Sophia Michaels
Melanie Griffith was only 14 years old when she first met Don Johnson, who was seven years older. “I was skeptical because of her age but she was more woman than most of the girls I’d been going out with,” the actor told People. About a year later, Griffith moved in with Johnson in Los Angeles, and he proposed on her 18th birthday. The two actors flew to Las Vegas to get hitched in 1976 but divorced about six months later. “It just wasn’t working for us, but we couldn’t split up,” Griffith explained of her nuptials with Johnson. “We thought it might work better if we were married. It didn’t. I got married in order to end the relationship,” she confessed. As for Johnson, the actor admitted that he may have also rushed into the marriage. He even confessed that the day before the impromptu wedding, “I had been with Marjorie Wallace most of the night.” This was starting to look like a pattern for Johnson, who had been married and divorced twice before settling down with Griffith.
Both actors appeared to be done for good as they moved on and started separate families. Johnson linked up with fellow actor Patti D’Arbanville and welcomed a son together. Johnson also was romantically connected with Barbra Streisand, and the two even recorded a duet called “Till I Loved You.” For Griffith, she married actor Steven Bauer and also had a son.
