Current Events > POLL: Jerry Lee Lewis marrying his 13-year-old cousin

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He was 22, she was 13. There was controversy back then, to be sure, but most people have forgotten about this and only remember JLL for "Great Balls of Fire." What do you think?

That's fucking gross.

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It's gross in so many ways. The fact that she was also family probably means he was grooming her from an age much younger than 13, but her officially being a teenager made it "slightly less gross" for them to get married back in the day.

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Can we get the IP address of the guy who voted for option 2 and forward it to the FBI please

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What's interesting is that of the seven times he's been married, the union with his child cousin is second longest marriage he's had.

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It wasn't even okay then. The uproar made him cancel his tour and he didn't make successful music again for years (and was never as popular as he was in the 50s).

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Was it a love thing, a lust thing or a keeping the money in the family sort of thing?

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Lewis has been married seven times.[40] He had six children during his marriages. In 1962, his son Steve Allen Lewis drowned in a swimming pool accident at age three, and in 1973, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jr. died at the age of 19[41][42] when he overturned the Jeep he was driving.[41]
When he was 16 he married Dorothy Barton, daughter of a preacher.[43] Their union lasted for 20 months, from February 1952 to October 1953.[41]
His second marriage, to Jane Mitchum, was of dubious validity because it occurred 23 days before his divorce from Barton was final. It lasted for four years (September 1953 October 1957). The couple had two children: Jerry Lee Lewis Jr. (19541973) and Ronnie Guy Lewis (b. 1956).
His third marriage was to 13-year-old Myra Gale Brown, his first cousin once removed. Their marriage lasted 13 years (December 1957 December 1970). The couple went through a second marriage ceremony because his divorce from Jane Mitchum was not complete before the first ceremony took place. In 1970, Brown filed for divorce on the grounds of adultery and abuse;[44] charging that she had been "subject to every type of physical and mental abuse imaginable."[45] They had two children: Steve Allen Lewis (19591962) and Phoebe Allen Lewis (b. 1963).
His fourth marriage was to Jaren Elizabeth Gunn Pate (October 1971 June 8, 1982). Pate drowned in a swimming pool at the home of a friend with whom she was staying, several weeks before divorce proceedings could be finalized.[46] They had one daughter, Lori Lee Lewis (b. 1972).
Mary Kathy 'K.K.' Jones of San Antonio, Texas, testified in court during Lewis' income tax evasion trial in 1984 that she lived with him from 1980 to 1983.[47]
His fifth marriage, to Shawn Stephens, lasted 77 days, from June to August 1983, ending with her death.[48] Journalist Richard Ben Cramer alleged that Lewis abused her and may have been responsible for her death, but the allegations have never been verified.[49]
His sixth marriage, to Kerrie McCarver, lasted 21 years, from April 1984 to June 2005. They have one child: Jerry Lee Lewis III (b. 1987).[50]
In 1993, Lewis moved to Ireland with his family in what was suggested (but denied) to be a move to avoid issues with the Internal Revenue Service.[51] He lived in a rented house in Westminster Road, Foxrock, Dublin, and during his time there was sued by the German company Neue Constantin Film Production GmbH for failure to appear at a concert in Munich in 1993.[52] Lewis returned to the US in 1997 after his tax issues had been resolved by Irish promoter Kieran Cavanagh.[53]
Lewis married his seventh wife Judith Lewis (ne Brown) on March 9, 2012.[40] The next day, Lewis severed business ties with his daughter Phoebe Lewis-Loftin who was his manager and revoked her power of attorney.[54] In 2017, Lewis sued his daughter and her husband Zeke Loftin claiming that she owed him "substantial sums of money."[55] In the lawsuit, Lewis, his wife Judith Lewis, and his son Jerry Lee Lewis III also claimed Loftin had defamed them on Facebook. Lewis-Loftin and her husband counter-sued, claiming Judith Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis III had interfered in the business relationship. In April 2019, U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers ruled that most of claims were barred by a three-year statute of limitations with the exception of the defamation claims.[54]

wtf @ his life

And First cousin once removed is basically one of his parents first cousins right?

If 10 year olds can determine they want to be a different gender at 10 then a 13 year old should be about to marry a 22 year old. Right?

You see how fucking stupid that sounds? God damn snowflakes. Of course its fucking wrong for a 13 year old to marry a god damn 22 year old. Ffs.

https://i.imgur.com/u07Lmj2.jpg

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"You've got to get them young so you can raise them right."

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