Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland were supposed to get married on June 14, 1991. The ceremony was planned for the 20th Century Fox lot, and just days earlier, newspapers were still writing about the wedding as if it were a certainty. Then, on June 11, Roberts’ publicist announced that the ceremony had been postponed by “mutual agreement.”
It was an extraordinary ending to one of Hollywood’s most closely watched romances. But what happened next transformed a broken engagement into one of the biggest celebrity stories of the early 1990s.