Melanie Griffith celebrated her birthday with her daughters and friends

The famous and very talented Hollywood actress Melanie Griffith became famous for her role as the determined and persistently successful Tess McGill.

The magnificent figure and perfect appearance of the young movie star, captured in a huge number of photographs, made the actress a real sex symbol of the last century, but also became the reason for the addiction of the actress, who was terrified of aging, to plastic surgery.

Brief biography and personal life

Melanie Griffith (a photo of the actress in her youth is shown below in the article) was born in August 1957 in the New York family of the actress and her husband, an advertising agent. 4 years after the birth of their daughter, Melanie’s parents divorced. The mother of the future star, the beautiful actress Tippi Hedren, married director Noel Marshall, with whom she moved to California and took her daughter with her.

The creative work of her parents became the reason for the early appearance of the future actress on the screens. The father featured 9-month-old Melanie in his commercial. Realizing that her life is a movie, Melanie first enrolls in acting courses and then graduates from the New York School of Dramatic Art.

While studying, the actress takes her first steps into cinema, appearing in The Harris Experiment, Smile and Starsky and Hutch.

The actress played her first serious roles in “Night Passages” and “The Drowned Pool”, after which the actress gained fame as a horror star, which was successfully dispelled after her work in “Army Story”, where Melanie, along with Jamie Lee Curtis and Susan Branchard, spoke humorously about the ups and downs army service.

Together with her family, the actress participated in the real experiment “Roar”, for which the Henden/Marshall family took a real lion into their house. Melanie and her brothers' play with the wild animal nearly turned fatal and left the actress and other family members seriously injured.

In 1982, Melanie was involved in a car accident, and a large amount of narcotic substances were found in her blood, which became the basis for the actress’s placement in a rehabilitation center. Two years later, Griffith returned to the screens in Double Bodies, and then played the role of Lulu in Wild Thing.

The roles of charming girls brought the actress work in “Working Girl,” where Sigourney Weaver and Harrison Ford became Melanie’s partners. Active and firmly striving for her goal, Tess McGill brought the actress worldwide recognition, an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe statuette.

From now on, the popular and titled actress, who loves to act surrounded by handsome men, appeared in:

• Thundery Monday;
• Pocket money;
• Conspiracy;
• Bonfire of vanity.

In the 90s of the last century, the actress starred in “Two is Too,” “Paradise” and “Lessons in Love,” and also played a minor role in the notorious “Lolita.” At the end of the 90s. Melanie tried herself on television, where she became part of Project 281, for which she received an Emmy award.

In the early 2000s. the actress played in the biopic about Frank Sinatra “The Night We Called Day”, and then tried herself in the theater, where she played the role of Roxie Hart in the famous “Chicago”, which was followed by work in “Nip/Tuck” and “Robot Chicken”.

The passion for plastic surgery has not gone unnoticed not only for the appearance of the movie star, but also for her acting career. The greatly changed face of the actress became the reason for the reduction of roles in subsequent years. The famous actress practically disappeared from the silver screen for several years, and then starred in “The Insurer,” “The Path,” “Hawaii Five-0,” “Woe to God” and “Dabka.”

Melanie Griffith first married in 1975 to Night Moves co-star Don Johnson. The marriage, filled with scandals, addiction to drugs and assault, lasted 4 years, after which the actors separated, and Melanie became the wife of Steve Bauer, who became famous for his participation in “Scarface.” In 1985, the couple had a son, Alexander, and 2 years later the couple separated.

Not very saddened by the divorce, Melanie quickly found solace in the arms of her first husband Don Johnson, with whom in 1989 she gave birth to a daughter, Dakota, the future star of “50 Shades of Gray.” Having again separated from her unstable husband, the actress was not alone for long.

On the set of “Two is Too,” Melanie conquered the famous macho Antonio Banderas, whom she married in 1996 and gave birth to her third daughter, Stella. For a long time considered one of the strongest, the couple lived together for more than 18 years, after which Antonio, tired of his wife’s passion for plastic surgery, which forced him to wake up every day with a new person, left his wife.

