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Cameron Diaz is now doubling her pleasure by dating Leonardo DiCaprio and Jude Law. VIEW OUR GALLERY of celebrity couples that became triples.

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When Cameron Diaz went to England to film a movie, little did Londoners know that she’d be claiming the best men for herself. Diaz has been dating both Leonardo DiCaprio and Jude Law. The Sun reports that she’s been going on “secret dates” with Leo, and has also been hanging out with her “good friend” Jude Law, whom the paper calls a “top shagger.”

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Even though Meg Ryan had been married to Dennis Quaid for 10 years, she wasn’t afraid to juggle another man when she met Russell Crowe on the set of Proof of Life in 2000. Ryan blamed her breakup with Quaid on her inability to balance a relationship with a hectic work schedule.

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Among the most famous love triangles is the one that gave the world Brangelina—Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and Jennifer Aniston. Brad and Jen seemed happily married until he met a new leading lady, Angelina Jolie, on the set of Mrs. & Mrs. Smith in 2005. During filming, Pitt would spend his days courting Jolie on set, and come home to Aniston at night. The marriage didn’t last much longer after that: Aniston and Pitt divorced officially in 2005. But six babies later, Brangelina is still very much on—and Aniston is still bitter, telling Vogue in November that what Angelina did “ was really uncool.”

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After Liz Taylor’s third husband died in a tragic plane accident, Eddie Fisher and his wife, Debbie Reynolds, spent a lot of time comforting their good friend. But then Fisher left his wife for Taylor. Reynolds said later she understood getting dumped for “the world’s most beautiful woman.” Payback is a bitch, though. Five years after Taylor married Fisher, she left him—for Richard Burton.

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When Tom Brady’s girlfriend of three years, Bridget Moynahan, was pregnant with their son, the Patriots quarterback called an audible—and ran into the arms of supermodel Gisele Bündchen. Brady and Bündchen married in an intimate ceremony in Santa Monica, California, on February 26. And let’s hope Brady isn’t a repeat offender: Gisele is now pregnant with his child.

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It’s hard to know how long the love triangle among Camilla Parker Bowles, Prince Charles, and Princess Diana really lasted, but throughout their marriage, Camilla was a presence in Charles’ life. A year after Charles and Diana divorced, however, Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris, which drove his affair with Camilla out of the public eye. Charles and Parker Bowles were married in 2005.

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Before Britney, Kevin Federline was dating Shar Jackson, mother of his two children. When Jackson was pregnant with his second child, K-Fed, who was a dancer in Britney’s squad, began an affair with the pop tart, “He cheated, he lied, he left,” Jackson said after the relationship. But what goes around comes around: After two years of marriage and two kids, Federline and Spears parted ways in 2006, leaving K-Fed with sole custody.

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Only Sean Combs could have a child with one woman, cheat on her with another, and then cheat on her with the first one. The serial dater, who has five children but has never been married, seemed to be perfectly in love with his girlfriend, Kim Porter, after she gave birth to his son, Christian Casey Combs, in 1998. But the very next year, while still with Porter, Combs began dating Jennifer Lopez. In 2000, Combs told New York's Power 105.1 that he had gone back to his baby mama: “I cheated on her with Kim, but it wasn’t cheating to me.” And Porter welcomed him with open arms, convinced that he never had feelings for J.Lo in the first place. “He was still in love with me,” she said. The pair had twins together in 2006, but officially split a year after that.

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Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon met at her 21st-birthday party and were engaged a year later. The golden-tressed Hollywood couple had two adorable children and the family became the darling of the tabloids. Then Phillippe met Aussie actress Abbie Cornish on the set of Stop-Loss, where they reportedly started a romantic relationship (both vehemently denied they were seeing each other). The infidelity rumors split up the seven-year marriage of Reese and Ryan, and Phillippe refused to be seen at public events with his young girlfriend (who was a ringer for Reese) until over a year later.

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You’d think Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora would be happy to be married to dream girl Heather Locklear, but Sambora sought love elsewhere, beginning an affair with her best friend, ex-Mrs. Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards. A year later, in 2007, the relationship of Sambora and Richards went the way so many others do. Their split was “amicable” and the pair has remained friends.

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Almost Famous star Crudup met Claire Danes on the set of Stage Beauty, and soon left his partner of seven years, Mary-Louise Parker, who was eight months pregnant with their son. But Parker didn’t let it get to her: When she had her son in January 2004, she named him William Atticus, after his unfaithful father. Crudup and Danes stayed together for four years, but Danes gave him a dose of his own medicine when she met Hugh Dancy on the set of Evening in 2007.

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While married to Mia Farrow, Woody Allen admitted to a relationship with her adopted daughter, then-22-year-old Soon-Yi Previn, after Farrow discovered nude photographs of Soon-Yi in his apartment. Allen later called this unwitting discovery “one of the fortuitous events, one of the great pieces of luck in my life,” adding that in retrospect, “I should have bowed out of that relationship much earlier than I did.” The Hollywood couple split, and a nasty public custody battle ensued. Allen remains married to Soon-Yi.

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Mick Jagger found himself in a bit of a pickle when his wife, Bianca, didn’t take to his supermodel girlfriend Jerry Hall. They ended up divorcing on the grounds of adultery, but Bianca wasn’t surprised their marriage had failed. Jagger woke her up the morning after their wedding day and demanded she sign away all property claims in the event of a divorce. "My marriage ended on my wedding day," she said. Jagger was married to Hall for 20 years, but continued liaisons with younger women. "In our society, we're supposed to be monogamous, but we're not," Jagger said. "In other societies, you don't have to be monogamous.”

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