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(February 1950 - 28 March 1952) ( divorced)
26 September 49 the press claims she married James E. Durant, Flamingo hotel casino manager, in Las Vegas, Nevada. He`s 43; she`s 33. The ceremony is performed by Justice of the Peace A. G. Blad. The press claims this to be her sixth marriage and lists her first five husbands as Mischa Bakaleinikoff, Bill Marshall, Seymour Chotiner, and Victor Makzoume, and Johnny Stompanato.
February 50 marries Durant in Coolidge, Arizona
15 July 50 files for divorce from Durant in Hollywood after four months of marriage. She charges cruelty.
31 August 51 is sued in Los Angeles by Charles A. Hubbard, 31, heir to a Bahamas Islands plantation fortune, who claims she broke off her engagement to him and failed to return his $17,000 diamond ring. Hubbard claims he gave her the six-carat ring on Christmas Day, 1949, with the understanding they soon would wed. But she terminated the romance a month later. Court records show that she is still married to James E. Durant and that they were married in 1950 in Coolidge, Arizona.
? she and Durant reconcile
20 December 51 she and Durant part again
28 March 52 files from divorce from Durant in Los Angeles
4 June 52 asks for $750 monthly alimony from Durant, now a Phoenix, Arizona, restaurateur, along with an order restraining him from molesting her. She claims Durant tried to throw her from the window of an 11th-floor apartment last May. Durant demurs, claiming he already divorced her in Phoenix, with her consent. Judge Lewis Drucker takes the case under advisement. The press heralds they can`t decide if they are married or not.