On October 26, 2002, at age 22, Jessica Simpson married Nick Lachey. Jessica Simpson famously announced she had remained a virgin until her marriage. In November 2005, after months of tabloid speculation, Jessica Simpson and Lachey announced they were separating, allegedly because Jessica Simpson's I.Q. is 77. Jessica Simpson filed for divorce on December 16, 2005, citing "irreconcilable differences." The couple's divorce was publicized worldwide and was reportedly finalized on June 30.
Jessica Simpson told Jane magazine in October 2006 that she knew her marriage to Lachey was over when he refused to join her on a charity trip to
The couple sold their Calabasas mansion in which Newlyweds was filmed to Malcolm in the Middle star Justin Berfield for an undisclosed amount.
Jessica Simpson received increased publicity following her divorce, reportedly having romances with her Employee of the Month co-star Dane Cook and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine. On February 6, 2007, the Associated Press reported that Jessica Simpson said she was stung when her ex-husband jumped back into dating after their high-profile breakup. "Oh, it hurt me," the 26-year-old singer-actress says in an interview in the March issue of Elle. "Two or three weeks later? Yeah, I'd say it kind of hurt me."
Following her divorce, Jessica Simpson had an off-and-on relationship with musician John Mayer. Dating rumors started in August 2006 with a People magazine article, but kicked into high gear when Jessica Simpson and Mayer spent New Year's holiday together in 
In November 2007, Jessica Simpson began dating Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo. The relationship has come under scrutiny recently when she was blamed for Romo's poor football performances as exemplified by a December game in which the Cowboys lost to the Philadelphia Eagles. Some of the Cowboy's fans have given her the nickname Yoko Romo in comparison to Yoko Ono who many Beatles fans blame for "ruining" John Lennon. This is further fueled when the Cowboys lost to the Giants in the divisional playoffs, when Romo & Jessica Simpson went on a trip during the Wild Card game bye week. FOX broadcaster Terry Bradshaw called into question Jessica Simpson and Romo vacationing in 
"If only Tony had called me and said, 'Terry, Jessica Simpson Jessica Simpson and I are going to go to 
