In Hernando, Mississippi, Myra Gale Brown married 22-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis when she was 13 years old. The marriage would essentially ruin Lewis’ career.
Myra Gale Brown married 22-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis in 1957.
Lewis had already been married twice. When people discovered that his second marriage in September 1953 had occurred 23 days prior to the finalization of his first divorce, it created quite a commotion.
But the disturbance was nothing in comparison to what his third marriage would bring forth. It was revealed that his new wife, 13-year-old Myra Gale Brown, was also his third cousin, despite the fact that he had remarried before his divorce was finalized.
