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Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford

Ah, the supermodel and Hollywood heartthrob: a tale as old as time. Richard and Cindy began dating in 1987 (she was just 21 at the time) and were married in 1991. The difference in age was a pretty big deal at the time, but people were mostly just excited to see two overwhelmingly attractive celebrities fall in love with each other (another tale as old as time). They split in 1995, and Cindy has since blamed the failure of their marriage on the 17-year age gap: "I think I was more willing at 22 to be, like, 'Okay, I'll follow,'" she said in 2013. "But then you start going, 'Well, I don't want to just follow — I want to lead sometimes and I want to walk side by side sometimes.'"

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