Former glamour model Emily Horne, 30, was given a 10-month sentence suspended for two years at Manchester Crown Court.
Honeymoon
The offence came to light after she married her fifth husband, Oldham man Ashley Baker, and told him on their honeymoon that she was married to four other men.
Horne married her first husband - soldier Paul Rigby - in 1996 and notched up four weddings by the time she was 23, but she has never divorced.
After the case, Horne revealed she had expected to be jailed. "I thought I was going to go down," she said, adding: "I feel vindicated. My reaction is it's time I got a divorce."
'Disgrace'
Mr Baker's mother, Susan Baker-Conway, 45, described the sentence as `a disgrace' and added: "I'm very annoyed. Her defence was all nonsense."
Horne, who suffers from bi-polar disorder, only told Mr Baker about her past on the pair's wedding night.
They had tied the knot at Chadderton town hall in 2007, celebrated with an all-you-can eat Chinese in Oldham and were on the way to a Scottish honeymoon when she told him.
Massage parlour
Despite that, the pair, who met at a Rochdale massage parlour, remained together until she made a false allegation about him to the police and he told officers of her past.
Paul Hodgkinson, defending Horne, said she had began to show signs of mental illness after the death of her grandmother in 1991.
He said she had suffered an abusive childhood and did not want to contact Mr Rigby after hearing he was jailed for two years after helping to dispose of the body of a 17-year-old girl in Northern Ireland in 1998.
Banker
After leaving Mr Rigby, Horne, who now lives in the West Midlands, wed banker Sean Cunningham in Leeds in 1999. But she left him for website designer Chris Barrett, and the couple wed in 2000.
West Yorkshire Police became aware of Horne's serial marriages and cautioned her for two offences of bigamy in 2001. But a year later she wed again - using her glamour model name Amileannya Carmichael to marry rail guard James Matthews. She was convicted of bigamy in 2004 and jailed for six months.
Sentencing Horne for her latest offence, Judge Mushtaq Khokhar slammed Horne for `undermining the institution of marriage' by getting wed `at the drop of a hat'.
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Why does she feel vindicated?
Horne revealed she had expected to be jailed.
I bet she would have had she been a man
Five times!
Isn't once more than enough for anybody?
I am looking for a good Chinese restaurant in Oldham, does anyone know which All you can eat restaurant they went to?
" Why does she feel vindicated?
salfordrat
28/07/2009 at 08:29"
I don't think she has a true grasp of the English language.
Is this really ever an offence worthy of going to prison?
Especially when burglars are given community orders and tagged curfews.
Golly, as she gets older, her gorgeous good looks that must have helped her as a glamour model will surely soon fade...
Bonkers.
Look at the way she poses for every picture. Something of a Heather Mills i think. Living in a world of her own.
"Former glamour model"? Which radio station was this for?
Noticed the desperate men who married her were no oil paintings.
The judge said "she was undermining the institution......", the judge didn't do any better by not jailing her, she went to jail the first time she was caught, obviously she didn't learn anything from that experience, instead of a longer jail term, she got a suspended sentence. What kind of justice system is that?
Perhaps she celebrated her sentence at the local Chinese.
Hey come on now? Can't say she wouldn't give Katie/Jordan a run for her money? Ha! Ha!
An attention-seeker as described by a psychologist on tv, not that we need him to diagnose it.
“A SERIAL bigamist has vowed to get a divorce before she weds again”
My god don’t these people ever learn, hasn’t she had enough weeding cake to last a lifetime?
She feels vindicated? So she's saying all this suspicion was false? Haha, methinks you are wrong and five other blokes will say the same thing. Dear me...
Gay marriage, Bigamy, Divorce.
What difference does it make? Marriage has become meaningless. A sad joke.
Jeremy Kyle fodder if ever I saw it....
Why anyone should want to gat married even once is beyond me. Its horrible. (speaking from 21 years experience)
I wonder if shes trying to get points for her bride weekly loyalty card?
She obviously likes "Wedding Cake".
She says she is a "House Keeper".
Every time she split with a bloke she kept the house?
Look on the bright side, it's only one divorce, the others don't count as it wasn't legal. Saves on solicitors fees.
Maybe the lass has a point.
Do they both get to flog their sordid story to the tabloids and 'lifestyle' magazines ?