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KNOT LONG

SPLITSVILLE, USA

The clock was running out from the day they said, ''I do.'' Here are some of the shortest Hollywood matches on record: * CHER AND GREGG ALLMAN Married: June 1975. Cher files for divorce: July 1975. Divorced: 1978.

* MIKE TYSON AND ROBIN GIVENS Married: February 1988. Givens files for divorce: October 1988. Divorced: February 1989.

* CARRIE FISHER AND PAUL SIMON Married: August 1983. Separated: July 1984. Divorce granted that year.

* JANET JACKSON AND JAMES DEBARGE Married: August 1984. Marriage annulled: March 1985.

* ETHEL MERMAN AND ERNEST BORGNINE Married: June 1964, for 38 days.

* MICHELLE PHILLIPS AND DENNIS HOPPER Married: October 1970, for eight days. (Shortest marriage in Hollywood history.)

* DON JOHNSON AND MELANIE GRIFFITH Married for the first time: 1976. Divorced: 1977. (Remarried: 1989.)

* HARRY HAMLIN AND NICOLETTE SHERIDAN Married: September 1991. Announced separation: August 1992.

Originally posted Aug 28, 1992 Published in issue #133 Aug 28, 1992 Order article reprints

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