How Many Times Has Star Jones Been Married

Let’s be real: when you hear the name Star Jones, you don’t just think about her time on The View or that incredible legal career. No, your brain immediately flashes to the ring, the dress, and the drama. Specifically, the mystery of how many times this woman has actually walked down the aisle. Buckle up, because the answer is both simpler and wilder than you might expect.

The Official Count: Two Husbands, One Legendary Wedding

Here’s the quick math: Star Jones has been married two times in her life. That’s it. Two. But like a good courtroom drama, the story behind those two weddings is packed with enough twists for a season of Law & Order.

Her first marriage was to a man named Shelby Albarado in the early 2000s. It was a quiet affair, so quiet that most people forgot it happened—like that one 2003 sitcom you swore you watched but can’t name. That union lasted a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it three years before they called it quits in 2003.

But the second marriage? Oh, honey. That one threw a cattle-call of controversy that still echoes in the pop culture hallways.

The Main Event: Al Reynolds and the Ultimate “Show Wedding”

In 2004, Star married Al Reynolds, a man she met on a blind date. But “met” is a gentle word for what became the most over-the-top, sponsor-laden, media-circus wedding in daytime TV history. The ceremony was broadcast by TV Guide Channel and featured a guest list that included everyone who’d ever held a microphone—including her View co-hosts, who sat there with frozen smiles while Star clutched a seven-carat diamond.

Here’s the kicker: Star later admitted she paid for nothing. Zero dollars. Every centerpiece, every crystal flute, every napkin was donated by sponsors who got their logos plastered across the TV screen. She literally treated her wedding like a Super Bowl commercial—if the Super Bowl involved a Vera Wang gown and a groom who later claimed he didn’t know his own wife was faking it.

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And by “faking it,” I don’t mean anything spicy—I mean she faked the wedding itself. In 2008, after a short, turbulent marriage, Star revealed that their entire wedding production was not legally binding. The vows? Just for show. The marriage license? Never signed—or if it was, it was signed in the phantom ink of reality TV.

The “Spiritual” Farce and the Legal Reality

So, was the Al Reynolds wedding a “real” marriage? Legally, no. Spiritually, Star argued yes—like calling a five-day juice cleanse a “marathon.” But when the divorce came through in 2008, the courts treated it as a divorce from a marriage that never technically existed under the law. Imagine being legally divorced from someone you were never legally married to—that’s some double-negative logic that would make a philosopher weep.

Still, by the numbers, it counts as a public marriage because the world watched it happen. So we give her the wedding count of two, even if one was a very fancy, legally flopped dress rehearsal.

The Redemption Arc: Current Husband, No Sponsors Needed

Fast forward to 2018. Star finds Ricardo Lugo, a retired police officer who reportedly doesn’t own a single sponsor logo. They marry in a small, private ceremony in New York. No cameras. No TV special. No hand sanitizer sponsors. Just two people who probably learned that a ring doesn’t need to be paid for by a mattress company to mean something.

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So the final tally: Two husbands, two weddings, one that was a real marriage, one that was a reality-show fever dream. And a third marriage that only happened in the tabloid headlines when she “married” herself in a 2020 Instagram post as a joke—which, honestly, is the most fabulously unhinged move she’s ever pulled.

Why Do We Care So Much?

Because Star Jones owns her chaos. She didn’t hide that her first huge wedding was a commercial for her brand. She told us, years later, with the tone of someone who knows she got away with it. She’s the friend who shows up to brunch, spills her coffee, laughs, and then orders a second coffee—and a mimosa.

The final answer? She’s been married twice. But one of those marriages was a contractual mirage, and the other was a quiet triumph. That makes her the most relatable celebrity divorce lawyer/therapist/TV host/queen we never knew we needed. And if you ask her today? She’d probably just wink, point at her ring, and say, “Third time’s the charm… if you count the one where I married my sanity.”

Now go spill your coffee, babe. You’ve earned it.