Who Is Barbara Walters' Daughter, Jacqueline Danforth?

Barbara Walters was raised in a sort of transient lifestyle, moving between New York and Florida due to her father's career in founding nightclubs. She noted in her autobiography (via The New York Times) that her parents' marriage was a rather tumultuous one, though the pair stayed together for 60 years. Four years after graduating

Barbara Walters was raised in a sort of transient lifestyle, moving between New York and Florida due to her father's career in founding nightclubs. She noted in her autobiography (via The New York Times) that her parents' marriage was a rather tumultuous one, though the pair stayed together for 60 years. Four years after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 1951, Walters married her first husband, Robert Henry Katz. The marriage was short-lived, with the pair divorcing two years later, followed by an annulment in 1958. Walters declined to discuss this marriage publicly (per Beaver County Times).

In 1963, Walters married Lee Guber, and in 1968, the couple adopted an infant daughter they named Jacqueline Dena (per Us Weekly). According to The U.S. Sun, Jacqueline's adoption was kept secret from the public because Walters did not want her daughter's biological mother to know that she and her husband were the ones to adopt Jacqueline.

In the early years of Jacqueline's life, Walters' shot to fame and broke the glass ceiling for female journalists. In 1976, Walters and Lee Gruber divorced. Walters would marry Merv Adelson in 1981 and for a second time in 1986. However, after their final divorce in 1992, the two remained friends. The New York Times noted in Adelson's obituary that Walters said, "Merv was a kind and gentle man with a great sense of humor."

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