Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson broke up the second marriage between them. Griffith soon found herself in the arms of Spanish actor Antonio Banderas. Actor Tommy Lee Jones filed for divorce this year. So did singer Natalie Cole. Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere and Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson also called it quits.
Marriage is tough enough.
Then when you start moving into an arena where there's tremendous egos and seductions at every turn, a person's spirit is doubly challenged. I think that creates a specific problem of competition. If one person is working and another is not, it creates an extra stress and burden on the relationship. Of course, not all Hollywood marriages fall apart like a bad movie plot. Funny man Don Rickles has been married for 30 years.