The divorce did not affect the relationship of the actors, and they were able to remain good friends. Having become free, Melanie focused on her children and their creative success.

Biography of Melanie Griffith

Hitchcock's Blonde Daughter

That same Hitchcock favorite is the mother of the actress, Tippi Hedren, whom the master discovered in the thriller “The Birds.” Tippy has Scandinavian and German roots, but the ancestors of her husband Peter Griffith (who acted in films as a child, then went into advertising and real estate) were from England. Soon after the birth of their only daughter Melanie (this happened on August 9, 1957), the relationship between Tippy and Peter went wrong, and in 1961 the couple separated.

Melanie Griffith's early biography and her youth took place in New York. The baby was filmed in advertising at the age of nine months. In 1969, she was an extra in the film Smith!, and in 1973 she appeared in the Harrad Experiment. Melanie's first big role was as Delly in the thriller Night Moves with Gene Hackman, directed by Arthur Penn, in which the 17-year-old debutante appeared in several racy scenes. This image of the nymphet was repeated by Griffith in other films released in 1975 (“Drowned Pool” and “Smile”).

The movie that almost cost your life

In 1981, Melanie played the namesake character in the adventure thriller Roar (and her on-screen mother was portrayed by her real mother, Hedren). It was a very dramatic filming - not only did it drag on for almost ten years (a broken dam destroyed the scenery and films, everything had to be re-shot), but also aggressive predators caused trouble. Director and screenwriter Noel Marshall, cinematographer Jan de Bont, Griffith and Hedren were attacked by lions. It was especially hard for the director - he spent a long time in the hospital, and Melanie’s face was wounded, and she underwent plastic surgery, applying fifty stitches; fortunately, the girl managed to save her eye.

A light in the end of a tunnel

In 1981, the television movie She's in the Army was released, in which Griffith starred with Jamie Lee Curtis and her future husband Steven Bauer. This period was not the best in Melanie Griffith’s biography; she suffered from severe alcohol and drug addiction. One day, the actress almost fell under the wheels of a car, and the ambulance workers who brought her to her senses quickly realized that the victim was insane and was under the influence of drugs.

Griffith's career was in jeopardy and it took several years to rehabilitate. She returned to the big screen as a porn actress in Brian De Palma's film Bodies. Despite the commercial failure of the film, Melanie was awarded the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1986, Griffith starred (already in the leading role) in the comedy-crime film Wild Thing by Jonathan Demme, in which Jeff Daniels played her character’s new boyfriend.

Lucky Tess McGill

Director Mike Nichols invited Griffith to play the role of the cheerful, passionate and very creative secretary Tess McGill in the comedy Working Woman. She gets a job at a company run by an attractive, ambitious lady (Sigourney Weaver). Taking advantage of the fact that the boss broke her leg, Tess successfully replaces it, receiving also a pleasant “bonus” in the form of the boss’s fiancé (Harrison Ford). To get into the role better, both Griffith and Weaver visited several firms and observed the work of managers and their leaders. The role of an enterprising assistant brought Melanie her only prestigious award - a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination.

With varied success

It would seem that after such success, Melanie Griffith’s biography should have been confidently going uphill, but the projects in which she starred did not live up to expectations. Who now remembers De Palma's dramedy Bonfire of the Vanities (even considering that Willis and Hanks starred in it)? Or Sidney Lumet's "A Miracle Among Us"?

For the western “Girls of the Wild West,” Griffith again received a Golden Globe nomination (but it was a TV movie not made for distribution). In 1997, she played in the film adaptation of Lolita - she became the hateful wife of Humbert (Jeremy Irons), who was actually obsessed with Charlotte's underage daughter.

In the late 1990s, the actress’s filmography was supplemented by the film “Celebrity” by Woody Allen, and in 2002 she starred in the thriller about card cheats “Dexterous Hands,” which neither Sylvester Stallone nor Gabriel Byrne saved from failure.

