

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Roughly 18, 000 couples were wed in the nearly five months that same-sex marriage was legal and those marriages remain valid in California.

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He spins an extraordinary tale of great industrial wealth, compulsive acquisition of art, decorated with complicated sub-plots involving serial adultery and divorce. (His failure to decide whether this is industrial history, art history or good gossip must explain the meaningless title.) Thyssen had five wives, though Mr Litchfield's account of these marriages was at the mercy of Thyssen's memory, which was impaired by alcoholism and the arrogance of wealth.

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