THEY HAD MARRIED AFTER MEETING FOR ONLY SIX WEEKS, BETTE MIDLER AND MARTIN VON HASSELBERG ARE STILL TOGETHER, IN THEIR MARRIAGE OF 39 YEARS
Talented actress, Bette Midler and her husband, Martin von Haselberg, had met in 1984. Star actress was 35 at that time.
And after six weeks of dating they had married. They had eloped in Las Vegas, at the Starlight Chapel.
“My wedding was two people – my husband and me – and, of course, the Elvis impersonator that married us,” Bette said.
“He got all dressed up in this suit that I was like, ‘I’m not getting married to you in that suit!’ So, he had to change his suit and then we went to one of the little churches and we went to get the license. We had a tape of Nino Rota music…and we walked down the aisle”
The couple had one daughter, Sophie, who is 36 now and she is an actress as her mother, which she acted in the Wood Allen movie, Irrational Man.
In 2021, with her appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, she had stated, “Apparently, there was a photographer there,”
“When the Starlight Chapel closed its doors about five years ago, they sent us the pictures. We had never seen the pictures before.”
“We used to fight bitterly” Bette said in an interview with, Closer.
“We came to the conclusion that we wanted to raise a child. We never wanted to hurt that kid in any way. [So] we stayed together until it got better, and it did.”
“There was a conscious effort to create exactly the life we have,” added Haselberg.
“My husband is probably the greatest father who ever lived. He taught [Sophie] a foreign language. He taught her how to cook,” Bette said.
“He has looked after me for many, many years. He’s sacrificed a lot.”
“Listening is very hard. And compromise. Compromise is the hardest of all,”
“The blaming, I think, is the worst part…It’s because you don’t want to carry the burden yourself. You want to push it off on someone else. But honestly, you have to learn not to do that.”
Their daughter Sophia married with Harry J. N. Guinness, in 2020, while the COVID-19 pandemic was going on.
“It was so sweet. They had a great time,” Bette said about the wedding.
“They stayed up all night and they drank. They had a ball.”
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