Unexpected Roxy

After this, Melanie appeared less and less on the silver screen, but acted for TV and played in the theater. In 1999, she made her debut at the Old Vic Theater in London, where she participated in the play “The Vagina Monologues” with Cate Blanchett, and in 2003 she became the heroine of the Broadway musical “Chicago” by Roxie Hart. Theater critic Ben Brantley was very impressed by this role, because the 46-year-old actress had never sung or danced before. He wrote: “Sensational Roxy, perhaps the most convincing I have seen! "The vultures who expected to see Mrs. Griffith stumble will have to look elsewhere for their prey."

In 2014, the film “The Insurer” was released, in which Melanie appeared with her husband Antonio Banderas (previously, her husband filmed her in his directorial project “A Woman Without Rules”). However, the post-apocalyptic action movie did not win the public's attention, and soon after that the actors' marriage fell apart. And Griffith began to be remembered more often as a victim of not very successful plastic surgery.

Shape Options

Melanie Griffith (the photo of the actress in her youth amazes with the perfection of her features and freshness) is one of the most famous blondes in Hollywood, surpassing her mother, actress Tippi Hedren, in beauty.

The young star’s sophisticated appearance, blond hair, thin facial features, as if made of marble, blue eyes and slender figure brought her the fame of a real “sex symbol”, which even women’s favorite Antonio Banderas could not resist.

Pathologically afraid of aging, the actress became interested in plastic surgery, which later not only changed her face beyond recognition, but also became the cause of a dangerous oncological disease.

Figure parameters:

How has it changed over the years?

Melanie Griffith (photos of the movie star in her youth have repeatedly become a real decoration of glossy magazines) by nature had an ideal appearance, inherited from her mother, that fully complied with the beauty standards accepted in Hollywood.

Periodically adapting to fashion changes, the actress experiments with haircuts, either creating a platinum crew cut on her hair or returning blond curls. Following fashion, Melanie carefully plucks her eyebrows, transforming them into fashionable ones in the 80s. thin threads.

Noticing the first signs of age-related changes, the actress decides not only to change her hairstyle, but also performs a minor facial correction.

The result impressed the actress so much that she continued her passion for plastic surgery, despite the fact that her face began to turn into a kind of wax mask. The actress, who was afraid of aging, was not affected even by the arguments of her husband, who begged her to stop the experiments.

The photo shows how Melanie Griffith's appearance changed.

In addition to her passion for plastic surgery, with age, signs of the actress’s harmful addiction to alcohol and drugs in her youth appeared, as well as signs of deep, protracted depression associated with divorces and failures in her personal life, which added swelling, bruises and tissue ptosis to the star’s appearance.

The actress tries to carefully disguise her changed appearance using a large amount of cosmetics. Only Melanie’s figure has remained in excellent shape, which the star carefully maintains with training and strict nutrition, and, when necessary, does not disdain liposuction.

Actress Melanie Griffith

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Undoubtedly, Melanie Griffith is known to her fans for her numerous films. But to be honest, many people know the couple Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas.

The future actress was born in August 1957. Since childhood, Melanie herself has been accustomed to being in.

Despite the father's efforts to get closer to his daughter, he had less and less time to raise her. Mother Griffith took the initiative into her own hands. “I missed my father’s attention in late childhood.

I needed him so much... But my mother adequately replaced both family members for me and I never felt disadvantaged.” Since Melanie’s mother was a famous supermodel, her daughter also had to connect her life with creativity. “I was fortunate to receive an enviable education. First, I studied at a professional school in Hollywood, and then attended Adler’s courses in New York.” Melanie Griffith's first video work came out when the actress herself was only 9 months old! It was an ordinary commercial, but it predetermined Melanie's future fate.

Melanie Griffith photo #2

Griffith's career developed rather primitively: she tried to break through, but was rejected. Then they began to give small roles, but the actress wanted more. Finally she got what she wanted. Actress Melanie Griffith starred in the thriller Night Moves. “The director cast me because of my appearance.

