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  2. Apr 15, 2024 · Author Salman Rushdie has been married 5 times, including his marriage in the early 2000s to chef Padma Lakshmi. Here is everything to know about Salman Rushdie's dating history.

    • How Many Times Has Salman Rushdie Been Married?
    • Who Was Salman Rushdie’s 1st Wife Clarissa Luard?
    • Who Is Salman Rushdie’s 2nd Wife Marianne Wiggins?
    • Who Is Salman Rushdie’s 3rd Wife Elizabeth West?
    • Who Is Salman Rushdie’s 4th Wife Padma Lakshmi?

    The Midnight’s Childrenauthor has been married four times, starting with his first wife Clarissa Luard in 1976. The pair divorced in 1987.

    The pair met at a concert in 1969. She began working as a publicity manager for the London publishing house Paul Elek starting in 1974 while living with the then-unpublished author. A year before the couple’s split, she went to work for literary agents AP Watt. Like Salman, Clarissa worked actively in the arts. She went on to become a literature of...

    Salman married the the American-born author in 1988, on the heels of his divorce from Clarissa. The couple were living in London in 1989 when Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a Fatwa — a decree handed down by an Islamic religious leader — demanding Salman’s assassination for his book, The Satanic Verses, which was deemed blasphemous toward the reli...

    Salman once again married a fellow author, tying the knot with Elizabeth in 1997, who wrote the In the Hills series of books about her experiences living in rural Wales. The two collaborated when she co-edited Salman’s book Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing 1947-1997. The pair welcomed a son, Milan Rushdie, in 1999. Salman and Elizabeth divorc...

    On the heels of his divorce from Elizabeth, Salman immediately tied the knot with Indian-born, American-raised model turned cookbook author Padma, who published Easy Exotic: A Model’s Low-Fat Recipes From Around the World in 1999. Padma rocketed to fame after being named the season 2 host and judge on Bravo’s Top Chef cooking competition in 2006. S...

  3. Rushdie has been married five times and has two children; his first four marriages ended in divorce. He was first married to Clarissa Luard, [ 13 ] literature officer of the Arts Council of England , [ 194 ] from 1976 to 1987.

  4. Aug 12, 2022 · After Padma Lakshmi and Salman Rushdie got married in 2004, the problems in their marriage quickly became impossible to ignore. While it was undiagnosed at the time, Lakshmi's endometriosis left her bedridden with chronic pain and made it difficult for the pair to have sex.

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  5. Sep 22, 2022 · How many times was Salman Rushdie married? Over the years, Salman Rushdie has tied the knot with four women. Salman was first married to Clarissa Luard from 1976 to 1987. After their divorce, he then tied the knot with Marianne Wiggins, who he was married to until 1993.

  6. Aug 13, 2022 · Novelist Salman Rushdie, 75, has been married and divorced four times. His love life received a wave of attention since he came out of hiding. Rushdie wrote 'The Satanic Verses,' which...

  7. May 7, 2020 · "It's strange, given that I've been married four times, but I actually don't think marriage is necessary," Rushdie told the press in 2007 (via the National Post).