Lana Del Rey and Jeremy Dufrene Marriage

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Overview

Lana Del Rey and Jeremy Dufrene Marriage refers to the marriage of American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey and Louisiana swamp and alligator tour guide Jeremy Dufrene in 2024. After their marriage was reported by TMZ, fans and internet users expressed shock, thinking that the couple was an odd pairing. In turn, many memes about the two surfaced, using photos of them together in which Dufrene appears older than Del Rey and is seen wearing camo. Many memes about Lana Del Rey's husband joked about alligators and crocodiles, using photos and videos of the animals.

Background

According to TMZ,^[1] Jeremy Dufrene works at Airboat Tours by Arthur in Des Allemands, Louisiana, where he works as a tour guide. He is 10 years older than Lana Del Rey.

The two seemingly first met in early 2019 when Lana Del Rey took a tour with Dufrene and posted pictures to social media. On March 22nd, 2019, Lana Del Rey posted photos to Facebook^[2]^[3] of herself on the swamp tour. In one photo (shown below), the two of them are together. It gained over 1,500 reactions in five years.

Also, according to TMZ,^[1] on March 21st, 2019, Dufrene posted a photo of himself with Del Ray to his private Instagram,^[4] gaining an unknown amount of likes (shown below).

On May 16th, 2024, Lana Del Rey posted a photo to her Instagram^[5] account @honeymoon in which she tagged @jeremy.dufrene, gaining over 2.1 million likes in four months.

Del Rey and Dufrene were first seen together romantically in a video posted by TikToker^[6] @chrislloydart on August 24th, 2024, in which they are seen holding hands at the Reading Festival. In a month, the video received roughly 1.2 million plays and 165,100 likes (shown below).

Soon after, on September 7th, the couple were photographed by paparazzi holding hands at an NYC event. On September 26th, 2024, TMZ reported that Lana Del Rey and Dufrene had obtained a marriage license.^[7] A day later, on September 28th, TMZ^[8] reported that the couple gotten married.

Online Reaction

In late August 2024, when the news of Lana Del Rey and Jeremy Dufrene's relationship originally dropped, viral posts about them surfaced across social media, such as a tweet from the X^[9] account @PopCrave on August 29th, which amassed over 145,000 likes in a month.

At the time, their relationship was just a rumor, and Lana Del Rey also seemingly tried to debunk the then-rumor in an Instagram comment section. X^[10] user @oceanblvdvinyl posted a screenshot of Del Rey's comments on August 31st, gaining over 22,000 likes in a month (shown below).

After the two were married a month later, viral memes and reactions to the couple surfaced en masse online. For instance, on September 27th, X^[11] user @willfulchaos tweeted a photo of Beyoncé with two alligators on leashes, writing, "lana del rey taking her husband’s alligators for a walk after the wedding," gaining over 68,000 likes in four days (shown below).

Also on September 27th, X^[12] user @lesbeyonsay tweeted a Trump supporters' profile pictures image, captioned, "lana del rey picking a husband," gaining over 130,000 likes in four days (shown below).

Similar memes and posts surfaced elsewhere on social media. For instance, on September 29th, 2024, TikToker^[13] @j.f.murray shared a dancing scene from the film Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, captioned, "Lana on her honeymoon," receiving over 2.9 million plays and 626,700 likes in two days (shown below).

Between August and September 2024, posts about the couple also spread on Reddit. For instance, on September 8th, 2024, Redditor^[14] IceKweenIcy shared a post to /r/popheadscirclejerk that made fun of a post on /r/lanadelrey in which a different Redditor said, "If you look closely, he doesn't look that bad. The smile on her face shows that he has many qualities that go beyond his appearance." IceKweenIcy joked that the user was doing mental gymnastics, receiving over 1,400 upvotes in three weeks (shown below).