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7 Celebs Who Married Cousins

Bach, Rudy, Einstein all kept it in the family

By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 11, 2007 5:54 PM CST

(Newser) – These seven celebrities looked no further than their own family tree for a bride, Mental Floss reports—they married their cousins:

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach: Had 7 of his 20 children with Maria.
  2. Edgar Allen Poe: Fell for Virginia when she was 7; they wed when
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