Allison Williams & Ricky Van Veen

On the surface, Allison Williams’ relationship with entrepreneur Ricky Van Veen seemed to be fine. They first met in 2011, when Williams was still filming HBO’s Girls, playing the deceptively polished character Marnie Michaels. Van Veen had been the CEO of Notional, a production company spun off from his famous site CollegeHumor, for two years. In 2014, he proposed to Williams, and they married the following year.

The brilliant businessman and radiant actress seemed to be the perfect model All-American pair for a Ralph Lauren advertisement. However, there was an evidently defective structure under the polished exterior. The pair seemed to be growing apart throughout 2018 as Allison Williams was busy with her Netflix roles and Ricky Van Veen was busy with work for Facebook and his production company. The couple hired lawyers to declare their split in June 2019. It brought an end to an eight-year relationship, just months before the couple’s fourth wedding anniversary.