Marcella had many children by several husbands, and through her son Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus she became the grandmother of the empress Messalina.
[2] Her full siblings were older sister Claudia Marcella Major and her only surviving brother Marcus Claudius Marcellus.
[2] Eva Bayer-Niemeier proposed that the Lucius Aemilius Paullus who died in 14 may have been another son of Lepidus and Marcella, but J. Scheid and Ronald Syme thinks that this man was identical with the Lucius Aemilius Paullus who was consul in 1 AD,[4] but this identification is not universally agreed upon.
[6] There has been some speculation among historians such as George Patrick Goold[7] that her daughter Claudia Pulchra might have actually been the child of Publius Claudius Pulcher (the son of Clodius) from an earlier marriage, but others such as Syme have rejected this proposal.
[8] Syme does on the other hand agree that Paullus (nor Appianus) likely wasn't Marcella's first husband,[9] as the marriage is recorded rather late, he instead proposed a marriage to a son of Lucius Marcius Philippus[b] who may have died or been repudiated before he was old enough to be consul or to Marcus Appuleius, Marcella's maternal half-cousin who is assumed to have died some time after his consulship in 20 BC.