Celebrities/Famous Poly Role Models

LondonGuy

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Are there any well known celebrities (or celebrity couples) out there who are poly?

I've always been certain that Billy Connolly and Pamela Stephenson are poly, here's my reasons...

She's a doctor of psychology who specialised in Human sexuality and always comes across as very sex positive in interviews and such.

He once made a speech on Comic relief in about 2006 after a number of world tragedies had happened (including the Boxing Day Tsunami) - I've looked for it online and can't find it but his speech went something like "people say that they're having charity fatigue, I say that's bullshit!! That's like saying I have love fatigue or I don't have enough love to go around"

As I say I'm certain they're poly and I don't think I could find greater role models than them in terms of humour, intelligence, political inclinations or good willed nature. But I do wonder... are there others out there?
 
I can think of lots that had multiple loving relationships but whether they'd constitute ethical non monogamy is another thing. I mean, wives of celebrities have been known to "turn a blind eye" so I guess that's comparable to a DADT. Then I guess the Free Love era were totally open so celebs were probably forthcoming about non monogamy. I think the celeb who ticks all the poly boxes is Simon Cowell with his harem.
 
Are there any well known celebrities (or celebrity couples) out there who are poly?

Here are some historical examples of people who had triad relationships, if that is of any use:

Admiral Horatio Nelson
Giacomo Casanova
Jean Baptiste Poquelin (Moliere)
Emma Goldman
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Alexandre Dumas
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten
Oskar Schindler
Jean Paul Sartre
Simone de Beavoir
Henry Miller
Lawrence Olivier
Virginia Wolf
Denise Richards
Angelina Jolie
Matt Dilon
Salvador Dali
Voltaire
Pablo Picasso
President Francois Miterrand
George Bernard Shaw
Aldous Huxley
D.H. Lawrence
Bertrand Russell
Marlene Dietrich
Greta Garbo
Cary Grant
H.G. Wells
John Maynard Keynes
Ernest Hemingway
Neve Campbell
 
The two I know of are American comedian M'onique, and the actress Tilda Swinton.
 
Neve Campbell

Really? I had not heard that. I had the worst crush on her. And then, while on the Rosie O'Donnell show, she admitted she didn't know what 'incendiary' meant. My crush ended right there. (Yeah, I'm a vocabulary snob.)

Most of the others, I was aware of. Although it can be tricky to apply 'polyamory' to historical figures.
 
Really? I had not heard that.

That might be wrong (the list came from a book I've got). I've found other references to the bulk of them, but maybe the authors were confused by this.
 
northhome,

That was more of 'huh, really!' than a 'No way, you are incorrect!' comment from me. Your list is plausible. I'm trained as an historian so I always doubt applying modern concepts of love and relationships back in time but that's my own baggage.
 
Not sure if "Poly" is the best descriptor, but there's this letter Amelia Earhart wrote to her husband-to-be.
 
Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman.

Wow, I didn't know that.

Wait. Do you mean to tell me that Neil Gaimon is AVAILABLE??? I better start going to conventions again...
 
Here are some historical examples of people who had triad relationships, if that is of any use:

President Francois Miterrand

Mitterrand wasn't in a triad. Actually, I seem to recall his wife didn't even meet his girlfriend until he was either dying or dead, I can't remember which (and at that point his daughter from the girlfriend was already an adult). The wife knew, as did many people, but it was, for one thing, a vee, not a triad, and for another, it was one of those "I'll look the other way and tolerate it" examples previously mentioned.
 
Mitterrand wasn't in a triad

I stand corrected. It was all very 'discrète'. Sounds like they met after his death.

"François Mitterrand est mort depuis deux heures. A son chevet, que viennent de quitter Anne Pingeot et sa fille, arrivent Danielle et ses deux fils. Le moment est pénible. André Rousselet, l’exécuteur testamentaire, se racle la gorge. "Pour les obsèques, comment fait-on avec l’autre famille?" interroge-t-il. La réponse de Danielle fuse. "Elle n’a pas à être là." Les deux fils se regardent. "On a discuté, se souvient Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, et assez vite il a paru évident que tout le monde devait être là." Les deux vies parallèles allaient pouvoir se rejoindre."

Here's the background.
 
Just finished reading Savage Beauty, a biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay, the first woman to win a Pulitzer for Poetry (her poetry was quite beautiful!). She and her husband, Eugen Boissevain, had an open marriage and both had lovers from the very beginning, acknowledged and often known by the other, and very often close friends with them both. They were also nudists, to a fair degree, along with certain of their friends. Edna definitely engaged in more dalliances and other relationships outside their marriage than Eugen did. She had been quite promiscuous since an early age and was not about to give up her lovers when she got married. She was also bisexual, and an icon to Jazz Age women who were coming into their own and asserting themselves in more ways than before, but especially with owning and exploring their sexuality.

In one of her letters included in the book (I don't recall to whom), she said, "Why should I be faithful just because I am married? Why should I be unfaithful just because I'm married?"

She was born in 1892 and died in 1950.
 
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Apparently, Rachel Ray's husband is quite often seen on dates with other women openly as well as at swinger clubs. He denies it and she just says she won't talk about it.
 
I believe one recent thread sez we can add Cameron Diaz to the list?

Also (for those who can stand her), Ayn Rand seems to have had multiple men in her love life (which they knew and consented to).
 
Wikipedia sez that Rachael Ray (redirected from Rachel Ray) is married to John Cusimano.

Mr. Ray, indeed! :cool:
 
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