The Most Iconic Celebrity Couples From the ’80s

Stallone and Nielsen started off as a scandal. She was 17 years younger than him, and Stallone had left his wife Sasha Czack for her. They married in December 1985, having known each other after only a few months. In 2017 Nielsen told Oprah, “I remember thinking, ‘This is too early. This is not right.’” And it wasn’t. They divorced two years later.

Carrie Fisher and Paul Simon married in 1983, having met years earlier while Fisher was filming Star Wars. As it turned out, though, they simply couldn’t make it work, and divorced the following year. However, they did carry on a romance for a few years after that, such was their passion for each other. Simon’s song “Hearts and Bones” is actually about his love for Fisher.

Both Clooney and Preston are married now to other famous people, so the relationship between them faded into history ever since Preston married John Travolta in 1991. However, they did in fact date from 1987 to 1989 and even lived together for a time. The pair of them adopted a pot-bellied pig, Max, who Clooney ended up keeping. And pre-Amal, Clooney would joke that Max was his longest relationship.

Bruce Springsteen and Julianne Phillips met in 1984, and got hitched only months later. Alas… marry in haste, repent at leisure. Springsteen then had an affair with musician Patti Scialfa and in 1988 he and Phillips divorced. He regretted it, though, writing in his 2016 memoir Born to Run, “I placed [Phillips] in a terribly difficult position for a young girl and I failed her as a husband and partner.”