The National Enquirer says trouble has been brewing since 2007, “when the couple engaged in a ‘slapfest’ outside the famed Beverly Hills eatery Nate ‘n Al after arguing over where to sit.” Hollywood glamour at its finest!
Various sources claim that Southwick is Larry King’s seventh wife and that this is his eighth divorce, since he was married to Alene Atkins twice in the 1960s.
However, FilmReference.com, among others, says that his first marriage ended in annulment. That makes the full roll call, as closely as we can figure it:
Freda Miller, 1952 (he was 19 — marriage later annulled)
Annette Kaye, c. 1960 (divorced 1961)
Alene Akins (a Playboy bunny!), 1961 (divorced 1963)
Mickey Sutphin, 1964 (divorced c. 1966)
Alene Akins, remarried 1967 (divorced 1971)
Sharon Lepore (some sources call her Sharon Dorl), 1976 (divorced c. 1982)
Julia Alexander, 1989 (divorced 1992)
Shawn Southwick 1997 (filed for divorce, 2010)
King revealed last year that he had a previously unknown son, Larry King Jr., from his brief marriage to Annette Kaye — so brief that King was on to wife #3 (the Playboy bunny) before Larry Jr. was even born. King also has a daughter and a son with Akins, a daughter with Sutphin, and two sons with Southwick. Dude could have played in the NBA.
That’s why we are hereby adding Larry King to our loop on Serial Spouses. He now joins Zsa Zsa Gabor, King Henry VIII, and those other jolly scalawags who have gone through marriage licenses like most of us go through paper towels.
The good news for Larry: Liz Taylor is still available!
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