Raquel Welch Husband List: Star has been married four times

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Raquel Welch with husband four Richard Palmer and three Andre Weinfeld.

Actress Raquel Welch was married four times before her death at the age of 82, but none of the marriages lasted.

According to TMZ, Welch, who is survived by a daughter and a son, died of a “brief illness” on February 15, 2023. The illness was not disclosed.

Welch was not married at the time of her death. according to the sunHer husbands were James Welch, Patrick Curtis, Andre Weinfeld and Richard Palmer. All marriages ended in divorce, The Sun reported.

Here’s what you need to know:

1. Raquel Welch had two children with husband James Welch, her high school sweetheart

According to the San Diego Union TribuneJames Welch, her first husband, was Welch’s high school sweetheart.

They had two children together — their son Damon Welch and their daughter Tahnee Welch — when she was 21, the newspaper reported.

According to ABC NewsIn 1958, she married Welch while attending San Diego State College.

They split and Welch moved to Los Angeles with the kids to pursue her career, according to The Tribune, which reported that it only took her three years to become a star.

2. Patrick Curtis was Raquel Welch’s second husband

GettyUS actress Raquel Welch (C) and her newlywed husband US producer Patrick Curtis (2nd-L) leave Paris 8 City Hall on February 14, 1967 after getting married there.

According to WFMZ, Welch’s second husband, Patrick Curtis, was a producer. You can see a photo of him Here.

According to ABC News, Curtis was Welch’s agent. He “devised a plan to turn Welch into a sex symbol,” ABC News reported.

He advised her to keep the Welch surname to “avoid Latina actress typing, he advised Welch to keep her ex-husband’s surname,” ABC reported.

3. Andre Weinfeld was Raquel Welch’s third husband

GettyPhoto taken on July 5, 1981 in New York shows US actress Raquel Welch (R) and her husband, French director André Weinfeld, during their wedding in California.

In 2015, Weinfeld, a French filmmaker, spoke about his marriage to Welch wwith Closer Weekly.

“We had a very happy marriage,” Weinfeld told Closer, who reported that they married in 1980 and were dubbed “Beauty and the Beast” in the media. According to Closer, they were married 10 years before the divorce.

Weinfeld said a distance had grown between them, adding to Closer, “She moved back to La La Land and I stayed in New York [City] and Paris.” To Closer, he added, “She promised me she would sail into the sunset and I see she hasn’t. She married after me,” but joked that he was the “sex symbol” in marriage.

According to Closer, Weinfeld declared himself the “champion” because he was the longest married to Welch.

4. Richard Palmer, owner of pizza restaurants, was Raquel Welch’s last husband

GettyU.S. actress Raquel Welch (L) and her husband Richard Palmer arrive at the premiere of the new film ‘ Dragonfly’ February 18, 2002 in Los Angeles.

in 2003, The Globe and Mail reported Welch split from Palmer, her fourth and final husband, whom she married in 1999.

According to this news site, Palmer was the “owner of the Italian restaurant Mulberry Street in Beverly Hills and the pizza joint Richie’s Neighborhood.” The couple said in a statement that “no third party was involved,” the Globe and Mail reported.

The Tampa Bay Times reports that Welch and Palmer married “in a small, private ceremony at their home in Beverly Hills” in California after dating for two years.

According to the New York PostPalmer and Welch “met at a party in 1996.”

“My wife is a living legend,” Palmer told the Post. “I get great spots in the fights. you go where you want It is great.”

5. Raquel Welch said she was happy to be alone, declaring “I’m too committed to my ways”

GettyRaquel Welch has died.

According to The Sun, she told Piers Morgan: “I’m too stuck in my ways. I like what I do, I really enjoy being myself and I make very good money doing it and am happy. I don’t have to have a man.” The Sun reported that Welch said her fame and the attention she received contributed to the failure of their marriages.

According to her IMDb profileWelch was born Jo Raquel Tejada in Chicago, Illinois, and she exploded into sex symbol status with the poster that showed her in a prehistoric bikini for the 1966 film One Million Years BC. Over the years, she has acted in movies, TV movies and series, and in infomercials, according to IMDb.

Celebrity Net Worth Estimates Her net worth is around $40 million.

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