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May 25, 2023 · Mary Tyler Moore was married three times. She had one child with her first husband, Richard Meeker. Mary was married to her third husband, Robert Levine, when she died in 2017 at 80 years old.
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- She Married Right After Graduating High School. Mary Tyler Moore married for the first time very soon after graduating from Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles, California.
- They Were Next Door Neighbors. Mary Tyler Moore described Richard Meeker in her book as a “boy next door,” and she’s being quite literal when she says that.
- They Had a Son, Richard Meeker Jr., Who Died in 1980. The year after Richard and Mary were married, they had a baby boy. Richard Meeker Jr. was born on July 3rd, 1956.
- They Divorced in 1961. Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Carleton Meeker divorced in 1961, six years after their wedding. In a 1979 interview with Barbara Walters, Moore said that she rejects the idea that her marriage failed just because it ended in divorce.
May 26, 2023 · Moore was married three times. She married Richard Meeker in 1955, and they had a son, Richard, who was born the following year.
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- She Gave Birth to Him When She Was 18. Mary Tyler Moore married her first husband, Richard Carleton Meeker, in 1955 when she was 18 years old. Meeker was 28 at the time.
- He Died in 1980 of an Accidental Gunshot Wound. Richard Meeker died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on October 14th, 1980. At the time, there were some false reports that Meeker had committed suicide; in reality, his death was accidental.
- Moore Later Said She Regretted Being So Busy When Her Son Was Growing Up. When Richard Jr. was young, Moore was working on both The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and in her book Growing Up Again, she says that she wishes she had been around more.
- He Was Working at CBS at the Time of His Death. In addition to being a student, Meeker was working as a messenger for CBS when he died. This is the television network that aired The Mary Tyler Moore Show from 1970 through 1977, and it was also home to The Dick Van Dyke Show.
At age 18 in 1955, Moore married her next-door neighbor, 28-year-old cranberry juice salesman Richard Meeker, [75] and within six weeks she was pregnant with her only child, Richard Carleton Meeker Jr., born on July 3, 1956. [76]
Jan 25, 2017 · Moore, the girl "who could turn the world on with her smile,"was first married at age 18 to producer Richard Meeker. The couple walked down the aisle in 1955 and quickly started a family,...
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Jan 25, 2017 · Moore gave birth to Richie just one year into her first marriage with Meeker at the age of 18. By the time he was 3, she had steady work on TV. When Richie was 6, Moore and Meeker divorced.
