Glynn Wolfe

Glynn DeMoss Wolfe's{{cite news |title=Hotelman Weds Ex-Wife Again |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-hotelman-weds-ex-w/147590926/ |access-date=May 18, 2024 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=December 17, 1964 |location=Los Angeles, California |page=35}} father, John Wolfe, was a coal mine operator in Freelandville and the sheriff of Knox County.{{cite news |title=State Near End of Case Against Ex-Sheriff's Son |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evansville-courier-and-press/117350259/ |access-date=May 16, 2024 |work=Evansville Courier & Press |date=February 13, 1941 |location=Evansville, Indiana |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}

In 1960, Wolfe was a candidate for justice of the peace in Las Vegas, campaigning on better retirement homes and extra assistance to elderly people.{{cite news |title=Experienced Man |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-spokesman-review-glynn-wolfe/72021383/ |access-date=May 15, 2024 |work=The Spokesman-Review |agency=Associated Press |date=August 7, 1960 |location=Spokane, Washington |page=11 |via=Newspapers.com}} He placed last during the primaries.{{cite news |title=Jury to Probe Validity Of Minister Weddings |url=https://www.newspapers.com/org/article/nevada-state-journal-jury-to-probe-valid/147466813/ |access-date=May 15, 2024 |work=Nevada State Journal |agency=United Press International |date=November 16, 1960 |location=Reno, Nevada |page=7 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news |title=His 16th Marriage—Preacher To Rewed 19-Year-Old Ex-Wife |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-his-16th-marriage/147544965/ |access-date=May 17, 2024 |work=The Indianapolis Star |agency=United Press International |date=December 16, 1964 |location=Indianapolis, Indiana |page=25 |via=Newspapers.com}} That same year, Wolfe was ordained a Baptist minister of the Traveler's Rest Baptist Church in Los Angeles, but "sort of lost interest" in his ministry when his license to perform marriages was revoked, and abandoned it to pursue a career as a barber.{{Cite news |last=Crews Jr. |first=Watson |date=24 Jul 1966 |title=Too Broke for Divorce After 17 Teen Wives |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-too-broke-for-divorce-after-1/147471423/ |work=New York Daily News |pages=977}}

During his 7th marriage to a woman named Mary, Wolfe bought an all-women hotel in Hollywood, a neighborhood of Los Angeles. He later stopped operating the hotel, and began operating a new hotel in Las Vegas.{{cite news |title=Hotelman Divorced for 13th Time |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-hotelman-divorced/147604829/ |access-date=May 18, 2024 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=September 20, 1963 |location=Los Angeles, California |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Wolfe died on June 10, 1997, in a Redlands, California, nursing home of heart disease at the age of 88.{{Cite news |date=1997-06-19 |title=Glynn Wolfe Dies; Married 29 Times |work=Buffalo News |url=https://buffalonews.com/news/glynn-wolfe-dies-married-29-times/article_3093664f-20f6-511d-9377-ff1147571fd7.html |access-date=2022-01-16}}{{Cite news |title=Glynn 'Scotty' Wolfe, Guiness's Most-Married Man, Dies at 88 |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/06/20/glynn-scotty-wolfe-guinnesss-most-married-man-dies-at-88/f7f0bc79-37fc-4ceb-aff2-9b2d8ef2b763/ |access-date=2022-01-16}} His body went unclaimed, and he was eventually buried in Blythe. None of the 28 women he legally married, and only one of his approximately 19 children,{{efn|name=children}} attended the funeral service.{{cite news |last=Moehringer |first=J.R. |date=August 16, 1997 |title=Marrying marathoner dies alone: After taking and discarding 29 brides, Glynn "Scotty" Wolfe spent his last years as a bachelor |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1997-08-16-1997228033-story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115230403/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1997-08-16/news/1997228033_1_scotty-married-farcical |url-status=live |archive-date=January 15, 2013 |access-date=November 8, 2017}}

Between 1926 and until his death in 1997, Wolfe married 29 different women.{{Cite news |date=1997-06-20 |title=Glynn "Scotty" Wolfe; World's Most Married Man |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-20-me-5329-story.html |access-date=2023-01-16}} Most of his marriages were to teenagers. In an interview with the New York Daily News, he described them as "fun", saying he could "just speak their language".

His shortest marriage lasted 19 days, and his longest lasted eleven years. Three of his marriages were to women he had previously divorced: remarried Charlotte Devane in 1936, after divorcing earlier that year; remarried Katherine Archer in 1949 after divorcing the previous year; and Sharon Goodwin in 1960 after divorcing the previous year. Five of his marriages ended with the death of a spouse, surviving his 1st, 8th, 9th and 23rd wife, before being survived by his 31st wife. His longest marriage was for 11 years, to his 28th wife, Christine Camacho, who was 37 years his junior. His 29th wife was Bonny Lee Bakley, who was herself married ten times; she was murdered, and her last husband, Hollywood actor Robert Blake, was charged in connection with her death. He was found not guilty, but was found liable in a wrongful death lawsuit, and Bakley's murder remains unsolved.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}

Wolfe's final marriage was to Linda Taylor in 1996 at Quartzsite, Arizona, who—at the time—was the record holder for the most-married woman, having been married 28 times. The marriage was performed as a publicity stunt, and Taylor returned to Indiana a week after the wedding.{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Tracy |date=February 27, 2009 |title=Linda Lou Taylor Wolfe, world's most married woman, says she'd get hitched a 24th time |newspaper=The New York Daily News |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/linda-lou-taylor-wolfe-world-married-woman-hitched-24th-time-article-1.391811 |access-date=February 6, 2022}}{{cite news |last1=Marshall |first1=Konrad |title=After 23 'I do's,' Ind. woman still seeks love |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/star-gazette-after-23-i-dos-ind-wom/147479990/ |access-date=May 16, 2024 |work=Star-Gazette |date=February 22, 2009 |location=Elmira, New York |page=3E |via=Newspapers.com}}

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