I was told that it doesn’t matter what acting talent I have, because my appearance can convey the appearance of the heroine - a girl who belongs to the generation living according to the principle of “sex-drugs-rock-n-roll”. I was only 15, but there were scenes of an intimate nature in the film that did not bother me much. I wasn’t afraid to take my clothes off in front of the cameras.”

The next film, “The Drowned Pool,” only confirmed the actress’s popularity. Films with Melanie Griffith could have all had similar content if not for the actress herself. “I had a certain image. This is a kind of Lolita nymphet who can seduce any man. But I grew up and tried to prove to everyone that I was a professional and not a pretty face.” “Army Story” with Melanie Griffith was able to just confirm her ideas.

However, the actress did not fail to follow all the paths taken by actors who have achieved fame. In 1982, Griffith was hit by a car. Doctors found her in critical condition. But not only injuries were found on the actress’s body, but also drugs in her blood. “Since all the newspapers wrote that I was a drug addict, I had no choice but to leave the big movie screens. I immediately decided to start treatment, it’s good that at that time there were people who loved and supported me.”

Melanie Griffith photo #3

Melanie returned to the screens in 1984, 2 years after the sad incident, starring in the film “Dummy Body.” The film again had sexual content, just like in the old days. “My heroine Gloria was naked every evening at the open window, but one evening it ended tragically for her: the girl was killed. Although the role did not shine with special intelligence, I decided that this would be a good topic for returning to the screen.” Melanie's mother was absolutely against this kind of filming.

They were completely different in temperament. “Even though my mother was a model, she was always sophisticated and would not have been able to get completely naked as easily as I did.” All the roles in the biography of Melanie Griffith were significant for fans: either she introduced the fashion for leather, appearing in the image of an ardent feminist with a whip at the ready, or she mannerly pulled up her skirt at the helm, which many fans of her work did not fail to adopt.

Little is known about the actress’s personal life. She fiercely protects her from the paparazzi intrusion. “My personal life should remain only mine. I don’t understand why the hell you will delve into its details?!” But not much could be hidden. Melanie Griffith's constantly new lovers became the objects of increased attention from the tabloids. Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson were together for some time and even tied the knot.

“We fell in love with each other like crazy and immediately signed. Both understood that the marriage would not be strong, but they still hoped for something.” The next attempt to become happy was made with Steven Bauer. But she was not crowned with success either. Although this time the marriage lasted for 7 years! The third attempt to start a family took place again with Johnson. The broken cup could not be repaired with another defect. The fourth attempt of Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas was the most famous of all the actress’s marriages.

Melanie Griffith photo #4

Melanie Griffith and Antonio first met on the set of the film Two is Too Much. “Even at the beginning of the filming process, I noted to myself that Banderas is quite good-looking. But I chalked it up to an ordinary woman’s non-resistance to Antonio’s charms. After all, what girl could resist him?!” But the relationship gradually developed, and by the end of filming they were already being talked about as a couple. Many participants in the filming process noted that they saw the sparkling eyes of both actors when they looked at each other.

But the real shock for everyone was the recent divorce of Melanie Griffith and Antonio. The couple lived in a happy marriage for 18 years. It would seem that nothing can destroy it. The reason for the rupture of such a strong union was ordinary jealousy on Melanie’s part! Banderas has been spotted more than once in the company of young models. What kind of wife would like that her husband prefers the company of women 30 years younger than her to her company?

It was hard for Melanie to keep track of all her husband’s infidelities. “The same situation happened with Jones. He constantly cheated, and I ran and watched his every move. I didn’t want history to repeat itself, so I decided it was easier to let go than to suffer.”

The daughter of Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas is literally a copy of her star parents. The girl herself decided to follow in her mother’s footsteps and has already starred in several projects. Melanie’s career has stalled somewhat, but fans hope that the actress will return to the screen soon.

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Plastic surgery

Melanie Griffith has become an advertisement for plastic surgery, and the number of operations she has performed numbers dozens.

