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18 Celebrity Couples With Huge Age Differences

True love: Sometimes it doesn't make a ton of sense. In the celebrity world, it sometimes makes no sense at all. There are plenty of unusual pairs in Hollywood, but perhaps the couples that people are most suspicious of are the celebs who have a major age difference. It might not make sense on paper, but these Hollywood couples got together despite the years separating them. Click through to read about celebrity couples who had to deal with their crazy age difference — and whether or not they were able to stick it out.

by Kaitlin Reilly

Hayden Panettiere

The Nashville star raised eyebrows when she began dating her Heroes co-star in 2007.

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Milo Ventimiglia

Panettiere was just 18 years old when she started dating Ventimiglia. His age? 30.

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Harrison Ford

The Indiana Jones star is married to a woman 23 years his junior.

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Calista Flockhart

Flockhart and Ford have been together since 2002 and wed in 2010. Ford is 72 and his Ally McBeal star wife is 50.

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Doug Hutchison

The Lost star really upped the ick factor when he wed his child bride.

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Courtney Stodden

When aspiring-something Stodden and Hutchison tied the knot, she was 16 and he was 50. They have since broken up, gotten back together, and are engaged to be married yet again. Can’t keep a good publicity stunt — err, true love — down.

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Bradley Cooper

The 39-year-old American Hustle star has a model girlfriend almost half his age.

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Suki Waterhouse

Model Waterhouse is only 22-years-old, making her 17 years Cooper’s junior.

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Mary Kate Olsen

The former Full House star is engaged to her older French boyfriend.

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Olivier Sarkozy

The half-brother of French Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy (second from the left) is 44, making him 17 years older than the Olsen twin.

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Patrick Stewart

The Star Trek: The Next Generation actor and his fiancee have a three-decade age gap.

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Sunny Ozell

The 73-year-old actor’s jazz singer fiancee is 37 years his junior.

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Hugh Hefner

No one has accused the Playboy mogul of dating appropriately-aged women.

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Crystal Harris

There’s a 60 year age difference between Hef and his Playmate wife, but Harris insists that she hardly notices it. Ooookay.

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Ashton Kutcher

He may be with the younger Mila Kunis now, but his ex-wife was 15 years his senior.

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Demi Moore

Kutcher was 27 when he married a 42-year-old Moore. To be fair, Moore still looks like she’s 25…

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Catherine Zeta-Jones

The Chicago actress is 25 years younger than her hubby — exactly 25 years younger.

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Michael Douglas

Douglas, 69, and Zeta-Jones, 45, happen to share a birthday.

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Nina Dobrev

Fans might be surprised to learn that the Vampire Diaries star and her now-ex are just about a decade apart in age.

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Ian Somerhalder

The former couple, who co-star on the CW’s supernatural series, may be eternally youthful vampires on the show, but in reality are 10 years apart. Dobrev is 25 and Somerhalder is 35.

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Marisa Tomei

The 48-year-old My Cousin Vinny star used to have a younger beau.

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Logan Marshall-Green

Did you have any idea that Trey Atwood of The O.C. dated Tomei? Apparently the couple was on and off for years, but broke up sometime in 2013 for good. Tomei is 12 years Marshall-Green’s senior.

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Demi Lovato

The 22-year-old “Heart Attack” singer appears happy with her decade-older boyfriend.

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Wilmer Valderrama

The former That ’70s Show actor is 34 and just about 13 years older than his girlfriend.

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Amber Tamblyn

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants star is happy with her Arrested Development actor hubby, despite their 19-year age difference.

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David Cross

The guy behind Tobias Funke is 50 and his wife is 31. Still, they seem super in love, even fighting for women’s reproductive rights together via YouTube parody video.

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Jason Statham

There’s a 20-year difference between the Crank star and his model girlfriend.

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Rosie Huntington-Whitely

The model, who appeared in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, is 20 years younger than the 47-year-old Statham.

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson

The 26-year-old Kick-Ass star is significantly younger than his director wife, but they make it work.

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Sam Taylor-Johnson

Aaron’s Nowhere Boy director wife is nearly twice his age at 47, but that didn’t stop the pair from getting married and having two kids together.

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Johnny Depp

The Pirates of the Caribbean star popped the question to his much-younger girlfriend last year.

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Amber Heard

The 50-year-old actor got engaged to his 27-year-old Rum Diary co-star at the end of 2013.

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Mariah Carey

The notorious diva is 10 years older than her husband.

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Nick Cannon

Carey, 44, and her husband Cannon, 34, recently started divorce proceedings and are currently negotiating custody of their twins.

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Madonna

The “Material Girl” singer broke up with her much-younger boyfriend in 2013.

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Brahim Zaibat

Madonna met dancer Zaibat when he performed at her daughter Lourdes’ birthday party. At the time, Madonna 52 and Zaibat was 24. Despite the age difference, the couple dated for three years.

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