J. K. Rowling (27) married Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes in 1992.
J.K. Rowling at the age of 27 married her first husband Jorge Arantes, a portuguese T.V. journalist. They first met in a bar and discovered that both of them shared interest in Jane Austen and got married on October 16th in the year 1992. Both of them even have a daughter named Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes but was later named as Jessica Milford after thier separation.
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