A very beautiful star by nature, suffering from an inferiority complex due to her father leaving the family and problems in her first unsuccessful marriages, she was pathologically afraid of aging and repeatedly carried out:

• Lip correction with fillers , which initially returned the natural plumpness and sensuality to her mouth, but then simply led to the “inverted mouth effect.”
• Rhinoplasty. Having decided to make a small adjustment to the tip of her almost perfect nose, the actress chose the wrong surgeon, who disfigured her respiratory organ. Melanie tried to correct her nose, which was flattened after correction, several times, but achieved only little success.
• Blepharoplasty, which initially changed the shape of the eyes and gave the actress a cat-like look, and then, during subsequent operations, led to drooping eyelids and problems with blinking.
• Circular tightening of the skin of the face and neck , which made it possible to remove wrinkles, emphasize the chin and prevent age-related changes, but could not withstand the consequences of long-term use of alcohol and illegal drugs.
• Repeated facial contouring with fillers , which led to cheek recession and skin migration.
• Liposuction, which reduced the volume of fatty tissue on the abdomen.
• Botox injections. The actress became one of the first stars to try botulinum toxin injections, but was overly carried away by the drug, a large amount of which made her face completely motionless.

Numerous operations caused the appearance of skin cancer, which the actress successfully dealt with at the initial stage.

After the divorce, the actress realized her mistake. On her Instagram page, she noted that she realized that she had made a fatal mistake after reading a number of comments on her photos. Melanie also noted that she had found a doctor who would help her regain her previous appearance and hopes that now she looks much better.

Appearance after plastic surgery

Melanie Griffith, who in her youth was considered the standard of female beauty, which is confirmed by numerous photographs of the actress, has since turned into a nightmare for contour plastic specialists. Due to blepharoplasty, the actress’s luxurious eyes became greatly narrowed, her lips, faced with a large number of fillers, became unnaturally inverted, and her facial skin became very tense.

The unpleasant changes also became a symptom of the actress’s harmful long-term alcoholism, which caused her skin to sag even after a circular face and neck lift.

Cosmetology procedures

A strong passion for cosmetic procedures played a cruel joke on Melanie Griffith, severely drying out her facial skin.

The actress, who knows no moderation, is a regular client of beauty salons, where she conducts:

• ultrasonic cleaning;
• chemical pilling;
• hyaluronic acid injections;
• mesotherapy.

The procedures carried out, if used a couple of times every few months, would allow the actress to maintain youthful skin, but their excessive amount, as well as the skin heavily dried out by Botox, does not allow the actress to acquire the fresh and youthful look that she so desperately strives for.

Filmography and star journey of the actress

Melanie Griffith began her career very early: at the age of nine months she starred in a commercial. After moving to California, the aspiring actress appeared in various episodes of the semi-documentary series Roar, filmed for the protection of animals. In 1975, Melanie received a fairly serious role in the thriller Night Moves. Thanks to this, the image of a “sexually liberated nymphet” was assigned to Griffith for a long time.

But in 1982, actress Melanie Griffith had to take a break from her work: the girl was hit by a car, and arriving doctors discovered drugs in the victim’s blood. Only two years later did Griffith return to work again. “Fake Body”, “City of Fear”, “Miami Vice: Vice” - in 1984 alone she starred in three films. What made her famous was the painting “Wild Thing,” where Melanie appeared as a feminist, wearing leather and holding a whip.

For her role in Working Girl (1988), the actress received a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Oscar. Then she played roles in “Two is Too Much,” “No Fools,” “Nips of the Body” and many other projects, including the actress doing voice acting for cartoons. In 1999, the famous HBO channel invited the actress to Project 281, for which the actress was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy.

Wanting to try something new, Melanie Griffith played Roxie in the musical Chicago on Broadway in 2003. She also received a theater critic column for The New York Times.

Beauty secrets

Melanie Griffith is not only a regular client of a plastic surgeon and cosmetologist, but also carefully takes care of herself on her own.

