Celebrity Couples With Significant Age Gaps

Almost everyone who has ever lived has either found true love or spent their lives searching for it. The person we decide to spend our lives with is one of the most important decisions we will ever make. When we create a romantic relationship with someone and solidify that relationship with a life-long partnership or marriage, we will be sharing countless meals and spending a lot of nights with this person. But here’s the question: How important is it that this person be close to us in age?

When Michael Douglas married Catherine Zeta-Jones, it was a union between two of the biggest stars in the world. Combined, the two have been in more than 100 movies and both of them have won Academy Awards.

This A-list celebrity couple met when they were filming “Green Lantern” in 2010. At the time, Reynolds was 33 years old and Lively was only 22. In 2011, they started dating, and they wed in September 2012. Now, this adorable couple has three daughters together and they’re very family-oriented.

When it comes to Hollywood, it’s not uncommon to see relationships where an older woman celebrity falls in love with a much younger man. Who can ever forget the epic love story of Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher?

It’s hard to believe that Alec Baldwin is 63 years old, but he is indeed. That makes him 26 years older than his wife Hilaria, who is a 37-year-old yoga instructor and podcaster. They recently had their eighth wedding anniversary, and Alec shared a loving tribute to his wife, where he called her a “gift.”

It’s not just older men in Hollywood who like younger women. It seems that some older women like younger women, too. The queen of daytime television, Ellen DeGeneres, started dating her wife Portia de Rossi in 2004. From there, the relationship blossomed quickly and the two started living together.

The actor Dennis Quaid is no stranger to marriage. In fact, he has had four wives, so it could be argued that he’s an expert at marriage. That’s a good thing, because his current wife, Laura Savoie, is only 28 years old.

Leonardo DiCaprio has everything he ever dreamed of, it seems. On top of being rich and famous, he can have his pick of any woman in the world, and there is no shortage of beautiful young models to date him. Leo’s most recent love interest is Camila Morrone, a 23-year-old woman he has dated since 2017.

With a 41-year age gap between them, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler and his 33-year-old girlfriend Aimee Preston are one of the most famous celebrity couples with a huge age gap. In fact, Aimee is younger than two of Tyler’s own daughters.

Although Stella was the first on-screen love of Rocky, it was a young woman named Jennifer who stole the megastar’s heart in real life. Stallone and Flavin met in 1988 when Jennifer was only 19 years old. At the time, Stallone was 42 years old.

Since 2016, actor Sean Penn and his girlfriend Leila George have been spotted casually together. However, they finally went public when they walked the red carpet in 2020 together. It seems they are a couple who enjoys their privacy.

Comedian and actor Eddie Murphy met Paige Butcher in 2006 when the two were working on the film Big Momma’s House 2. They connected instantly, but they didn’t actually become romantic until six years later in 2012. Reportedly, Eddie pursued Paige because he loved not just her beauty, but also her personality, which people say is very down-to-earth.

You don’t typically think of Jay-Z and his wife Beyoncé as being in a May-December relationship, but it’s probably because they’ve been together for so long. Also, there is only 12 years difference between them, which is nothing compared to some of the other couples we’ve mentioned.

When legendary actor Bruce Willis witnessed his first wife, Demi Moore, marrying a much younger man, maybe he got the idea to do the same thing. Enter Emma Heming, who is 24 years younger than Mr. Willis. Also, it bears mentioning that she shares a striking resemblance to Bruce’s ex-wife. Maybe Bruce just has a type.

Long before George Clooney won the hearts of women all over the world, another movie star was stealing hearts. Richard Gere was long considered to be one of the most handsome men in Hollywood, but his heart was apparently won by a young Spanish socialite named Alejandra Silva, who is 34 years his junior.

When Matthew McConaughey met a young model named Camila Alves in 2006 at a Los Angeles nightclub, he was 36 years old and Camila was 23. It took him a while to win her heart, but the two finally started going on dates and fell in love. McConaughey proposed to Camila in 2011 on Christmas Day.

Although 11 years isn’t as big a difference in age as many of the couples on our list, there is a good decade between Nick Jonas and his wife, Priyanka Chopra. When you’re as young as these two are, 11 years is significantly different.

The front man for the enormously successful band Maroon 5, Adam Levine, met his wife Behati Prinsloo in 2012 after he ended the relationship he was in with one of Behati’s close friends.

