8 celebrity families who divorced after 25 years of happy marriage

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Once these couples were called the strongest and set as an example. They lived together for many years, shared in half the joys and sorrows, raised children and, perhaps, hoped to be there until the last days. But a moment came when the family suddenly ceased to exist, and two once close people suddenly became strangers. In our today's review, star couples of politicians, businessmen, actors and representatives of show business, who broke up after 25 or more years of marriage.

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Tatiana Vlasova

Marital experience: 48 years

For almost half a century, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan convinced Tatyana Vlasova of his love and devotion. He did not like to say beautiful words, but he always noted: parting with her would be like losing hands. Tatyana Vlasova called him Armen-dzhan and sincerely believed her husband. When he bought a house in Dallas in 1998 and persuaded her to start arranging their family nest overseas, she agreed. At first, her husband often visited her in America, but then visits and calls became less and less frequent.

In 2015, 48 years after their wedding, they were officially divorced. As it turned out, he had a new girlfriend for a long time, Vitalina Tsymbalyuk-Romanovskaya, whom he married in 2016. True, this union ended not only in divorce, but also in a loud scandal. In 2018, information appeared that Armen Dzhigarkhanyan was ready to return to Tatyana Vlasova.

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Oleg Tabakov and Lyudmila Krylova

Marital experience: 35 years

He was 24, and she was only 21 years old when Oleg Tabakov and Lyudmila Krylova became husband and wife. They raised two children who followed in the footsteps of their parents' actors. But then everything collapsed in one moment. Lyudmila Krylova learned that her husband had an affair with young Marina Zudina. In 1994, the couple separated. Oleg Tabakov married his young lover, became the father of two more children and lived happily with his second wife until the end of his days. Lyudmila Krylova was never able to forgive the betrayal and refused even to come to the funeral of the person she once loved.

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Evgeny Petrosyan and Elena Stepanenko

Marital experience: 33 years

Everyone considered the marriage of Yevgeny Petrosyan and Elena Stepanenko to be happy. Once upon a time, their romance began with a joint work. They all seemed to be a very harmonious and strong couple. They lived and worked together, sharing each other's hobbies and interests. Even when periodically there were publications about their separation, in fact, they turned out to be a PR move, stirring up interest in the spouses. But in 2018, Elena Stepanenko filed for divorce, and Evgeny Petrosyan began to appear in society with his young friend and director Tatyana Brukhunova.

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Vladimir and Lyudmila Putin

Marital experience: 30 years

The news of the dissolution of Vladimir and Lyudmila Putin came as a real surprise. They lived together for 30 years, raised two wonderful daughters and broke up because they stopped seeing each other. The president was at work much more often than at home, and publicity was extremely burdensome for Lyudmila Alexandrovna. In an interview after Putin's visit to the Esmeralda ballet at the State Kremlin Palace, the couple made an official statement about their separation. However, according to Vladimir Putin, they remained close people after the divorce, while their communication became much better than before the divorce. In 2016, Lyudmila Putina married a second time, and Vladimir Vladimirovich remains single and prefers not to talk about his personal life.

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Elena Proklova and Andrey Trishin

Marital experience: 30 years

They were very different, but they lived together for 30 years before they decided to leave. However, according to the actress, their life together was never cloudless, although it seemed quite harmonious from the outside. The spouses fully shared each other's interests: they went hunting together, raised carp in the pond and were engaged in farming. However, over the years, mutual claims appeared, which led to a divorce.

The ex-husband claimed that the actress had ceased to look after herself and the house, Elena Proklova herself categorically disagreed with these accusations, but at the same time she initiated the divorce. But even after the official dissolution of the marriage, the former spouses retained quite friendly relations, and they continue to live in the same house.

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Vladimir and Natalya Potanin

Marital experience: 30 years

Before their marriage, Vladimir and Natalya Potanin met for five whole years. In 1983, they officially registered their marriage, in which three children were born. But in 2014, the businessman initiated a divorce proceedings. The divorce was accompanied by loud scandals, a showdown and the division of property. The reason for the separation was very commonplace: by that time, Vladimir Potanin already had a new girlfriend, his employee Ekaterina. Soon after Potanin's divorce, the lovers went down the aisle.

Fedor and Svetlana Bondarchuk

Marital experience: 25 years

They met back in 1986, when Fyodor Bondarchuk was still a conscript. They were happy together, brought up two children, rejoiced at the appearance of their grandchildren. But in 2016, they announced a divorce and even filed documents for it. Despite the fact that their marriage is still not officially dissolved, everyone has a life of their own for a long time. At the same time, Svetlana and Fyodor Bondarchuk managed to part without scandals and public clarifications of relations.

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Alena Apina and Alexander Iratov

Marital experience: 25 years

Long years of marriage and the birth of a daughter did not save the family of Alena Apina. She herself decided to put an end to her relationship with her husband, believing that their feelings were over, and a family simply could not exist without love. Alexander Iratov considered his wife's act a betrayal towards him. Unlike his wife, he did not see any problems in their relationship. The singer was determined to maintain a friendly relationship, but her ex-husband saw the situation in a completely different way. In the fall of 2016, the couple divorced.

In the British city of Manchester, Dorothy Dawson, who is already 80 years old, filed for divorce from her 84-year-old husband Barry, with whom they lived together for 62 years. During this time, the couple raised 6 children, and they had 13 grandchildren. The reason for the divorce was not trivial - the woman found out that her husband, who for many years pretended to be deaf and did not utter a single word, hears perfectly and can speak. It’s just that all these years he didn’t want to listen to her chatter.