5 Hollywood Femme Fatales who Broke Up a Marriage
Claire Danes
Everyone assumed that Claire Danes was the good girl next door with her fresh faced looks and on screen portrayals of lovely damsels but in 2004 when Danes stole away Billy Crudup from his pregnant wife the world saw a very different side to the actress.
The pair met on the set of Stage Beauty and conducted a hot and heavy affair which resulted in Crudup ditching his actress wife of eight years, Mary Louis Parker, when she was seven months pregnant.
When asked about the affair Danes is quoted as saying: “I was living with the same kind of integrity that I had always lived with,” which didn’t really bode well for her previous integrity.
But this femme fatale wasn’t finished; two years after her affair with Crudup she did the dirty again, but this time her victim was Crudup himself as Danes left him for a new co star, Hugh Dancy, whom she eventually went on to marry.
Mary Louis Parker has since moved on and is dating musician Charlie Mars and Crudup remains single, as well he might.
Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter is not generally regarded as the classic femme fatale with her messy hair and weird clothes but this actress is in fact a serial homewrecker.
Bonham Carter is rumoured to be the reason behind the break up of Emma Thompson’s marriage to Kenneth Branagh. The pair dated for seven years before ending their relationship.
Then Bonham Carter moved on to Tim Burton – who left his partner, model and actress, Lisa Marie for the eccentrically hair styled one.
Burton already had form however; in fact he left his wife of two years to hook up with Lisa Marie in the first place.
But unlike his wife Lisa Marie didn’t go quietly; the split was acrimonious with her receiving a $5 million settlement in lieu of a palimony action and she even went onto hold a warehouse auction, selling off Burton’s personal effects which Burton strongly objected to.
LeaAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes has fallen a long way from country star and American sweetheart after her affair with Eddie Cibrian became public knowledge.
Rimes met Cibrian on the set of their television movie Northern Lights, the sparks flew from day one with the cast and crew quickly suspecting that there was something going on.
Rumours began to circulate that the married co stars were hooking up but the pair vehemently denied the allegations until a video tape emerged of the pair on a secret rendezvous; they were captured kissing and hugging and were clearly more than just friends.
Cibrian who was a family man with two young children filed for divorce from wife of eight years, Brandi Glanville after the affair came to light and Rimes too went on to divorce her husband - also of eight years - Dean Sheremet.
Sheremet kept quiet for the most part but Glanville did not. The scorned wife was clearly furious at both Rimes and Cibrian and has made no secret of her displeasure at the situation.
Both Cibrian and Rimes continue to apologise for the affair but stop short of regretting it.
It is this lack of remorse that is probably what has made the public turn against Rimes and Cibrian so wholly. Hollywood stars have cheated before but many have emerged unscathed but in this situation both Rimes and Cibrian have been vilified to such an extent that it is hard to imagine their careers remaining on the upward trajectory they had no doubt planned.
Sienna Miller
Sienna Miller who herself went through the humiliation of a cheating boyfriend in the form of Jude Law should have really known better when she decided to snap up married actor and father of four Balthazar Getty.
Getty, an actor with the billion dollar Getty name behind him and Miller, a successful young actress were bound to attract tabloid attention but they perhaps didn’t realise quite how much.
After pictures emerged of Getty kissing a topless Sienna the pair were besieged by the paparazzi and subjected to a myriad of negative media reports. Miller was painted as the scarlet woman and her career took a beating.
Getty who was married to Rosetta Millington was said to be confused about what and who he wanted, flitting between Miller and his wife.
But Millington wasn’t a hapless young wife, waiting in the sidelines; a popular and powerful member of the inner circles of Hollywood the fashion designer wielded her might and Miller was promptly dropped from the elite circles in tinsel town.
Getty and Miller carried on an on-again off-again affair for a number of months but the pressure got too much and they called it quits after less then a year.
Getty returned tail between his legs to wife Millington.
Angelina Jolie
As with most polls these days Angelina Jolie has come out on top again but this time for all the wrong reasons.
The star, often dubbed the most beautiful woman in the world made headlines when she broke up the five year marriage of Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt.
Brad Pitt met Jolie on the set of their 2005 movie Mr and Mrs Smith but it is said that Jolie had caught Pitt’s eye before they even met.
The film had been offered to Pitt a number of times and he had always refused to star in it when other actresses were associated with the role of Mrs Smith but as soon as he heard that Jolie had signed on to play the part he snapped up the project.
Friends of Aniston say that the actor all but immediately lost interest in their marriage as soon as he began shooting the film. Aniston is said to have asked Pitt whether he had any feelings for his co star but was given a resounding denial which she chose to believe.
However the denial turned out to be a hollow one and the Pitt-Aniston union was over. Pitt had the graciousness to at least let Aniston file for divorce while he moved on to his new squeeze.
The split shocked the world and the scandal still rocks Hollywood today with the trio often being mentioned in the same breath.
Pitt and Jolie have been together for nearing six years and have six children between them.
And after quite a few years Aniston has also found love with screenwriter Junstin Theroux - she finally seems to have come out on the other side after the betrayal Pitt dished out with the most devastating femme fatale of them all.