Her final marriage was to Richard Palmer in 1999. 'She promised me she would sail into the sunset, and I can see that she hasn't. He revealed that they grew apart due to distance, because 'she moved back to La La Land, and I stayed in New York and Paris.' Welch walked down the aisle in 1980 to marry filmmaker Andre Weinfield, which ended up being her longest relationship after they remained married for 10 years.ĭuring their time together, French media insultingly dubbed the pair 'Beauty and the Beast', however Weinfeld told Closer Weekly in 2015 that the duo had a 'very happy marriage.' The two divorced in 1972, leading her to go on to remarry two more times in her search for love.

The two married in 1967, and he suggested she continued to use her ex's name rather than her maiden name of Tajeda so she didn't get typecast as a Latina actress.

She divorced Welch the year after she moved to LA in 1963 to pursue fame and fortune, where she met her next husband and business manager Patrick Curtis. Welch's life as a recluse came after a string of failed marriages, the first of which was to her high school sweetheart James Welch in 1959, with the couple sharing two children, Latanee 'Tahnee' and Damon Welch. 'The last thing she needs in her life right now is a man around the house who she has to cook and clean up after,' they added. The insider suggested that although she had many options, Welch felt she was better suited to living by herself. Welch shot to fame in the 1960s following back-to-back blockbuster roles in Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years BC.Īn iconic poster of her as a cavewoman wearing a deerskin bikini in the latter film made her an international sex symbol.īut despite her previous life of style, reports suggest she hardly ventured out in public in her final years, preferring to live alone in sunny LA.

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