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Hurt’s Ex-Girlfriend Loses: New York’s highest court today upheld a decision that William Hurt did not have a common-law marriage with a woman who subsequently bore his son. The state Court of Appeals upheld two lower court decisions by refusing to hear an appeal from Sandra Jennings, a former ballet dancer and the mother of Alexander Devon Hurt. Jennings lived with the actor from 1981 to 1984. She had sought to prove a marriage existed so she could sue for divorce and a share of Hurt’s assets, estimated in 1989 at $10 million. Trial testimony revealed Hurt paid Jennings $64,000 annually and let her live in an apartment he owns in Manhattan.