It took a lot of speculation and rumors for Zach Braff and his girlfriend Florence Pugh to go public with their relationship in 2019. If you’ve seen movies like Little Women and Fighting with My Family, you’re probably familiar with Florence. As for Zach, he has starred in the TV show Scrubs and Garden State.

You know it’s a beautiful world when Hans Solo and Ally McBeal find their own happily ever after together. It’s impossible to believe that the megastar Ford is 78 years old. They started dating in 2002 after meeting at the Golden Globe Awards. Ford proposed to Flockhart, now 56, in 2009 on Valentine’s Day.

In his starring role as Uncle Jesse on the hit TV sitcom Full House, John Stamos played another huge role in American pop culture. For many young ladies, Mr. Stamos was their first celebrity crush. How could anyone not love Uncle Jesse, right?

He was America’s favorite heartthrob for many years and was considered to be one of the most eligible bachelors in the entire world. In fact, he was titled the “World’s Sexiest Man Alive” not once, but twice.

Jason Statham is a celebrity who looks much younger than he actually is. One thing that makes it difficult to guess his age is that he’s been bald for a long time. However, he’s actually 53 years old. His fiancé, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, is 20 years younger than he is.

Dick Van Dyke was 86 years old when he married Arlene Silver, who was 40 at the time. Arlene is a successful make-up artist and producer within Hollywood.

Actress Kate Beckinsale looks young for a 47-year-old woman, and she can probably have her pick of men of all ages. Maybe that’s why she fell in love with Goody Grace, a man who is only 23 years old.

The actor Nicholas Cage seems to go through the ladies very quickly, and like many Hollywood leading men, he seems to enjoy associating with younger women. In the case of his current wife, Riko Shibata, the younger woman is a whopping 30 years younger.

Iconic actress Viola Davis has been lighting up both the small and large screens for years and is well-known for her hit TV show, How to Get Away With Murder. However, she’s known her husband for even longer than that since they’ve been married since 2003.

“The Hoff” is an interesting character with a long career in Hollywood, but one of the more interesting things he has done is marry a woman with the same name and spelling as that of his daughter.

Another couple of ladies who are decades apart, Sarah Paulson is 34 years younger than her partner, Holland Taylor, who is 78 years old. Fans know Paulson as the star of shows like American Gothic, Jack and Jill, What Women Want, and more.

Music mogul David Foster isn’t a movie star or rock star, so his face and name aren’t familiar to everyone, but he’s actually a power player in the music industry and has earned a whopping 16 Grammy Awards. Maybe that’s why the young American Idol favorite Katherine McPhee fell for him. Of course, they’re also madly in love, so there’s that.

The world’s favorite game show host, Alex Trebek, left us last year, but when he was alive, he was in love with his long-time wife of 30 years, Jean Currivan. In addition to being his wife for so long, the couple also had a 24 year age difference.

It seems like one day the world found out that Michael Sheen was dating Anna Lundberg, a woman 25 years his junior, and the next day, the two were expecting a baby together. While lots of dads become parents at 50, it’s still something to notice.

The popular superhero actor Hugh Jackman said that the attraction was immediate when he met his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness. The couple met on the set of an Australian TV show in 1995, and in spite of the 13-year age gap, both agree that it was definitely love at first sight.

Widely considered to be one of the most desirable women to ever live, Pamela Anderson has had a tumultuous love life. In 2020, she married Jon Peters, but they actually met for the first time 30 years earlier, although they didn’t get married at that time.

Actor Mel Gibson’s girlfriend is only 30 years old, making her a whopping 34 years younger than her long-time boyfriend, 65-year-old Mel Gibson. Rosalind and Mel have a baby girl together. He has eight other children with different women.

When he was the grand old age of 62 years old, actor Dolph Lundgren proposed to his fellow Scandinavian, Emma Krokdal. Emma is from Norway, and she is only 24 years old. Lundgren found fame thanks to his role in the “Rocky” movies, and Emma is a personal trainer by trade.

This couple had a love story that was one for the ages. Rene started as Celine’s manager when she was only 12 years old, but there’s no indication that anything creepy was going on at that time. However, she was deeply in love with him from the time she was very young.

With countless controversies and scandals in this relationship, the 23-year age gap is perhaps the least concerning. Heard considers her sexuality to be fluid and has had relationships with both men and women. Depp started dating Heard in 2012 and the pair got married in February 2015.

