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Thelma Riley and Ozzy Osbourne – Inside Their Short-Lived Marriage

Thelma Riley and Ozzy Osbourne smiling together in a candid photo from the early years of their marriage

Before Ozzy Osbourne became the Prince of Darkness, the MTV reality star, or the heavy metal legend with a bat between his teeth, he was just a young man from Birmingham trying to find his way. In that early life—long before Sharon entered the picture—there was Thelma Riley, the woman who became his first wife. […]