Actress Ginnifer Goodwin’s Ketubah Drama
Sometimes famous people lose their marriage contracts on their wedding day


Ginnifer Goodwin, the lovable actress from Big Love who currently stars on Once Upon a Time, recently got married to Josh Dallas, her co-star on the ABC show. Her childhood rabbi performed the ceremony, she explained on Jimmy Kimmel Live, but there was one pretty major day-of crisis. The morning of the wedding, Goodwin’s wedding planner’s car was broken into, and one of the items taken was the couple’s ketubah.
That’s when Kimmel chimes in, asking incredulously, “Who would steal this?”
She got it back in time, thanks to two Jewish people who randomly found the ketubah on the street in Hollywood, realized what it was—and when the wedding was—and contacted her people.
Stephanie Butnick is the founder of GOLDA, a Jewish lifestyle newsletter. She hosted the Tablet podcast Unorthodox, co-authored The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: From Abraham to Zabar’s and Everything in Between, and worked as a writer and editor at Tablet.