Who was Madonna married to from 1985-1989?

In the mid-1980s, the union of pop music's reigning queen and a famously intense young actor created one of Hollywood's most explosive and widely covered couples. They first met in early 1985 on the set of her iconic music video for "Material Girl." A whirlwind romance quickly followed, and the two were married on her 27th birthday in August of that same year, beginning a highly publicized four-year marriage that ended in 1989.

Their relationship was notoriously volatile, earning them the media nickname the "Poison Penns." The actor's frequent and aggressive clashes with the paparazzi became legendary, while their joint film venture, 1986's "Shanghai Surprise," was a well-known critical and commercial failure. Despite the constant turmoil, the passion that defined their marriage was also on public display. The pop superstar dedicated her blockbuster 1986 album "True Blue" to him, famously calling him "the coolest guy in the universe" in the liner notes.

Though the marriage officially ended in January 1989, the two have since cultivated a supportive friendship. In the decades following their divorce, they have often spoken of each other with mutual respect, putting a surprisingly amicable postscript on one of the most turbulent celebrity romances of the decade.