The Divorce by Fax Scandal
Most musicians have had a bad breakup or two that hit the headlines, but have you heard of divorce via fax before? Collins’s love life (he’s been married three times) has been nothing short of scandalous. Sometimes it’s the wives (or ex-wives) who want the publicity and sometimes it’s just Collins behaving badly.
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Case in point: he ended his second marriage to Jill Tavelman (an American) in the ‘90s by sending her a fax. The fax was then plastered on the front cover of The Sun. It didn’t help the man’s already dwindling reputation. In 2016, Collins said, “It really hurt my career, or my public persona. And it was based on an untruth.”