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Bandmates Meg and Jack White

White Stripes' Meg White Still The Moon In Ex-Husband's Star Galaxy

By N. StagN. Stag

SO I JUST So I just read that Jackson Smith, son of my idol Patti Smith and the late great rocker of the coincidentally named Fred 'Sonic' Smith, tied the knot to White Stripe's Meg White, ex wife to the other half of her band and rock star at-large, Jack White.

Meg White and Jackson Smith, guartist for the Detroit band Back In Spades, were married May 22 at Jack White's house in Nashville, which I assume he shares with supermodel wife Karen Elson and two babes.

It was a double wedding, the other couple being bassist for Jack White's newer bands The Raconteurs and Dead Weather and some lady no one's ever heard of.

So, imagine you and your ex being in a wildly successful band when he leaves Detroit, marries a model and starts a sort of all-star band instead.

Then YOU marry another rocker in your ex's backyard, sharing the stage with the bassist in your ex's newer bands, in a place totally not your home, totally not Detroit (where Jackson and Meg still live).

Keeping up? It gets trickier. I met Jackson and Meg briefly before they were dating, through former Von Bondies' member Marcie Bolen.

Bolen dated Jack White when he famously attacked the VB's frontman Jason Stollsteimer. Bolen also dated Jackson Smith, the now new husband to Jack's ex-wife. AND in my opinion, she looks like a mix between Meg White and Karen Elson.

Also, Jack White's newest project, another all-star band of sorts called Dead Weather includes Alison Mosshart of The Kills, the first band the Von Bondies toured with. And Jamie Hince of The Kills is dating a supermodel too -- serial rockstar dater Kate Moss

! Do you think any of this has to do with anything? I could go on like this forever, but I won't.

N. Stag is a graduate of the University of Michigan and winner of seven writing awards for fiction and fashion-writing. She has written for many websites and currently teaches English.

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It was pretty well known that Karen dated James. They even worked on an album together, but it was never released.

How did I not know about this? I used to have a crush on James Iha as a teen and knew that Marcie dated him but never figured that one out. How did you?

You forgot that Marcie Bolen also dated James Iha who dated Karen Elson shortly before dating Marcie. It's all a crazy mixed up game of sloppy seconds.

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