Wtf! JLL married his 13 year old Cousin

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BBC article

why are all these ‘celebs’ offering condolences to a pedophile?

Old news. There was even a movie made about it and I saw that movie 32 years ago.

And Pricilla was 14 when Elvis married her, child brides must have been en vogue then. Sickening

Because they can separate the art from the artist. Most people are wankers. People with money and power are even bigger wankers.

I'm not condoning or agreeing with it. Unfortunately, that's the way it is.

It was common knowledge at the time. My mum says it put her right off him.

Also as far as I recollect from the movie she was his 'Second cousin, twice removed'.

That's filthy. I don't know why you'd want to marry a 13 year old... Well it doesn't bear thinking about. Nasty.
Cousin? Double points of nasty.

Just grim - there was a clip of them on the news and she was obviously a young teen.. Not that it would have been ok if she appeared more sophisticated but she really didn’t.

@ninetieseyebrows Not true he met her when she was 14. But they didn’t marry till she was 18 or 19. He met her in her parents home when he was serving in Germany.

Not true.
She met Elvis aged 14. Moved in with him at 17 and married at 22.

No she wasn’t!

Bill Wyman met Mandy Symth when she was 13.

It had a detrimental effect on JLL's career at least.

Priscilla was 20 when Elvis married her

I stand corrected in that case - the report I read today must have been incorrect. Still so young though

Who is JLL?

Jerry Lee Lewis

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Jerry Lee Lewis, he sings "great ball of fire".

But they began dating when she was 14.

Meant to continue-

In 1945 my Mum was 13. In the time leading up to the D Day landings her Dad got chummy with 3 American GI's. They came for dinner a few times.

One of them was from Tennessee, about 20. After a couple of visits he told Grandad that he was really taken with my mum and would "sure like to marry her".

When GD (aghast) spluttered that she was only 13 the GI said that's the age they get married back home..... I presume he was from the sticks.

Bit nasty isn't it? Legal in some states though. (As horrific as it is!)

Didn't R Kelly marry Aaliyah when she was 15 and he was nearly 30?! And that wasn't the dark ages, that was the mid 1990s!

Yeah it’s weird and wrong. Poor girl. You have to wonder what her parents were all about. He (JLL) lied initially that she was older as well, which dashes the whole ‘oh it was of THE TIME’ school of thought. Clearly he knew it was inappropriate, otherwise why lie?

But quite often people rave and cry over people who I just don’t understand. Michael Jackson… people who I thought were decent bawled over the whole Kobe Bryant thing - a man who was accused of rape and, when his accuser couldn’t/wouldn’t testify and the case was dropped, said he ‘did have sex with her, and while he thought it was consensual, obviously she viewed it differently.’

Any small measure of talent seems to give people (men) carte blanche to do any awful thing they want to do.

Have they changed the legal age for marriage now?

There are a number of states where there is no legal minimum age for marriage, as long as there is parental consent.

I don't think JLL is as unusual as we'd think.

There’s an interview with JLL and his child bride here… it’s so creepy as is so obviously so young.

I think it’s disgusting people aren’t calling him out for being a paedophile. A 22 year old man with a 13 year old child is a paedophile.

She gave birth to their first child at 14 and later said the marriage was as abusive as it could have possibly have been.

Sadly I think this is true.

My family come from Georgia and when I last visited in 1991 (I was 10) I remember my 15 year old cousin being excited about getting married to someone who was 35. Everyone just acted like it was normal.

Awful.