http://channel6newsonline.com/2011/0...year-old-girl/
LAS VEGAS (BNO NEWS) -- Actor Doug Hutchison, who is best known for his role as corrections officer Percy Wetmore in the movie 'The Green Mile', has married his 16-year-old girlfriend in Las Vegas, he confirmed on Monday.
A brief update on Hutchison's website showed a wedding photo and said the couple was married on May 20 at noon local time at the Little Chapel of the Flowers in Las Vegas. "Mr. and Ms. Hutchison live happily ensconced in their Hollywood Hills, [California] home with their lil' pups, Everette and Tuna!" the statement said.
The news that Hutchison, 51, married Courtney Alexis Stodden, 16, led to a storm of criticism online due to their age difference, although it is legal. "We're aware that our vast age difference is extremely controversial," the couple said in a statement to E! Online. "But we're very much in love and want to get the message out there that true love can be ageless."
Hutchison is best known for his role as corrections officer Percy Wetmore in the popular 1996 movie 'The Green Mile.' He is also known as Eugene Victor Tooms in 'The X-Files', as Horace Goodspeed in 'Lost' and as Davros in '24.'
Stodden was previously a contestant for Miss Washington Teen USA 2010 but lost the race to 17-year-old Camilla Cyr. She is also a self-described "upcoming recording artist that writes her own music" and a model, as well as a dancer.
Some questioned whether the marriage was legal because of Stodden's young age, but Nevada state law allows teens under the age of 18 to marry with parental consent. "We are totally supportive of this marriage," Courtney's mother Krista Stodden told Radar Online, confirming that at least one parent had to sign the permission form for the marriage to take place.
In a YouTube video uploaded by Stodden in December 2010, she describes herself as a Christian girl and said she did not want to have sex until she got married. "About myself; I am a Christian girl. I hold my faith very tightly, and I'm a virgin. And I plan to stay that way until I'm married," she said.
Even though the age of consent in California, where they will live, is 18, this does not apply when the minor was legally married in any U.S. state.
And the lil lady:
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