Jane Fonda's Love Journey: Marriages, Romances, & a Surprise 20-Year-Old Twist (2024)

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Who was Jane Fonda's favorite husband? ›

Despite the breakups, Fonda has remained open about her past loves, particularly expressing admiration for Ted Turner as her favorite ex-husband and acknowledging Richard Perry as her best lover.

Mary Luana Williams (born October 13, 1967) is an American social activist and author who wrote The Lost Daughter: A Memoir about her life. The memoir details being adopted by Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden in her adolescence, as well as growing up as a daughter of Black Panthers before Fonda adopted her.

Henry, best known for his roles in 1940's The Grapes of Wrath and 1957's 12 Angry Men, was described by PEOPLE in 1975 as "respected for his talent but widely disliked for his abrasive egotism and vanity," leading to sometimes difficult relationships with his children, Jane and her brother Peter Fonda.

Vanessa Vadim is the first and only daughter of Jane and her first husband, French filmmaker Roger Vadim. She was born in September 1968. She followed in her parents' footsteps and is an awarded filmmaker who made her directing debut in 2002 for the short documentary The Quilts of Gee's Bend.

LOS ANGELES — Jane Fonda and record producer Richard Perry have split up after eight years together. Seventy-four-year-old Perry tells E! News their romance has “temporarily been put on the back burner” because of Fonda's rededication to activism.

Has Jane Fonda ever admitted that she made mistakes over the Vietnam conflict? She has admitted that posing on the North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun was a major error and has apologized for doing so. She does not apologize for going to North Vietnam. (as did a number of other anti-war activists).

The words Fonda used in his will concerning his decision not to leave any of his estate to his children Peter and Jane were: “My decision is not in any sense a measure of my deep affection for them.” He then noted that both children were financially independent, but his third child and current wife “are dependent on me ...

She reduced acting because of her political activism providing a new focus in her life. Her return to acting in a series of 'issue-driven' films reflected this new focus. Jane Fonda did an extraordinary job with her part.

He then played opposite Barbara Stanwyck in Preston Sturges's The Lady Eve (1941), and again teamed with Tierney in the successful screwball comedy Rings on Her Fingers (1942). Stanwyck was one of Fonda's favorite co-stars, and they appeared in three films together.

Loyal Friend

Although she's still good friends with ex-husband and avid conservationist Ted Turner, it is Fonda's longtime friendship with Grace & Frankie co-star Lily Tomlin that has become the stuff of squad goals.

How old was Jane Fonda when she first got married? ›

In August 1965, Fonda married her first husband, prominent French film director Roger Vadim, per the Washington Post. They tied the knot in a small ceremony at the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. At the time, Fonda was 28; Vadim was 10 years her senior and known for being a womanizer (Fonda was actually his third wife).

When Fonda divorced her third husband, Ted Turner, in 2001, she got a significant settlement from the media mogul: Differing reports claim that she pocketed anywhere between $40 million and $100 million in the split in the form of cash and stocks.