If the affable stars of Sister Wives make polygamy seem appealing, Warren Jeffs makes it look like a nightmare. Last week a jury convicted the 55-year-old leader and self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and today Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison for aggravated sexual assault with a child and 20 years for sexual assault of a child. In Read more

If your husband unfriends you on Facebook, beware. He might be planning to marry another woman without letting you know or bothering for a divorce. Rhode Island man Richard Leon Barton Jr. got married in 2004, but hadn't seen his wife for a while after he got arrested and ended up in jail. She got suspicious when he unfriended her, so she started doing some snooping and found photos on Facebook Read more

I've always rooted for the Hendricksons on Big Love as proof that love, however unusual, can prevail. As proof polygamy doesn't have to be oppressive and misogynistic, but a choice no different than any other relationship off the mainstream path. However, after last night's episode, "A Seat at the Table," — where everyone fights to be heard — enlightened polygamy seems more impossible than Read more

The thread that holds Big Love together is its characters, and their way of life always teeters on falling apart. As the final season opened last night that was more true then ever (spoilers, ahoy!). The Henricksons are out of the plural marriage closet and are riding out the press storm by camping in the desert. When they finally return to town, Margene loses her QVC-like business (fired for Read more

Long before Big Love and Sister Wives, Americans had a fascination with polygamy. In 1944, LIFE magazine sent photographer John Florea to Salt Lake City, UT to capture what life was like for polygamist men, the sister wives, and the many children they produced. In the photo above, Rulon Clark Allred, a medical doctor, stands with his four wives, his mother, a few sisters-in-law, and many of his Read more

We're thrilled to present our favorite Double X story here on TrèsSugar. News broke this week that police in Lehi, Utah are looking into prosecuting the Brown family, stars of TLC's new reality show Sister Wives, for being bigamists. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Utah code "defines bigamy through cohabitation, not just through legal marriage contracts." As Sister Wives portrays the happily Read more