Former Glamour Model Faces Jail for Marrying 5 Dudes

From the Times:

"A former glamour model who has admitted that she married her fifth husband without divorcing her previous four faces a possible prison sentence.

Emily Horne, 31, has already served six months in jail for serial bigamy. Horne, of Kingswinford, West Midlands, confessed her latest bigamous union to her most recent husband as they travelled to Scotland for their honeymoon.

Once described by a judge as a “very predatory female”, Horne appeared before Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester, where she admitted marrying Ashley Baker, in Oldham, Greater Manchester, in September 2007. Horne had changed her name on marriage certificates frequently to avoid detection. "

Horne, 30, who studied physics but made her living, allegedly, as a "glamour model' and escort, is the villainess of the day across the pond. Because Horne has married five times - without first obtaining divorces. She married her high school boyfriend - legally - at 18, but although the two soon drifted apart, the marriage was never legally dissolved, and so her next marriage, three years later, wasn't legal. When she married a third time in 2000, the authorities took note and issued a caution, but this didn't stop her from a third illegal marriage, under a different name, two years later. When she allegedly attempted to leave her fourth husband for a friend of his, he turned on her and ratted her out to the cops. Horne served six months. The judge at the time said, "You are an attractive young woman and you might be described as a very predatory female."

So what, then, would prompt her to marry a fifth man in 2007? And to then confess the reality of her situation mere hour after the wedding, with press clippings to prove it? A "predatory female?" Try, "deeply disturbed." She lied and manipulated and obviously hurt people deeply - apparently she claimed she'd lost a sister and given up a baby, and told husband #5 that she had "womb cancer" - but what was the pathology at work that led this woman to risk certain capture in order to "marry" yet again? She doesn't seem to have used the relationships for material grifting gain - so to dismiss her as some kind of black widow seems an oversimplification, and far less troubling than the reality.