Jen Rivell
Jennifer Sarah Marin Rivell (born
June 5,
1973 in
Florence, Alabama,
United States) is an actress and former frequent guest on
MTV's
Viva La Bam and "junior" member of the
CKY Crew. Rivell played Glauren in
Bam Margera's film
Haggard: The Movie in
2003 and also played the role of Crystal in the film
Misdirected in
2004.
Jenn Rivell met
Bam Margera at the age of 15 at a skate park while Bam was 9, and entered into a relationship when she was 23 and he was 17. Rivell accepted Bam's marriage proposal when she turned 30 on
June 5,
2003. However, Rivell and Margera split in April of
2005 after 7 years. Jenn claims that Margera slept with
Jessica Simpson Bam has claimed that he has only met Simpson once and that he has never slept with her. Before the relationship with Bam, Rivell was married to Nate Mathesson. They had one child together. Her daughter, Gabrielle "Elle" Mathesson, was born on
September 20,
1995, and has appeared in CKY2K, CKY 3, and CKY 4.
Jenn has a younger brother named David.
On the
May 22,
2006 episode of
Radio Bam,
Bam Margera's weekly radio program on
Sirius Satellite Radio, it was alleged that Bam and Jennifer's breakup was very tumultuous, especially in the period immediately after. Bam accuses Jenn of charging purchases to his credit cards, trying to sell Bam's personal effects (such as Bam's
Blockbuster Video card) and a tell-all lunch about Margera with herself on
eBay [
1], and crashing the
Audi S4 he gave her. Bam had given the S4 to Rivell and transferred title to her. Margera alleged that Rivell totalled the car while driving drunk with her boyfriend and fled the scene of the accident. She then allegedly transferred the title back to him, put Bam's old license plate on the car, and told the police it was Bam's in order to place the blame on him. Bam's uncle,
Don Vito, also alleged that Jenn was receiving disability payments due to an addiction to
cocaine.[
2]
The
July 31,
2006 episode of
Radio Bam reveiled more information on the break-up between Bam and Jenn. Bam said that Jenn had trashed his video editing room and equipment, and that was the last straw that made him break up with Jenn. He had been thinking about breaking up with her before, and he had also had an affair with his current girlfriend and fiancé Missy.
*Rivell's favorite bands include
HIM,
Within Temptation, and
CKY. She has joined
Ville Valo (the lead singer of HIM) on stage many times in the past.
