Editing Billy Bob Thornton (section)

===Marriages and family===
[[File:Billy Bob Thornton.jpg|thumb|right|Thornton with [[the Boxmasters]], 2007]]
Thornton has been married six times. He has four children by three women.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Billy Bob Thornton Is Married &mdash; Again! |url=https://www.tvguide.com/news/billy-bob-thornton-married/ |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=TVGuide.com |language=en}}</ref>

From 1978 to 1980, he was married to Melissa Lee Gatlin, who in her [[divorce]] petition cited "incompatibility and adultery on his part". They had a daughter Amanda (Brumfield),<ref name="Castro">{{cite journal |last=Castro |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Castro |date=April 28, 1997 |title=Sling This|journal=[[People (American magazine)|People]] |volume=47 |issue=16 |access-date=February 23, 2020 |url= https://people.com/archive/sling-this-vol-47-no-16/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110331030509/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20121962,00.html |archive-date=March 31, 2011 |url-status=live  }}</ref> who in 2008 was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the death of her friend's one-year-old daughter.<ref>{{cite news |title=Billy Bob Thornton's daughter sentenced to 20 years in prison |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billy-bob-thorntons-daughter-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison/ |work=CBS News |publisher=AP / CBS Interactive Inc. |access-date=May 20, 2019 |ref=October 7, 2011}}</ref> The Innocence Project of Florida began representing Amanda in 2015 and claim that the child's death was entirely accidental. Amanda was freed in 2020 after a deal was reached with prosecutors prior to an [[evidentiary hearing]] to provide medical and scientific evidence of her innocence.<ref>{{cite web|title=Amanda Brumfield|url=https://www.floridainnocence.org/amanda-brumfield|website=Florida Innocence Project |access-date=January 9, 2022}}</ref>

Thornton married actress Toni Lawrence in 1986; they separated the following year and divorced in 1988. From 1990 to 1992, he was married to actress [[Cynda Williams]], who was cast in his writing debut ''[[One False Move]]'' (1992). In 1993, Thornton married ''[[Playboy]]'' model Pietra Dawn Cherniak, with whom he had two sons. The marriage ended in 1997 with Cherniak accusing Thornton of [[spousal abuse]], sometimes in front of his children.<ref name="Castro" /><ref>{{cite web|last=Pesce|first=Nicole Lyn|title=Billy Bob Thornton accused of stalking former sister-in-law|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/billy-bob-thornton-accused-stalking-sister-in-law-article-1.330980|website=New York Daily News |access-date=February 23, 2020 |date=May 21, 2008}}</ref>

Thornton dated [[Laura Dern]] (despite reports, they were never engaged) from 1997 to 1999, but in 2000, he married actress [[Angelina Jolie]], with whom he starred in ''[[Pushing Tin]]'' (1999) and who was nearly 20 years his junior. The marriage became known for the couple's eccentric displays of affection, which reportedly included wearing vials of each other's blood around their necks; Thornton later clarified that the "vials" were actually two small [[lockets]], each containing only a single drop of blood.<ref name="jamshowbiz" /><ref>{{cite web |url= https://classic.esquire.com/article/2005/7/1/billy-bob-thornton|title= What I've Learned: Billy Bob Thornton|work=Esquire|date=July 1, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070329063916/http://men.msn.com/articlees.aspx?cp-documentid=760901&GT1=9212 |archive-date=March 29, 2007  }}</ref> Thornton and Jolie announced the adoption of a child from [[Cambodia]] in March 2002, but it was later revealed that Jolie had adopted the child as a [[single parent]].<ref>Smolowe, Jill. [https://people.com/archive/marriage-interrupted-vol-58-no-6/ Marriage, Interrupted]. ''People''. August 5, 2002. Retrieved February 23, 2020.</ref><ref>Stein, Ruthe. [https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Billy-Bob-Thornton-likes-staying-put-3163083.php Billy Bob Thornton Likes Staying Put]. "San Francisco Chronicle". April 26, 2009. Retrieved February 23, 2020.</ref> They separated in June 2002 and divorced the following year.<ref>{{cite news|title=Thornton Jolie Divorce is final|date=May 30, 2003|work=Stevens Point Journal|location=Stevens Point, Wisconsin|page=16|publisher = [[Ancestry.com#Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

In 2003, Thornton began a relationship with [[Makeup effects artist|makeup effects]] crew member Connie Angland, with whom he has a daughter.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-12-19|title=Bella Thornton-Age,Movies, 2021,clark, instagram,Biography,Wikipedia|url=https://www.anchorswiki.com/bella-thornton/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123162142/https://www.anchorswiki.com/bella-thornton/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 23, 2021|access-date=2021-10-22|website=AnchorsWiki|language=en-GB}}</ref> Although he once said that he likely would not marry again<ref>{{cite news |title=Thornton swears off marriage |url=http://www.showbizspy.com/article/113789/thornton-swears-off-marriage.html |newspaper=ShowbizSpy |date=July 21, 2008 |access-date=July 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717041959/http://www.showbizspy.com/article/113789/thornton-swears-off-marriage.html |archive-date=July 17, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> since marriage "doesn't work" for him,<ref>''The Billy Bob Tapes: A Cave Full of Ghosts'' B.B. Thornton. 2012. Virgin Digital</ref> his representatives confirmed that he and Angland were married on October 22, 2014, in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://people.com/celebrity/billy-bob-thornton-marries-connie-angland/|title=Billy Bob Thornton Weds Long-Time Girlfriend Connie Angland – in October! |magazine=People |date=February 21, 2015 |access-date=February 23, 2020}}</ref>