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Right, I don't have any proof, but I think it would be the other way around.

Top execs are often married to their jobs with less time for family. Actors are exposed often to very liberal and beautiful people (affairs are common). And people on the lower economic rungs are more incentivized to stay together to spend less money.

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> And people on the lower economic rungs are more incentivized to stay together to spend less money.

The research actually shows that the upper end of the income distribution is more likely to 1) marry and 2) remain married. The lower and middle classes have been most disrupted by social change in the last 50 years.

Probably depends exactly where you draw the line, though - the A-list rich and famous types might well have greater rates of divorce, but there are few enough of them to bring down the average of the top 10% of earners or what have you.

A-list marriages are a very small group less than 1% of 1% or 1% of average rich/upper class people. They are usually part business strategy as well.

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