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- Bill Murray has been married and divorced twice.
- He’s welcomed six youngsters throughout two marriages.
- In June of 2023, a report emerged that he’s presently courting Kelis, nonetheless, they reportedly break up by Aug. 25, 2023.
From Ghostbusters to Lost in Translation and past, Bill Murray has been enormously profitable and extremely versatile as an actor. But regardless of having six sons throughout two marriages, each of the unions led to divorce — and the 72-year-old actor has by no means remarried since he break up from his second spouse Jennifer Butler again in 2008. Allegations of inappropriate conduct had been leveled towards him in 2022, additional complicating his private life.
But in June of 2023, greater than two years after the 2021 dying of Jennifer, a report claimed Bill is courting “Milkshake” hitmaker Kelis, a mother of three and widow after her husband handed away in March of 2022. Learn every thing there’s to learn about Bill’s marriages, and divorces, together with his rumored break up from Kelis under.
Margaret Kelly
Bill married Margaret “Mickey” Kelley in Las Vegas on January 25,1981, then had a second ceremony for his or her households in Chicago. “I thought he was trying to drive me insane,” Mickey advised Rolling Stone of the night time they eloped. The couple had two sons collectively, Homer, 40, now a widely known Brooklyn restaurateur, and Luke, an assistant coach for University of Louisville’s males’s basketball, 37. But by 1996 the connection had run its course, and amid rumors of an affair with costume designer Jennifer Butler, they divorced.
Still, Margaret, who reportedly met Bill on the set of his film Stripes, noticed the actor although lots of his most seen successes, together with Ghostbusters 1 and 2, Ed Wood, Tootsie, Scrooged, What About Bob, and Groundhog Day. Bill’s marriage to Margaret has flown below the radar, however he did give a touch of perception as to why it didn’t work out in a radio interview.
“Not to diminish a relationship with a woman … I can’t take on another relationship if I’m not taking care of the things I really need to take care of the most,” he advised Howard Stern in a 2014 radio look. “It’s not a selfish thing … it’s sort of an obligation.”
Shortly after his divorce from Margaret, Bill married costume designer Jennifer Butler, who is thought for her work on movies like Groundhog Day, Firestarter, and Last of the Mohicans. The 1997 wedding ceremony was the beginning of one thing large — Bill and Jennifer would in the end have 4 sons collectively and final over a decade earlier than lastly divorcing in 2008. Unfortunately, nonetheless, Bill and Jennifer’s entanglement wasn’t so simply untangled, and the dad and mom of Caleb, 27, Jackson, 25, Cooper, 24, and Lincoln, 20, publicly butted heads.
By the time it was all stated and carried out, Jennifer accused Bill of home violence, intercourse, marijuana, and alcohol addictions, and infidelity. She filed for divorce from him and obtained a finalized judgment in June of 2008. Sadly, Jennifer died on January 19, 2021 and a explanation for dying was by no means launched. “Those that knew her will remember an extraordinarily kind and generous person, a woman of principle, an absolute spitfire and a fiercely loyal mother,” her obituary learn.
Kelis
In June of 2023, a report emerged that Bill was courting “Milkshake” singer Kelis. The U.S Sun claimed for the June 8, 2023 report that he’d been seen at a number of Kelis exhibits — significantly one in London the earlier weekend. They had been additionally reportedly on the identical resort and had been “getting close for a while.”
“They’ve met up in the States before which got people in the industry talking, and now are meeting up in London while they’re both here,” the insider reportedly advised the outlet. “They’ve clearly hit it off. They were both seen at the same hotel, and he’s been to watch her perform several times before he went to Mighty Hoopla. But they’ve also both shared relatively recent bereavements and have that common bond between them. Whatever it is that has brought them together, and however unlikely it seems, they are both single and are having fun despite the fairly big age gap.” Kelis is 44 years previous and has three younger youngsters together with her late husband Mike Mora.
Just a couple of quick weeks into their rumored romance, Kelis broke her silence on her relationship with Bill by way of Instagram. “Ma’am would you care to address these Bill Murray allegations?!? Cuz damn! What he doing with all that?!?”, a fan commented on her bikini put up from Jun. 10. Kelis then wrote again, “Lol no babe, I wouldn’t bother at all.” Over two months later, on Aug. 24, the brunette magnificence confirmed that she was not courting Bill.
An admirer took to the feedback of her video concerning her stylish overalls to inquire about her rumored connection to Bill. “Kelis are you really dating Bill murray,” the fan requested, to which she clapped again, “ugh , no !” One day later, on Aug. 25, a report filed by The US Sun claimed that Kelis had damaged up with Bill after courting for 2 months. “Kelis and Bill were — and still are — very fond of each other but things just ran their course,” the insider advised the outlet on the time of the separation.
The supply near the duo additionally claimed that regardless of the breakup, Kelis and Bill hope to maintain it amicable. “They both have busy schedules and after a whirlwind romance decided to go their separate ways,” they added. “They hope to remain friends but also plan to get on with their lives.”