 On November 22 , 1965 , Dylan secretly married 25 @-@ year @-@ old former model Sara Lownds . Some of Dylan 's friends , including Ramblin ' Jack Elliott , say that , immediately after the event , Dylan denied he was married . Journalist <unk> <unk> made the news public in the New York Post in February 1966 with the headline " <unk> ! Bob Dylan is wed . " 
