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Barbara Walters’ profession as a tv icon spanned many years — and so did her love life.

Along with making headlines for her numerous contributions to TV and breaking obstacles for ladies all over the place, the View creator — who died in December 2022 at age 93 — was additionally recognized for her three marriages and lively relationship life.

Walters kicked off her profession within the Fifties, a decade throughout which she additionally wed for the primary time, marrying Robert Henry Katz in 1955 (and divorcing him two years later). As she labored her manner by way of the tv journalism rankings, the 20/20 alum tied the knot with theater producer Lee Guber, whom she was married to from 1963 to 1975. In 1968, the couple adopted their daughter, Jacqueline. (Walters additionally credited good friend — and later beau — Roy Cohn with serving to the pair with Jackie’s adoption.)

Six years after divorcing Katz, the Boston native exchanged vows together with her third husband, Lorimar producer Merv Adelson. Although the pair’s first union solely lasted from 1981 to 1984, they gave their marriage a second attempt in 1986. Their relationship was not meant to be, nonetheless, and the 2 cut up for good in 1992.

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Along with her three marriages, Walters had an notorious two-year affair with then-Senator Edward Brooke within the ‘70s, a scandal that she later confessed to in her 2008 memoir, Audition. Their romance not solely made headlines for its scandalous nature, but in addition as a result of they had been concerned in an interracial affair throughout a very troublesome time for race relations in America, Walters wrote in her guide.

“I had a daughter to consider and a community that may be lower than thrilled to see me concerned in any form of scandal. None of that appeared to matter to me,” the late TV anchor penned in her memoir, revealing that the 2 finally ended their romance as a result of it could have ruined their respective careers.

Walters went on thus far many extra distinguished males in Washington, together with former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan and former Senator John Warner, who was certainly one of Elizabeth Taylor’s ex-husbands.

One A-lister Walters regretted by no means relationship, nonetheless, was Clint Eastwood. She interviewed the Escape From Alcatraz actor in 1982, throughout which “he was very flirtatious, and I used to be very taken [with him],” she recalled in a 2008 interview with Jimmy Fallon. “He requested me if I needed to have dinner, and I mentioned, ‘No, I’ve to work.’ You recognize, I do not combine enterprise with pleasure.” Although Walters later bumped into the Soiled Harry star on the pink carpet, she had missed her probability, she advised Fallon. “I may’ve been Mrs. Clint Eastwood!” she bemoaned on the time.

Maintain scrolling for Walters’ in depth relationship historical past by way of the years:

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Robert Henry Katz

Katz was Walters’ first husband; the 2 tied the knot in 1955 earlier than divorcing two years later.

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Roy Cohn

Although Cohn claimed he proposed to Walters the night time earlier than she married her second husband, Guber, in 1963, the 20/20 alum denied the story. The 2 remained lifelong associates, nonetheless, and dated briefly within the ‘90s.

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Lee Guber

The tv icon was married to Guber from 1963 to 1976. After Walters suffered three miscarriages, the 2 adopted daughter Jacqueline in 1968. Years after her troubled childhood, Jacqueline — and Walters — opened up in regards to the difficulties she confronted as a child, together with one incident the place she ran away from dwelling as a teen.

“I used to be so busy with a profession,” Walters later acknowledged in her TV particular, Barbara Walters: Her Story. “It’s the age-old drawback. And, , in your deathbed, are you going to say, ‘I want I spent extra time within the workplace?’ No. You’ll say, ‘I want I spent extra time with my household,’ and I do really feel that manner. I want I had spent extra time with my Jackie.”

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Edward Brooke

Walters infamously had an affair with the then-senator within the ‘70s, she wrote in Audition. The tryst practically value each Walters and Brooke their careers, she later revealed in an interview whereas selling the guide. A good friend referred to as the TV pioneer to inform her, “’That is going to return out. That is going to damage your profession,'” she recalled, “‘That is going to damage him. You have to break this off.'”

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Merv Adelson

Walters wed — and divorced — her third husband twice within the ‘80s. The pair had been first married from 1981 to 1984, and tried one other shot at marriage from 1986 to 1992. Neither union lasted.

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Alan Greenspan

The View alum dated the previous Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Although her relationship with Greenspan overlapped together with her romance with Alan Greenberg, the 2 stayed on good phrases. She later attended Greenspan’s 1997 wedding ceremony to MSNBC icon Andrea Mitchell.

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Alan Greenberg

Walters revealed in her 2008 memoir that she dated Greenberg whereas concurrently relationship Greenspan. The boys’s names had been so related, she wrote, that her housekeeper had hassle retaining observe.

“Once they gave me the message, I may solely ask, which one talked louder?” she penned within the guide. “Alan Greenberg … talked in a standard tone of voice. Alan Greenspan was very soft-spoken. He nearly whispered. And that’s how I’d know whether or not it was Greenspan or Greenberg.”

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John Warner

The journalist dated Warner, certainly one of Elizabeth Taylor’s eight husbands, within the late ‘90s, even teasing their relationship with the previous senator on The View in 1999. The 2 later cut up. Warner died in 2021.