Our society often likes to say that “girls mature faster than boys”. But one may wonder: when should a line be drawn?Famous men have often, throughout history, pushed the limits of questionable age gaps when choosing a romantic partner.Bored Pandatakes a look at 20 male celebrities who were well into adulthood when they started dating teenage girls.This post may includeaffiliate links.
Our society often likes to say that “girls mature faster than boys”. But one may wonder: when should a line be drawn?
Famous men have often, throughout history, pushed the limits of questionable age gaps when choosing a romantic partner.
Bored Pandatakes a look at 20 male celebrities who were well into adulthood when they started dating teenage girls.
This post may includeaffiliate links.
Powerful famous men dating minors is a problem that has persisted in the entertainment industry for quite some time.In fact, cinema pioneer Charlie Chaplin met child actress Lita Grey in the 1920s.In 1924, while filming The Gold Rush at the age of 16, Lita notably caught Charlie’s eye, who was 35 at the time.A romance between Lita and Charlie developed as a result of shooting the movie, which led to marriage in Mexico on November 26, 1924.But this marriage was hastily arranged, as Lita was pregnant.Charlie and Lita went on to have two children during their marriage, which ended in 1926.
Before rising to fame as the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis was implicated in a suspicious relationship with then-up-and-coming film actress Ione Skye.Anthony and Ione, who became best known for her role in 1989’s Say Anything, began dating when they were aged 24 and 16 respectively.Ione had a tumultuous childhood and had little contact with her father growing up.Nevertheless, Anthony also claims to have undergone a troubled childhood, as he described in his memoir Scar Tissue being the son of a Hollywood drug dealer and therefore being exposed to drugs, sex, and alcohol from a young age.In aTikTok, Ione said: “I was 16 going on 17.“Do I approve of this age gap? No, not at all.“Also, my mother and brother, who I grew up with, were very disapproving at that time.“They absolutely tried to talk me out of it ten thousand times.“They very much did not approve and were very alarmed.”
One of the most infamous cases of a powerful and famous man dating a teenage girl involves convicted sex offender R. Kelly and the late Aaliyah.The disgraced R’n’B star, then aged 27, reportedly silenced a 15-year-old Aaliyah and her family through a non-disclosure agreement, following his marriage and subsequent annulment to her.Allegations made in Lifetime’s “Surviving R. Kelly” docuseries centered around R. Kelly’s 2022 federal trial where the NDA was brought up in the courtroom as evidence. The One In A Million singer was listed as Jane Doe #1 in the trial.“Surviving R. Kelly” included Aaliyah’s story as a victim of R. Kelly, after years of the media and music industry scandalizing her marriage to the criminal.AsVarietyreported, Aaliyah’s debut album in 1994 was titled “Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number” and was recorded when she was 14 years old.During this recording, R. Kelly was Aaliyah’s mentor. Rumors quickly circulated that there was a relationship between the teen music star and the nearly 30-year-old singer.
Heartthrob Brad Pitt has had a long career in the entertainment industry, with a dating history that is just as lengthy.Amongst the numerous A-list celebrities Brad has dated, the actor was involved with actress Juliette Lewis.When she was 16 years old, Juliette met a 26-year-old Brad while shooting the tele movie Too Young To Die.Subsequently, both actors reportedly fell for each other.“We met on a movie and started dating when it was over,” Juliette told theLos Angeles Timesin 1993. “I already liked him as an actor, plus you gotta respect somebody who’s in the same field as you.”
While on set for the 1973 movie The Harrad Experiment, 14-year-old Melanie Griffith met 22-year-old Don Johnson.Thereafter, the two actors began dating before getting married in 1976. Melanie and Don’s marriage lasted six months.Melanie’s mother, The Birds actress Tippi Hedren, reportedly allowed her to move in with Don when she was only 15.Melanie told theHollywood Reporter: “I thought he was the most beautiful person I’d ever seen.”Meanwhile, Donsaidback in 1975: “I was a little cocky at the time and didn’t talk to her mother for a couple of weeks.”He continued: “Melanie and I became friends first, but then she picked me for something more.“I was skeptical only because of her age, but she was a lot more woman than most of the girls I had been going out with.”Don and Melanie reunited for a second marriage. Actress Dakota Johnson is their second child together.
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Former lead guitarist and occasional vocalist for The Amboy Dukes, Ted Nugent, was 30 when he started dating 17-year-old Pele Massa.Ted and Pele first met and became lovers in 1978, in Pele’s native Hawaii.According to the laws of Hawaii, the age of sexual consent is 16. As a result, the rock star went on to become the legal guardian of Pele, with the permission of her parents.In an interview forVH1, Ted said: “I got the stamp of approval of their parents.“Because they figured that Ted Nugent was better than some drug-infested punk in high school.”In turn, Pele recalled: “I was underage, and even back in the wild ’70s, it wasn’t a terribly appropriate situation in most people’s eyes and now it would be criminal.“
Disney Channel sensation Hilary Duff was 16 when she began a relationship with 25-year-old Good Charlotte musician Joel Madden in July 2004.It was Hilary’s mother Susan who broke the news of the highly speculated romantic connection in an interview with Seventeen in 2005.Subsequently, Joel and Hilary made their public debut as a couple at the 2005 Video Music Awards - two months before Duff’s 18th birthday.During an appearance on The View soon after, the Lizzie McGuire actress revealed they had met through a mutual friend and were friends for three months becoming a romantic item.Hilary reportedly kept things secret because of the suspicious age difference.
Myra Lewis Williams, also known as Myra Gale Brown, was the third wife of late rock and roll icon, Jerry Lee Lewis.But more infamously, Myra was “The Killer”’s 13-year-old cousin at the time they got married.When Myra was 78, she said in a 2016 interview that she’s been “right here” the whole time — but she apparently no longer had a relationship with her notorious ex-husband after 2015.“Rock ‘n’ roll’s first great wild man” reportedly eloped with Myra in December 1957, the result of a romance that developed when he moved into the Memphis home of Myra’s father, JW Brown, who was Jerry’s cousin and bass player, according to Jerry’s obituary in theLos Angeles The Times.
French sex symbol Brigitte Bardotmet the French filmmaker Roger Vadim when she was 16 and he was 22.It didn’t take long before the couple started a secret relationship, subsequently getting married on December 21, 1952, three months after her 18th birthday.Vadim directed Brigitte in And God Created Woman, his directorial debut, in 1956.On the set, the actress started an affair with her costar Jean-Louis Trintignant.As a result, Brigitte and Vadim amicably divorced in April 1957.“I knew what was happening and rather expected it,” Vadim later said, according to theSydney Morning Herald.He continued: “I would always prefer to have that kind of wife, knowing she is unfaithful to me rather than possess a woman who just loved me and no one else … I wanted a woman with spirit, with joie de vivre … a woman with a sense of adventure and sexual curiosity.“Vadim eventually married Jane Fonda, with whom he welcomed daughter Vanessa Vadim.
Good Luck Chuck actor Dane Cook, 51, married fitness instructor Kelsi Taylor, 24, last month at a private estate in O’ahu, Hawaii.Dane had been dating Kelsi for five years prior to tying the knot, prompting questions regarding their significant age gap.The pair started dating when Kelsi was 18 and the comedian was 45, despite reports publishing divided accounts on the couple’s actual ages at the beginning of their relationship.Speaking during an Instagram Live Q&A in August 2019, Dane said: “We met at a game night I host at my place.“We were friends for a while and soon after fell in like with each [other] and then upgraded to love.”
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