Facial care

The actress tries to cleanse her skin of makeup every day by taking a bath, even if she is very tired and returned home late. After cleansing, Melanie applies an anti-aging serum or cream to her face to care for and nourish the skin while you sleep.

As a true Los Angeles resident, Griffith does not leave the house without applying sunscreen to her skin, because she is well aware of the negative effects of ultraviolet rays on the skin and is afraid of the return of tissue cancer.

Diet

The actress's figure at the age of 60 continues to remain surprisingly slim, which is mainly due to proper nutrition. Melanie Griffith loves fish and tries to make her diet from seafood, as well as a large variety of vegetables, fruits, bran, cereals and boiled eggs.

Afraid of gaining weight and also harming her body, the actress completely gave up meat, fried, fatty and smoked foods, and also never eats fast food or canned food.

The actress's favorite products are:

• ginger, which the actress loves for its ability to speed up metabolism and fat-burning properties;
• broccoli, which does not contain many calories, is an excellent antioxidant and good prevention of breast cancer;
• morels, which are a source of protein for the meat-free actress;
• dill, which is rich in various microelements and helps fight cellulite and swelling;
• Avocado is rich in fatty acids and goes well with seafood.

For dessert, the actress consumes dark chocolate, dates or dried fruits, which help maintain vascular tone. The movie star also loves a variety of desserts made from cottage cheese or natural yogurt.

If she needs to lose weight, Melanie goes on a “marine” diet, cutting her usual diet to 1200 kcal. During the diet, the actress allows herself to eat every 3 hours, but in small portions, and her diet consists mainly of fish dishes and seafood.

In addition to proper nutrition, the actress tries to drink at least 1.5 liters of water daily.

The actress, who previously suffered from alcohol and drug addiction, was completely cured with the help of her ex-husband Antonio Banderas. For more than 10 years, Melanie Griffith has not drunk strong alcohol, only occasionally allowing herself a glass of dry white wine with dinner.

Sport

Having decided to change her life and give up illegal substances, the actress began a new life and actively took up sports. Melanie does exercises every day and goes to the gym several times a week, which allows her to keep her figure in great shape.

The actress also considers herself a big fan of yoga and Pilates, and sometimes, if she is too lazy to exercise, she goes for a long walk.

Hot photos

Photos of young naked Melanie Griffith have repeatedly become the adornment of not only the silver screen, but also glossy magazines.

So her sexy body was demonstrated in almost all films, but the most memorable were the erotic scenes in:

• Light in darkness;
• Smile;
• Bonfire of Vanities;
• Garden;
• A dummy body.

In 1976, the actress became a Playboy heroine, appearing completely naked in an erotic photo shoot for the magazine.

During her marriage, the actress behaved quite modestly, but after her divorce from Antonio Banderas, Melanie began to constantly update her Instagram with photos in skimpy swimsuits and underwear. Under the photographs, the 62-year-old actress left the inscription that she was very glad that she was finally able to love her body and hopes that she now looks much better.

Melanie Griffith: 'I played Banderas' wife for too long'

At the Locarno Film Festival, the Oscar-nominated star of films by Brian De Palma and Woody Allen presented the short film Thirst by young director Rachel MacDonald, in which she very convincingly played the suffering fairy from the bar.

- You have a rather bold role in this film - an elderly person of depraved behavior...

— First of all, because there was something to play! This is such a rarity in scripts now... For this to be a character that you would like to sink your teeth into, grab him and not let go, turn him into a living person - this happens very rarely. In addition, as a former alcoholic, I knew the material well and could use it...

You know, when I drank, I called myself Vicious Vicky... I've never told anyone that before. I came up with a heroine for myself - it was as if she was coming out of me, as if it was she who was drinking, and not me, you know? And when I played Sue, I played exactly my alter ego, that feeling of quiet despair that I myself went through.

— For some time, it seems you haven’t acted at all...

