17 Well-known Males Who “Dated” Teenagers And Obtained Away With It

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Musical legend Prince started an allegedly platonic Relationship with Mayte Garcia when she was solely 16. After her mother slipped him a tape of her stomach dancing, he invited her backstage and later again to his lodge room. Each events denied having a sexual relationship till she was 19, however Prince later claimed he knew she’d be his spouse upon assembly her, and Mayte says that “He by no means denied that the occasional impure thought crossed his thoughts, however he was too smart and respectable to benefit from a 16-year-old woman.”

Whereas they at first corresponded from afar, Prince grew to become her authorized guardian when she was 17. She then moved in with him and danced on his tour. At 19, Mayte says that Prince informed her it was time to go on contraception, they usually started a sexual relationship. The 2 wed in 1996, when Mayte was 22, and broke up in 2000.

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Eighties star Rick Springfield (the singer of “Jessie’s Girl”) dated Linda Blair (the child from The Exorcist) when he was 25 and he or she was solely 15. In actual fact, he proudly wrote concerning the truth in his autobiography: “I am her first lover, and she is an enthusiastic learner… We share a love of dogs and sex —separately, not in combination. Most of the time, we don’t leave the apartment. She’s invited to premieres and Hollywood parties, and we go as a couple, blindly and innocently to the media slaughter. We’re actually really shocked by the incensed articles in both teen and regular press about our affair. Either we have zero understanding of what makes the press tick, or it’s a really slow month for news.”

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“Great Balls of Fire” singer Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13-year-old cousin as soon as eliminated (so the daughter of his cousin) Myra Gale Brown in 1957, when he was 22. A yr later, at 14, Brown had already given start to their first youngster (who died when Brown was solely 17). After 13 years of marriage, the cousins divorced in 1970. Brown, then 26, accused Lewis of “every type of physical and mental abuse imaginable.”

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Comic Dane Prepare dinner started courting his now-fiancée Kelsi Taylor when she was round 17* and he was round 45. That they had met at a sport night time at his home and began up a friendship whereas Taylor was nonetheless a minor, which later grew to become a romantic relationship.

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Michael Jackson met Brooke Shields when she was 13 and he was 20. He claimed they have been courting and later referred to as Shields “one of the loves of my life,” although Shields has denied that their relationship was ever romantic.

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Brad Pitt was reportedly 27 when he first started courting 17-year-old Juliette Lewis, although that they had met on the set of Too Younger to Die? when Lewis was solely 16. The 2 dated for 3 years.

Pitt beforehand dated Christina Applegate from 1988–1989, when he was in his mid-20s and he or she was solely 17. He’d additionally reportedly dated Shalane McCall when she was round 15/16 and he was in his mid-20s.

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R&B singer Michel’le was solely 17 when she started a relationship with Dr. Dre (who was nearly six years older than her). They later obtained married and had a toddler, although they ultimately break up and Michel’le accused Dre of beating her so badly that she needed to get cosmetic surgery on her nostril to restore the harm.

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The Knack frontman Doug Fieger wrote “My Sharona” about then-teenager Sharona Alperin. In keeping with Alperin, she was “about 16 or 17” when she met the singer, who was 9 years older than her. Inside two months, he’d confessed his love for her, although she states they did not get collectively till a yr later as a result of she was courting another person on the time. Fieger and Alperin then dated for 4 years.

The track options lyrics reminiscent of “I always get it up, for the touch of the younger kind” — when requested about her response to the lyrics years later, Alperin mentioned, “I don’t know how I ever felt. I was certainly caught up in the middle of it, it wasn’t as scandalous and salacious as it would be interpreted now. Now you can’t really say those things, but then he was basically saying he got hot for younger girls — specifically me.”

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The Fifth Component director Luc Besson was 29 when he met 12-year-old Maïwenn Le Besco. The 2 allegedly started a romantic relationship when she was 15, and by 16, the 2 have been married and anticipating a toddler. Léon (starring a younger Natalie Portman as a 12-year-old with a romantic curiosity in an older man) was apparently based mostly on this relationship. The 2 break up a couple of years later.

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A number of girls have alleged that they slept with David Bowie after they have been youngsters and he was an grownup, together with Lori Mattix, who has mentioned she had intercourse with Bowie at 15 (and had a threesome with fellow “baby groupie” and 15-year-old Sable Starr that very same night time). Bowie had first propositioned her when she was 14.

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Talking of Starr — she had beforehand slept with Spirit guitarist Randy California when she was solely 12.

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And at 13, she started a sexual relationship with 23-year-old Iggy Pop, which Iggy sang about within the track “Look Away,” saying, “I slept with Sable when she was 13, her dad and mom have been too wealthy to do something.”

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Marvin Gaye met his second spouse Jan when she was solely 17 — they instantly began up a relationship, even though he was 34. There’s additionally hypothesis that the mom of his first son was not his first spouse, Anna Gordy, however truly her 15-year-old niece Denise.

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Chuck Berry was 33 years outdated when he was arrested for transporting 14-year-old Janice Escalanti for “immoral purposes” in 1959 — she alleged that he had raped her 14 occasions whereas she traveled with him over two weeks. Whereas his preliminary trial suffered from racism, inflicting a retrial (the place he was once more convicted), Berry himself admitted to transporting {the teenager} over state strains (although he mentioned he thought she was in her 20s) and of taking photographs of Escalanti and sharing lodge rooms along with her, however denied any sexual interactions occurred.

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Cher has mentioned that she and Warren Beatty dated after he nearly hit her together with his automotive when she was solely 16 and he was in his mid-20s.

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Shortly after, nonetheless 16, she met Sonny (who was a decade older than her) and moved in with him, although their relationship reportedly took some time to show romantic. By the point Cher was 18, although, they have been married and pregnant.

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And at last, singer Justin Gaston dated Miley Cyrus when she was solely 15 and he was 20. Although Justin initially denied they have been courting, Cyrus confirmed it (although stopped wanting confirming they have been “in a relationship”). The 2 broke up when Cyrus was 16, after she left to movie The Final Tune.