This date always brings back the pain of how my marriage crumbled so quickly. You may have heard about it. If not, below are the news reports.
Sadly, when it comes to heartbreak, what happens in Vegas, doesn't stay in Vegas!
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Spears Weds Outlook Editor
Bard Wire Report
April 1, 2004
Las Vegas (Bard Wire) – Oops, she did it again! For the second time in two months Britney Spears has married.
A publicist for the pop-princess announced today that Spears tied the knot after a recent performance at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.
The small ceremony took place in the wedding chapel of the Excalibur Hotel and Casino just after 4 a.m. on Sunday, Mar. 7.
According to her publicist, Spears, age 22, married Bud Koenemund, age 35. Koenemund is reportedly the Editor-in-Chief of Outlook Student Press, the newspaper of SUNY/Rockland Community College, a small school 25 miles north of New York City.
“I don’t know what it is about that town [Las Vegas], it just makes me want to get married…I think it’s the overwhelming class surrounding everything there,” the new Mrs. Spears-Alexander-Koenemund wrote in a statement released to the press.
Koenemund, who was in Las Vegas for a journalism convention, held a brief press conference today.
“Britney and I are insanely happy together, and we plan to remain that way for the rest of our lives,” he said.
Several reporters asked Koenemund what attracted him to Spears.
“Well, there is her obvious physical beauty, but Britney also possesses a surprising, almost encyclopedic, knowledge of the works of William Shakespeare. What could be sexier than that?” he said.
When reached for comment, Spears answered a similar question.
“He made me laugh. He comes on very serious, but once you get to know him deep-down, he’s very funny,” she said.
Friends of Koenemund doubted a wedding day would ever arrive for the editor.
“Bud may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on him, because he had railed so long against marriage,” Benedick Padua joked. “But doth not the appetite alter?” he added.
On Jan. 3 of this year, Spears married hometown friend, Jason Allan Alexander, but the union was annulled only 55 hours later. This is the first marriage for Koenemund.
In a related story, Las Vegas Police and members of MGM Grand security are investigating how a student journalist from New York gained back-stage access at the hotel.
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Spears Dumps Editor, Ends Second Marriage
Bard Wire Report
April 1, 2004
Las Vegas (Bard Wire) – Britney Spears’ second attempt at marriage has ended. Her union with New York newspaper editor Bud Koenemund lasted only three and a half weeks.
The couple officially separated earlier today, according to their respective spokespeople.
Though brief by conventional standards, this marriage outlasted her first by more than three weeks.
Reportedly, the trouble in paradise was due to jealousy, and the long-distance nature of the relationship.
According to a source close to Spears, Britney couldn’t handle the fact that Bud was constantly surrounded by young, scantily-clad, college girls.
A spokesperson for Koenemund told a different story however.
Benedick Padua presented copies of public documents pertaining to Spears’ brief marriage to Jason Allan Alexander showing that Spears is, in fact, still legally married to Alexander.
The documents, available at thesmokinggun.com, plainly show that a marriage license was issued to Britney Jean Spears and Jason Allen Alexander. However, only 55 hours after the wedding, an annulment request was granted to Britney Jean Spears and Jason Allan Alexander.
“The misspelling probably wouldn’t be enough to overturn the annulment,” said George Dewey, a partner in the Las Vegas law firm Dewey, Skrewem, & Howe.
Apparently, it was enough for Koenemund.
“Although Bud is deeply saddened by the ending of his marriage, he has no interest in being ‘the other man’,” Padua said, “he doesn’t want to be used only for his body, like some brainless piece of meat.”
Legal experts on both sides commented that the divorce proceedings in a case like this could get very nasty.
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