— Now I receive more invitations than before. Many simply thought that I had left the acting profession and did not want to act anymore. But I really didn’t want to! I was very busy being the wife of Antonio Banderas, raising our daughter Stella... My other children are older, but I love just being a mom! And further. I starred in Antonio's film Crazy in Alabama when I turned 41. Then in Hollywood it was believed that this was it, the end, you were already old and no one needed you. Not getting roles when you really wanted them was a real shame. When my friends and I of the same age were given a role, we rejoiced like girls.

A lot has changed now. But we need to escape from all this Hollywood nonsense!

— What do you think about the expression “50 is the new 30”?

- I like it! When I turned 50, my children and Antonio just wrote a song called “50 is the new 30.” It was so cute! And now I’m 56, but consider it 36.

— What would you like in your life now?

— Work more with children! I already work with them a lot in children's hospitals. In general, I have a lot of ideas. I would like to write scripts and direct my own film. And at the same time I’m thinking about why don’t I go somewhere to Asia and become a monk there or at least teach yoga? I don’t have any terrible addiction to cinema or theater. For me it's just entertainment that I like.

Melanie Griffith's 5 best films:

1. "Dummy Body" (1984)
2. "Something Wild" (1986)
3. "Working Woman" (1988)
4. "Lolita" (1997)
5. "Celebrity" (1998)

ALIEN'S POCKET

The most expensive divorces on the planet*

1. Alex and Jocelyn Wildenstein. 1999

Compensation: $2.5 billion plus $100 million annually for 13 years.

This is the amount it cost the French billionaire to part with his eccentric wife, the famous “Catwoman”. She performed 3 dozen plastic surgeries, allegedly in order to tie Alex, who loved cats. Did not help.

2. Rupert and Anna Murdoch. 1999

Compensation: $1.7 billion.

The media mogul married journalist Anna, who came to interview him. After 32 years, Rupert left the mother of three children for a younger journalist.

3. Bernie and Slavika Ecclestone. year 2009

Compensation: $1.2 billion.

The president of Formula 1 and his beloved model Giorgio Armani lived together for 24 years.

4. Adnan and Soraya Khashoggi. 1974

Compensation: $874 million.

The arms dealer, the uncle of Princess Diana's fiancé Dodi al Fayed, lived for 13 years with an Englishwoman, Sandra, who took the Muslim name Soraya. He separated after a DNA test showed that the biological father of his daughter Petrina is an English parliamentarian.

5. Steve and Elaine Wynn. 2010

Compensation: $750 million.

The future American gambling magnate married a smart, beautiful classmate back in 1963. Elaine took an active part in her husband's business. Now she is a billionaire herself.

6. Craig and Wendy McCoy. 1998

Compensation: $460 million.

Students got married. Craig made a business out of cellular communications. Officially, the billionaire separated from his wife after 21 years due to “dissimilarity of characters.”

7. Mel and Robin Gibson. 2011

Compensation: $425 million.

The Hollywood star lived with Robin for 31 years. They have seven children. The reason for the divorce is Mel’s affair with singer from Saransk Oksana Grigorieva. Robin received half of Gibson's fortune, two mansions in Malibu worth $22.5 million and some other property. Mel will also have to pay her half of all future movie earnings.

8. Robert Johnson and Sheila Crump. 2002

Compensation: $400 million.

Media mogul Johnson lived with Sheila for 33 years. She married the judge who divorced them.

9. Roman and Irina Abramovich. 2007

Compensation: $300 million.

The former flight attendant gave birth to five children for the Chelsea owner. After 16 years, the marriage broke up. Abramovich became interested in Dasha Zhukova.

10. Michael and Maya Polsky. 2006

Compensation: $184 million.

In 1976, the couple emigrated from the USSR with 500 bucks. In the US, Michael made millions in the energy industry. The court gave almost half to his ex-wife.

*According to Forbes.

Achievements and interesting facts

Melanie Griffith (the photo of the actress in her youth became a sensation in Playboy magazine) is one of the most talented and titled actresses in Hollywood.

