Metalliwives

Everything there is to know on the internet about the wives and girlfriends of the members of Metallica in one handy place.

Updates: May 23, 2001. Two new pictures.

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Lani Hammett

Facts: Married Kirk Hammett at 2pm January 31, 1998 in Hawaii. In VH1's Fanclub: Metallica, Kirk talks about a fan who's an undertaker. The fan got him into the morgue to watch an autopsy. Kirk says it was one of his first dates with his wife, and that because of it, he knew she was the woman for him.

Rumors: According to the Groupie Central message boards, she used to be a bartender and "scenester," and Kirk pursued her for quite a while before they ever got together. According to the metallica.com message boards, Kirk and Lani met in a gay bar. Someone on the Groupie Central message boards also said that Lani is an artist, but she couldn't remember what  medium. Some time between The Black Album and Load, Kirk broke up with his girlfriend, and then got back together with her. Lani may or may not be that girlfriend. The most pervasive Kirk and Lani rumor is that they go to sex clubs together with a third party who plays the slave. Supposedly Kirk once told this to a European magazine in an interview, but because no one can cite the source precisely, even though there is an interview in which Kirk talked about sex clubs, I'm putting it under rumors.

Julie

Facts: None.

Rumors: She may be the girlfriend described as a "psycho." She and Kirk supposedly dated after he and Sara broke up but before he met Lani. General consensus is that they dated sometime in 1995 or 1996.

Sara(h)

Facts: Dated Kirk.

Rumors: According to the Groupie Central message boards, Sara(h) was a law student who lived with Kirk during one set of fires in California, possibly in 1994, that caused them to evacuate the house with the cats. They also say Sara and Kirk were together for about four years.

Rebecca Hammett

Facts: Kirk Hammett's ex-wife. They got married on December 3. 1987 and got divorced sometime before the end of the recording of The Black Album. Rebecca was once married to Eric Peterson of Testament.

Rumors: According to the Groupie Central message boards, Rebecca was arrested in Petaluma, California for "bad checks and possession" sometime in late June, 2001. The ensuing discussion said that Kirk and Rebecca's divorce was not finalized until late 1990 and Rebecca got a sports car and a sizable settlement in the divorce. According to that same discussion, Rebecca is "drugged out" and has two kids.

Francesca Hetfield

Facts: Married James Hetfield August 17, 1997. Gave birth to Cali Tee Hetfield on June 13, 1998 and Castor Virgil Hetfield at 3:23pm on May 18, 2000. In an interview with Ralph magazine, James tells us that Francesca worked security in Denver, but she wanted to travel, so she went on the road with Metallica as one of their wardrobe people (trust me when I say that the interview is worth reading).

Rumors: According to the Groupie Central message boards, she's from Argentina. According to the metallica.com message boards, she's about 30 or 31.

Rachel

Facts: Dating Jason Newsted.

Rumors: According to the Groupie Central message boards (sensing a pattern yet?), they're deeply in love, and may even be planning to get married. They also say, however, that he cheated on her during the Summer Sanitarium tour. They say Rachel is a Brazilian model and something of a bitch. The most recent rumors flying around everywhere say that Rachel and Jason have moved to a ranch in Montana, and she's sporting a rather large diamond. There's also a lot of speculation, but nobody claims to actually know, that Rachel had something to do with Jason leaving Metallica.

Elizabeth

Facts: One of Jason's ex-girlfriends.

Rumors: According to the Groupie Central message boards, Elizabeth is much younger than Jason, and he was not entirely faithful. However, they also say that she wasn't entirely faithful to him either.

Judy Newsted

Facts: Was once married to Jason Newsted. They were divorced sometime before the end of the recording sessions for The Black Album.

Rumors: According to the Groupie Central message boards, they got married in Illinois, and they both realize it was a mistake, and she was older than Jason. One site says she and Jason got married about a year after Kirk and Rebecca. According to the metallica.com message boards, Jason and Judy got married sometime in 1988.

Skylar Ulrich

Facts: Married Lars Ulrich on January 26, 1997. The next day, at the American Music Awards, Lars said, "I would like to thank this man, James Hetfield, for putting on his best suit and being my best man at my wedding last night." Skylar is a doctor. Her maiden name is Satenstein. She once dated Matt Damon, and is the inspiration for the character of Skylar in Good Will Hunting. Although there was once animosity between Matt and Lars--Matt once said he lost the love of his life, Skylar, to "a fucking rock star who's got $80 million and his own jet... a bad rock star too," and he once said he'd trade in Ben Affleck for Skylar--they now have only good, or at least polite, things to say about each other. Skylar also seems to be on good terms with Matt as she had good things to say about his family in a Time Europe article. According to an interview Lars gave, he and Skylar met in a bar in New York, and she didn't know who he was.

Rumors: A recent issue of SO WHAT! says that Skylar has become a doctor and moved to Marin, leading to speculations (on the message boards at the official site, no less) about the state of the Ulrichs' marriage, although many people interpret that to mean that they were once a bicoastal, commuter couple, but now reside full-time in Marin, which is, as someone there pointed out, a county. She did not seem particularly pleased with him at the VH1 My Music Awards, although some wonder if that may have something to do with Lars' attachment to Twiggy Ramirez of Marilyn Manson.

Debbie Ulrich

Facts: Was once married to Lars Ulrich. They were divorced sometime before the end of the recording sessions for The Black Album.

Rumors: No one seems to know anything about Debbie.

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