Jerry Lee Lewis was a bigamist – Fact Check

His second - to Jane Mitchum - was bigamous and ended with her throwing claw hammers through his windscreen. Now a news-agency reporter, Ray Berry, raised questions about Jerry's third wife, Myra Gale Brown.

Lewis was also a bigamist: his divorce from his second wife, Jane Mitchum, had not been finalised when he married Brown, just as his divorce from his first wife, Dorothy Barton, had not been finalised when he married Mitchum.

The press discovered that the ... and his career under threat. Jerry confessed his whole hillbilly history: “I was a bigamist at 16 …...

Lewis was married seven times, including bigamous marriages and a marriage with his underaged cousin. He had six children during his marriages. When Jerry Lee Lewis was 16, he married Dorothy Barton, the daughter of a preacher.

Lewis has been married a total of seven times. He tied the knot with his current wife, Judith Lewis, in 2012

The pair were married when Jerry Lee Lewis was only 16 years old. As one would expect with two teenagers in a relationship, it didn’t last long. The pair were married for 20 months, from February 1952 to October 1953.

But they were about to get much worse when it was quickly discovered that Lewis, 22 at the time of the wedding, had been lying. Myra wasn’t 15. She was 13, and, therefore, absolutely not a "grown woman". What’s more, she was the singer’s first cousin once removed. And if that wasn’t enough, it was also revealed that he may have been bigamously married to her, since he hadn’t yet become divorced from his second wife, whom he’d married at 17, having wed his first wife at 14.

The tour collapsed after three ... divorce from his previous marriage was not yet final – the second time, even at 22 years old, he had been in a bigamous marriage....

Lewis was 22 and Williams was 13, and the press came down hard on him when it was revealed that she was also his second cousin and that Lewis was still married to his second wife, Jane Mitchum, when they wed. In short, whiffs of incest and bigamy. Jerry Lee Lewis and Myra arriving in England.