Given Jude Law’s track record with women in the 16 years since he split from his first wife, you’d be forgiven for thinking re-marriage was the last thing on his mind.
For the handsome film star has dated a veritable red carpet line-up of beauties.
There was the scandal-drenched period in which he dated Sienna Miller on and off and was caught cheating with his children’s nanny Daisy Wright.
He also took Luther actress Ruth Wilson to the Box nightclub and was linked to young model Lily Cole. Embarrassing footage then emerged of Jude chatting up a Hungarian Playboy model in a bar in Budapest, apparently heavily inebriated.
Jude law and Dr Phillipa Coan get married in London. The bride and groom were spotted as they arrived at the Alfred Dunhill members club after getting married at Marylebone Registry office, where they enjoyed a wedding reception with close family and friends.
When he wasn’t partying, he found time to impregnate two young women — an aspiring model and an aspiring singer — in 2008 and 2014.
And it later transpired that over 2014 and 2015 he dated a glamorous French mother-of-two whom he had seduced after bumping into her on the street and insisting on exchanging phone numbers.
It’s fair to say that none of those relationships were long-lasting, yet earlier this week he made the ultimate commitment by marrying Dr Phillipa Coan, his girlfriend of four years, a blonde psychologist who, at 32, is 14 years his junior.
Jude certainly wasn’t shy about his ‘secret’ nuptials. There was a hint of the peacock about him as he emerged from his marriage ceremony at London’s Marylebone Town Hall on Wednesday wearing an eye-catching £840 Boglioli corduroy suit, striking Burberry blue-tinted sunglasses, and conspicious £200 teal suede lace-ups and a battered vintage fedora hat. His new wife looked stunning in a ruffled cream mini dress and towered above her husband in nude heels.
The academic and the actor had exclusively hired the venues private dining area and were heard getting louder and louder as the evening went on. The pair were whisked away in a chauffeur car after seven hours of celebrations, with friends outside waving them off
The couple’s body language, too, didn’t always appear to fit the traditional expectation of newlyweds — at one point the bride and guests trailed behind the star as he hopped, bearing a plastic bag, into a chauffeur-driven Range Rover.
But the pair are said to be potty about each other, and there is an expectation that he plans to add to his brood of five children by starting a family with Phillipa.
What a turnaround for a man whose very name was once synonymous with a hedonistic (and some would say rather unsavoury) lifestyle.
When married to first wife Sadie Frost, he was part of the notorious ‘Primrose Hill Set’ — a group of celebrities who lived in the North London neighbourhood in the Nineties and early Noughties, who had a reputation for drinking, drug taking . . . and bed hopping.
Jude Law and Sadie Frost (pictured in 1998) met on the film set of Shopping, before marrying in 1997. The couple had three children before they divorced in 2003
Jude was relatively young, 25, in 1997 when he married actress Sadie, who is seven years his senior. Already a father to Rafferty then, he was out of the relationship by 2003, by which time they had three children — Rafferty, Iris, and Rudy.
Given that he met Sadie aged just 19, an age when men are usually a long way from settling down, it’s no wonder he wanted to embrace single life after they split up.
He said he had changed a lot by the time he turned 30, when they finally parted ways. Certainly, former fiancee Sienna Miller confirmed that Jude Law wasn’t ‘ready for marriage’ just before they finally split.
He cheated on actress Sienna with his children’s nanny Daisy Wright in 2005 when she was away filming. He issued a grovelling public apology saying he was ‘sorry and ashamed’ for hurting her.
In a thinly veiled reference to Law’s cheating, Sienna once said of the louche celebrity lifestyle: ‘I don’t think it’s normal, I don’t think it’s admirable, I don’t think it’s desirable.’
Jude Law dated actress Sienna Miller (left) for a year before becoming engaged in 2004. The couple split after Law was forced to apologise for having an affair with his children's nanny Daisy Wright (right)
His bachelor years produced two more children. Sophia who was born in 2009 to American Samantha Burke. She had a week-long fling with him in New York when he was filming Sherlock Holmes — they met on the street outside a nightclub.
She was working as a waitress in Hooters, New Jersey, a U.S. chain restaurant staffed by pretty waitresses in revealing clothing.
After a paternity test, he agreed to support their child, and is said to pay £4,600 a month in support plus school and medical fees.
Cat Cavelli, the mother of daughter Ada who was born in 2015, met him in a bar in Soho in 2014 and said they had a seven-month romance. She now lives in Hampstead and he is a part of their lives; she says he is good at changing nappies and that her daughter has spent time with his children by Sadie Frost.
So, just who is the woman who appears to have
