In order to dedicate herself solely to me, she never married, and, in a sweetly sly way, she never let me marry either so as not to have to share her protectorate.

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She was never formally married.

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That's not until her uncle finally told her what no one else had: She had unknowingly married the father she never knew.

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She never had a job after she got married.

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She had been married for a year and knew she would never had children.

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In 1998, she was engaged to actor Dean Cain, but they never married.

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With Legge, whom she married in 1953, Miss Schwarzkopf was bullied as never before.

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Jackson owns a lot of valuable songs, likes to take ownership stakes in the products she endorses and is married to reported billionaire Wissam Al Mana (who has also never shown up on our billionaire list).

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Lum has never married, and her main companions are an Alaskan malamute named Mood (whose photo she keeps on her desk) and a Samoyed named Snowy.

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One was Paqu, or "Passive Aggressive Queen of the Universe, " the much-married mother of Blake Lively's character who never met a Southern California trend she didn't embrace.

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Highlights include the crushed velvet wedding dress Hepburn wore when she married Ludlow Ogden Smith in 1928 (she got a Mexican divorce from him six years later and never remarried).

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