They were a couple so famous that they were known by one name: Brangelina. For 12 remarkable years, the couple lived and loved together, all while raising six children. The couple famously met on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith when Pitt was still married to his first wife, Jennifer Aniston.

This sweet couple is different from many of the couples on this list because Gabrielle is actually 10 years older than her NBA star husband Dwayne Wade. The couple started dating in 2008 and married in August 2014, in Miami. Gabrielle is a hugely successful actress who has starred in shows like Being Mary Jane.

Of course the late Hugh Hefner had to make his way onto this list. Hefner married his third wife, 26 year old Crystal Harris when he was 86 years old. Crystal is known for being a model and TV personality. She appeared in E!’s reality TV show, The Girl Next Door and was recognized as the Playboy Playmate of the Month in December of 2009.

Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger announced their engagement in January 2019 and tied the knot later that year in an intimate California wedding.

Scott Disick, is a media personality and socialite, most famous for starring in Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and sharing three children with Kourtney Kardashian. Disick started turning heads when he began dating Amelia Gray Hamlin- model and daughter to Lisa Rinna, and Harry Hamlin. This couple had an 18 year age gap. 

Matt Bomer was 34 years old when he wed his long-term partner, Simon Halls, then 47. The two met in 2008 for the first time when Matt hired Simon to be his publicist. Both talked about experiencing an “instant connection” and it didn’t take long before the two started dating. 

Coincidentally, professional gymnast, Emilie Livingston met Jeff Goldblum in a California gym. Goldblum stated “I saw her from across a crowded room, and I marched up to her, entranced, and began some kind of conversation.” 

Alicia Vikander, 31, and husband Michael Fassbender, 43, started dating back in 2014 after meeting on the set of The Light Between Oceans. While promoting the movie in 2016, they made it clear that their personal life didn’t affect their performances.

Mary-Kate Olsen French banker Olivier Sarkozy, 50, and Mary-Kate Olsen, 33, got engaged in 2014 after reportedly dating for two years. The couple married in a small ceremony in 2015, where it was reported party decor included “bowls and bowls filled with cigarettes.” 

Desperate Housewives actress Felicity Huffman and Shameless actor William H. Macy dated on-and-off for 15 years before finally marrying in 1997. At the time of the nuptials Macy was 47, and Huffman was 35.

After meeting at a swimming competition in Monte Carlo in 2000, Princess Charlene of Monaco, then 22, spotted Prince Albert II of Monaco, then 42. The couple hit it off and dated for ten years before finally getting engaged in 2011.

Megan Fox, 33, and Brian Austin Green, 46, met on the set of Hope & Faith in 2004 when she was only 18. They got engaged in 2006, but split three years later. However, the couple later rekindled the flame and got married in 2010. The couple has three sons together, and Fox is also a stepmom to Green’s son from a previous relationship. 

Reed, 31, and Somerhalder, 41, began their relationship in 2014, much to the excitement of vampire fans. Reed had starred in the Twilight movie series, while Somerhalder played the main hunk on Vampire Diaries. 

The One Tree Hill actress and The Walking Dead star began dating in 2009. The two were set up by Morgan’s Supernatural co-star, Jensen Ackles. It was clearly a match made in heaven!

British director Guy Ritchie, 51, began dating actress and model Jacqui Ainsley, 38 in 2010.  According to the model, she looked at Ritchie on their first date and knew at once that he would be the father of her kids. 

Anna Paquin is a Canadian-born New Zealand actress and Stephen Moyer, an English film and television actor and director who is best known as vampire Bill Compton in the HBO series True Blood met on the set of True Blood back in 2008.

Regardless of the heartbreaks from past relationships, Joel never gave up on love, and this time around, he found his happily ever after. Joel- then 66, married his fourth wife, Alexis Roderick- then 29, in August of 2015 after dating for 6 years.

Legendary rockstar Rod Stewart married model Penny Lancaster in 2007. Lancaster, who is Stewart’s third wife, gave birth to two sons: Alastair Stewart in 2005 and Aiden Stewart in 2011.

Hugh Hefner has made a reputation for himself for spending his time with young beautiful women. The playboy mansion is used for this specific purpose. Holly Madison was one of his many young girlfriends and they even got married for 2 years. They share 2 kids together. He was 75 years old while she was only 21 when they first got together.

The 55 year old actor married a French model, Tina Kunakey in 2019. There is a 30 year age gap between the two and Tina was only 21 years old when they exchanged vows.