Marie Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress, and TV host. Based on her chart history on Billboard’s Hot 100 pop singles chart, Warwick is one of the 40 artists who had the most hits in the U.S. between 1955 and 1999.
The 82-year-old Grammy winner is now on her “One Last Time” tour, which includes visits to Hawaii and Vancouver. She has more than half a million Twitter followers and has made guest appearances on “Saturday Night Live.” She plans to retire and then move to Brazil.
Warwick’s next project is already on the screen. In the documentary “Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over,” which premieres on CNN on January 1 and starts streaming on HBO Max after that, she talks about her life and her 60-year music career with well-known people like Bill Clinton, Stevie Wonder, and Alicia Keys.
Now moving toward her personal life, she has been married twice in the past, but both times it was to the same man, William Elliott. Read on to know everything about her husband and why she got married twice to the same person.
Dionne Warwick wed actor and drummer William David Elliott in 1966, and the couple split up in May of the next year. Then they got back together and remarried in Milan, Italy, in August of 1967. . During several interviews, Warwick has said, “It was a matter of can’t do with, can’t do without, so I married him again.”
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Warwick gave birth to her first son, David Elliott, on January 18, 1969, in East Orange, New Jersey. Her second son, Damon Elliott, was born in 1973.
Damon Elliott, who is 47 years old, is a prominent music producer and singer. Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Pink, and Britney Spears are just some of the famous women he has collaborated with. Elliott has his very own album, titled “Shadow of Reality.”
Warwick filed for divorce in Los Angeles in December 1975 after they already parted ways on May 30, 1975. Warwick said that her success hurt her marriage. “I was the main breadwinner in the family, which is hard on the male ego,” she said. It was just too much for my husband to handle, so we decided it would be best to go our separate ways.”
Warwick’s husband, Elliott passed away on September 30, 1983. He was 49 years old.
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Dionne Warwick thinks back on her marriage and says, “I married him, wanted a divorce, and married again. Can’t live without it. It was simple. I had feelings for him. It’s always better the second time around. At the first wedding, I wore a suit, and at the second, I wore a dress. Both were beautiful. There were a lot of things that led to us breaking up again, which I’m not going to talk about.”
When asked if she would ever get married a third time, she said, “Never say never.”
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