S15E7: Chapel of Love | Tommy Manville, "The Marrying Manville"

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

History, Comedy

4.5 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Lest you think that America's culture of celebrity for no reason is new, Stacie is here to assure you that isn't remotely the case. Way, way back, asbestos heir and Manhattan bon vivant Tommy Manville made himself the talk of the times by heading down the aisle over, and over, and over again. With 13 weddings and 11 divorces under his belt, "The Marrying Manville" isn't just a Trashy Divorces All-Star - he's basically a legend! Want early, ad-free episodes, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Sponsors Betterhelp.com/trashy – Get 10% off your first month when you sign up at the link! The Oak Tree Group. Mention Trashy Divorces for your free one hour financial preparedness conversation. Call 770-319-1700 or visit them on the web at theoaktreegroup.net. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Trashy Dev Vs. Season 15 Hall of Fame Edition. We got a big one for you
0:06.3	today. I'm Alicia. My name is Stacey and today we're going to talk about a guy who got married
0:12.3	13 times and was famous for getting married all the time. Went to the chapel of love. Yeah,
0:18.4	repeatedly. Goodness. Before we get into our episode today, I have this magic mirror here. I want
0:23.7	to give a few big thanks and shout outs to our newest supporters on patreon.com slash Trashy
0:29.6	Dev Vs. Thank you so much for joining us Sabrina Angie L and Katie B new super supporter as well
0:36.9	KJA. Thanks to our new supporters over there. Thanks to our existing supporters. Thanks to
0:43.4	L for coming back to listen or welcome for the first time. Yeah, lots of trips down that aisle
0:50.1	at the chapel of love. He was getting his steps in. If we're going to get there, Stacey, what have
0:56.1	we got to do? Probably out of go, go, go. Stacey, in the three and a half years that Trashy
1:11.6	Dev Vs has been going, you were bringing us a very special episode today. It's a very special
1:18.0	episode of Trashy Dev Vs. Yes. Double digits. Double digits. I think so far the highest count
1:25.0	that I can remember at least is Jaja Gabor with nine. So it is today, Stacey, you're taking us to
1:31.1	a new frontier. A new dimension. Yes. A new dimension. The marrying manville. The marrying manville.
1:39.5	Alicia, as you know, we live in an era replete with people who are famous or maybe just a little famous
1:47.8	for reasons that most of us can't quite figure out. There are reality TV stars,
1:53.6	sex tape leakers, political hangers on people involved in high profile courtroom dramas and various
2:00.8	other iterations of people who manage to scrape and climb into the public eye and by golly,
2:05.9	they're going to do whatever it takes to stay there. Well, it turns out this is in no way a new
2:12.2	phenomenon. It's true. Even before there was television, there was need for colorful personalities
2:18.9	to dot the society pages. And from about the mid-1930s until his final 13th marriage in 1960,
2:27.6	a bombastic asbestos air became something of a pop culture phenomenon based solely on being
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