Hollywood titan Will Smith’s relationship with his wife Jada Pinkett Smith has been strained, to say the least.
The ups and downs of their 25-year marriage have always fascinated the public, and much has come to light in recent years, with report after report showing the world more of the complicated and often difficult partnership in which the two men are found. than they might wish.
Their relationship reached its peak last year, when Will Smith punched comedian Chris Rock after he made a joke about Jada’s short hair at the 94th Academy Awards, coupled with the now-infamous line: “Keep it my wife’s name out of your fucking shit.” mouth!’
Smith received a lot of backlash for the slap, and Jada admitted she was surprised to hear him call her his wife.
“We haven’t called each other husband and wife for a long time,” she told Hoda Kotb in an interview.
Will’s relationships were thrust back into the spotlight, after someone claiming to be his former assistant claimed he caught Smith and his longtime friend and fellow Fresh Prince actor Duane Martin making out. love in a dressing room.
Brother Bilaal, who describes himself as the actor’s former personal assistant, said in a now-viral interview: “I opened the door to Duane’s dressing room and that’s when I see Duane having anal sex with Will.
“There was a couch and Will was bent over on the couch and Duane was getting up to kill him, murder him – that was murder in there.”
Will Smith has denied the rumors, calling them “unequivocally false,” with a source claiming the King Richard actor is considering taking legal action against Brother Bilaal.
MailOnline has collected all of Will Smith’s PRs before his marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith.
Sandra Denton, late 1980s
Sandra Denton (pictured), also known as Pepa from the 90s hip-hop duo Salt-N-Pepa, dated Will Smith, although little is known about their relationship.
Bizarrely, it was revealed that Will Smith and Sandra Denton, otherwise known as Pepa in the hip-hop duo Salt-N-Pepa, went on a date in the late 1980s.
The revelation came in an episode of his music podcast Class of ’88. Denton gave Will a questionable look after reminding him that the couple had a date.
He quickly declared: “We have the right to talk about it!” We have matured! We don’t do anything.
Sheree Zampino, 1991-1995
Sheree Zampino (pictured) was Will Smith’s first wife. They had a child, Trey, together, who is now a DJ
Sheree Zampino was Will Smith’s first wife. The couple was together from 1991 to 1995, married in 1992 and had a son, Trey, together that same year.
The relationship was reportedly difficult and they divorced in 1995. Will Smith once admitted that their divorce was one of the most difficult times of his life.
Despite this, the two men remain close. In 2018, Will Smith called her “the best baby mama ever” in an Instagram post celebrating her birthday.
The couple even posed with their Best Actor Oscar after the 94th Academy Awards, during which they slapped comedian Chris Rock for making a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith.
While Will’s career and fame skyrocketed after their split. , Sheree didn’t quite follow the same trajectory. She appeared on all three seasons of VH1’s “Hollywood Exes,” a reality television show that documented the lives of women who dated famous people.
His castmates include Nicole Murphy, Eddie Murphy’s ex-wife, and Andrea Kelly, R. Kelly’s ex-wife.
Garcelle Beauvais, early 1990s
Garcelle Beauvais (pictured) revealed she only found out she was the other woman when she called Will Smith at an awkward moment
In 2020, Haitian-American actress Garcelle Beauvais revealed on an episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hill that she and Smith dated in the early 1990s.
The couple met on the set of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. She admitted in a 2022 interview that they were not in a “lasting relationship.”
“I was an ingénue, he was single and a TV star, so we went out a few times.”
She revealed that they were dating while he was married to Sheree and said she only found out when she called him at an awkward time when he was with Sheree and their son, Trey.
“I remember one day I called him and he was in the car. And his son, with Sheree, (they) were in the back.
“So you know, he picked up the car or the Bluetooth or whatever it was at the time, or the speakerphone – whatever it was – and he said, ‘Hey, how are you?’ I said, “I’m fine.”
“And I heard this little voice in the background say, ‘Is that Miss Jada?’
“And that’s when I was like, ‘Okay, I’m not the only one. “Exit stage left.
“If a child knows someone, then that person is a little more important, right?!”
Tyra Banks, 1993-1994
Tyra Banks (pictured) admitted that although she saw Will for a year, their relationship never “got serious”.
Will Smith dated model Tyra Banks between 1993 and 1994, after meeting during her audition for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, in what would be his first television acting role.
She managed to land the role and played his ex-girlfriend Jackie from Philadelphia for eight episodes in season four.
Although they dated for a year, reports claimed that nothing ever “got serious” between them.
It is currently unclear what their relationship was like, given that Smith was married to Sheree Zampino at the time.
Banks’ career flourished, appearing on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, as well as in editorials for Vogue, Elle, Vanity Fair and Harper’s Bazaar.
She was also a Victoria’s Secret Angel from 1997 to 2005.
Karine Steffans, 2004
It’s unclear how Karrine Steffans (pictured) and Will Smith’s relationship worked, given that he was long married to Jada Pinkett Smith when they were seeing each other.
Karrine Steffans reportedly dated Will Smith in 2004, while he was still with then-wife Sheree Zampino.
There is no exact timeline of their relationship, and although there are no official reports of a relationship between the couple, she is said to have mentioned the relationship in her book “The Vixen Diaries.”
Now 45, she ran away from home at the age of 16 and began working as an exotic dancer, after a long and troubled childhood in the US Virgin Islands and Florida.
Despite this, she became a multiple New York Times bestselling author with her series of autobiographies.
It’s unclear how their relationship worked out, given that Smith was then long married to Jada Pinkett Smith.
Jada Pinkett Smith, 1995–present
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith began dating shortly after his divorce from then-husband Sheree Fletcher in 1995, having met a year prior on the set of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith began dating shortly after his divorce from then-husband Sheree Fletcher in 1995, having met a year prior on the set of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Although Will was initially interested in her, he didn’t move on and dated Tyra Banks for a year.
The couple married in 1997, when Jada was pregnant. She later admitted that she “didn’t really want to get married” to Will Smith.
“I was under so much pressure, being a young actress. I just didn’t know what to do,” she said in a 2022 episode of her talk show Red Table.
“I was so upset about having to get married. I was so upset I went crying in the fucking aisle. I cried all the way down the aisle,” she added.
His mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, admitted the marriage was “horrible”.
‘It was a mess. Jada was sick, she was very unpleasant… She wasn’t cooperating with anything.
But the same couldn’t be said for Will, who said in the same episode, “There wasn’t a day in my life that I wanted anything other than to be married and have a family.”
“From the age of 5, I imagined what my family would be like.”
Their marriage was rocky from the start, and became even rockier in 2013 when she led the world to believe they had an open relationship, after telling an interviewer: “I always told Will: ” You can do what you want. you want so much that you can look in the mirror and everything is fine.”
“Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I’m here as a partner, but he’s his own man.
She later clarified her comments and said in a social media post: “An open marriage? The statement I made about “Will can do whatever he wants” highlighted the need to discuss the relationship between trust and love and how they coexist. »
She revealed earlier this year that they had been separated since 2016 and were no longer living together, although they are still married.
She told NBC News at the time that she had promised herself that she and Will would never divorce and had tried her best not to break that promise.
But in 2020 it was revealed she had an affair with rapper August Alsina, 23, a friend of her son Jaden, when she was 44.
She initially denied the relationship, but later admitted that she had a “relationship” with him.
