Billy Bob Thornton’s two-decade relationship with Connie Angland has lasted longer than his previous five marriages put together. The “Fargo” actor was married to Melissa Lee Gatlin (1978-1980), Toni Lawrence (1986-1988), Cynda Williams (1990-1992), Pietra Thornton (1993-1997), and Angelina Jolie (2000-2003). The musician was still technically married to Jolie when he met Angland in 2002 on the set of “Bad Santa,” and they quickly became inseparable. In 2004, the couple welcomed baby Bella Thornton, and the “Goliath” star proudly showed off the three-week-old newborn when he received his star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Yet, unlike some of his other relationships, Thornton seemed gun-shy about tying the knot. In 2008, he told Maxim, “I told Connie I didn’t want to put her through that … If we get married, then the press will start calling her “Number Six.”
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Thornton and Angland decided to take their chances and wed 12 years after they started dating on October 22, 2014. US Weekly confirmed that they wed “at their home in Los Angeles during a private ceremony before family.” Just three months prior to their wedding, Thornton appeared on Oprah’s Master Class. He said, “I’m in a good relationship now and have been for 10 years, we have a beautiful daughter.” Bella appears to be the apple of her father’s eye as he added, “My little girl … she has me wrapped completely around her finger. I just do anything she says.”
