The Truth About Bill Murray's Ex-Wives

Bill Murray's first wife, Margaret "Mickey" Kelly, got hitched to theSaturday Night Livealum in one of the most Bill Murray ways imaginable. According toThe New York Times, Murray tookKelly on a ride through California's San Fernando Valley in search of a Mexican restaurant, but they wound up at a chapel in Las Vegas at 4:30

Bill Murray's first wife, Margaret "Mickey" Kelly, got hitched to the Saturday Night Live alum in one of the most Bill Murray ways imaginable. According to The New York Times, Murray took Kelly on a ride through California's San Fernando Valley in search of a Mexican restaurant, but they wound up at a chapel in Las Vegas at 4:30 in the morning instead. It was Super Bowl Sunday 1981 — a day Murray supposedly views as a national holiday. 

Kelly said the elopement was Murray's brainchild. "I really was gonna pick a fight, and then I thought, 'Let's just do it.' He had this thing planned out," she told Rolling Stone. "I thought, 'Aaaaah, go with it.'"(No word on if they ever got tacos.)

Kelly was no stranger to the show biz world when she and Murray said, "I do." She studied theatre arts at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College before working as a page at NBC. According to the Times, she was a talent coordinator on The Tonight Show and The Dick Cavett Show, and together with Murray, she became a mom to sons Luke and Homer. During their marriage, Kelly reportedly opened a cabin-inspired home goods store, and she later forged a career in residential real estate. 

They divorced in 1994, and he rebounded with a woman he'd met years earlier on a movie set...

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