A Brief History of Cougars
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By 2009, celebrity cougars were omnipresent. If three makes a trend, then Madonna's love affair with 23-year-old Jesus Luz and Mariah Carey's marriage to 29-year-old Nick Cannon made the cougar movement official.
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