Over the years of work in film and television, the movie star has become:

• Oscar nominee;
• 4-time red nominee and 2-time Golden Globe winner;
• 2-time Emmy and BAFTA nominee;
• winner of the Boston Society of Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics awards.

Interesting facts about Melanie Griffith:

• The actress began her career in infancy, starring in her father’s commercials, and as she grew older she almost gave up television because, due to her shyness, she was very afraid to look into the camera lens.
• Melanie met her first husband, actor Don Johnson, on the set. The actress was 14 years old, and Johnson was 22, and he played in the film with the actress’s mother.
• Participation in the reality project “Roar”, during which the actress’s parents placed a live lion in their house, became a hit, but almost cost the actress her life.
• The actress’s first works involved a large number of erotic scenes, but Melanie herself has a very negative attitude towards nudity on the screen and says that she would never act in porn films.
• Melanie never goes to the premieres of her films because she considers it a bad omen.
• The daughter of actress Dakota Johnson became an actress and received real recognition after playing the role of Anastasia in “50 Shades of Grey.”
• Despite the divorce, Melanie maintains friendly relations with Antonio Banderas, and the actor has repeatedly said that he considers his ex-wife one of the most beautiful women and his true love.
• The actress has a small tattoo of a tulip on her buttock, and on her forearm she has a tattoo in the shape of a heart with the name of her former beloved husband placed in it.

One of the most talented and famous actresses in Hollywood, Melanie Griffith, in her youth was considered a real standard of beauty and perfection.

The luxurious body of a movie star and perfect facial features, captured in many photographs, became not only the calling card of the actress, but also her curse, afraid of losing which Melanie performed a record number of plastic surgeries, which led to sad consequences and severely disfigured the actress’s appearance.

Personal life[ | ]

Griffith and Don Johnson in September 1990.
At the age of 14, Griffith began dating 22-year-old Don Johnson, her mother's co-star in The Harrad Experiment.

"[10]. They married in January 1976, but divorced in July of that year.[10] Later, she was credited with having affairs with actors Jack Nicholson,[11] Warren Beatty and Ryan O'Neal[12]. In her autobiography, the latter's daughter, Tatum O'Neal, claimed that Griffith dragged her into an orgy with Maria Schneider and a male hairdresser, while Melanie herself was dating her father.[12]

On September 8, 1981, Griffith married actor Steven Bauer, with whom she starred in the film Army Story

" Their son, Alexander Griffith Bauer, was born on August 22, 1985. The couple divorced in July 1989 after a long separation.[13] After their breakup, Griffith had problems with cocaine and alcohol.[10]

In 1988, after completing a rehabilitation course[10], Griffith got back together with Don Johnson. They married for the second time on June 26, 1989. Their daughter, Dakota Johnson, was born on October 4, 1989. They separated in March 1994,[10] but later reconciled briefly again, finally separating in May 1995.

On the set of the film “ Two is Too Much”

"Griffith met actor Antonio Banderas[14]. After their divorces were finalized (Griffiths from Johnson and Banderas from his wife Ana Lesa), they married on May 14, 1996.[15] Their daughter, Stella del Carmen Banderas Griffith, was born on September 24, 1996.

In 2000, Griffith underwent rehabilitation for painkiller addiction.[16] She underwent another three-month rehabilitation course in 2009, which her publicist called a “routine check-up.”[17] In December of the same year, Griffith underwent surgery to remove skin cancer.[18] In September 2020, it became known that Griffith had undergone another operation related to skin cancer - this time she had a basal cell carcinoma removed from her nose[19]. In October 2017, Griffith admitted that she has suffered from epilepsy for more than twenty years, but was only diagnosed in 2011.[20]

In June 2014, Griffith and Banderas announced their intention to divorce, noting that the divorce would be conducted "in an amicable and loving manner."[21] The reason for divorce was “irreconcilable differences”[22]. The divorce was finalized in December 2020[23]. Banderas stated that he would always love Griffith[24], and they starred together in the film Insurer

"(2014), which was filmed during their divorce proceedings.