Jon Peters
John H. Peters (born June 2, 1945) is an American film producer and former hairdresser.
This article is about the film producer. For the baseball pitcher, see Jon Peters (pitcher). For other people with similar names, see John Peters (disambiguation).
Jon Peters
1976–present
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Henrietta Zampitella(m. 1962; div. 1966)
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Christine Forsyth(m. 1987; div. 1993)
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Mindy Williamson(m. 2001; div. 2004)
Barbra Streisand (1973–1982)
4, including Caleigh
Early life[edit]
Peters was born on June 2, 1945, in Van Nuys, California.[1] Peters is of Cherokee (father) and Italian (mother) descent.[2] While growing up in a rough neighborhood, Peters' father died when he was eight years old and his mother later remarried; Peters was later expelled from school and sent to reform school for a year when he was 12.[2]
Personal life[edit]
Peters married four times, each ending in divorce. The marriage certificate on his fifth marriage was never filed.[22] Several of his marriages and relationships overlapped each other. Peters has four children from his marriages, the older three of whom are in the entertainment industry.[23][24][25]
Peters' first marriage was to Henrietta Zampitella when he was 16. The couple were married from April 1962 to November 1966.[26][27]
In May 1967,[28] the year following his first divorce, Peters married actress Lesley Ann Warren, with whom he had his son Christopher. The couple divorced in 1975[29] after a two-year separation.[30]
Barbra Streisand and Peters had a high-profile personal and business relationship from 1973 to 1982.[30][31] Streisand went on to become godmother to his two daughters with Christine Forsyth.[32][33]
Peters married his third wife, producer Christine Forsyth, in June 1987.[34] Sometime after the couple's separation two months later, Christine Forsyth adopted[34] daughters Skye and Caleigh Peters.[25][35][24] After this severance, Peters allowed Forsyth and the girls to continue living in his Bel-Air property. Peters did not file for divorce until 1993 and later filed a request for her to leave the Bel-Air estate in 2006.[34]
In 1994, Peters met Mindy Williamson, a breeder of Arabian horses,[36][37][38] who was to become his fourth wife in 2001. After their 2004 divorce, they reunited from 2006 to 2009.[39] Together, they have daughter Kendyl Peters.[3]
The marriage certificate on his fifth marriage, to actress and model Pamela Anderson on January 20, 2020, was not filed, with the couple separating after 12 days.[40][41][42] Anderson said she was "never legally married" to Peters.[43][22][44]
Peters reportedly became engaged to actress Julia Bernheim in February 2020.[45] The announcement was made three weeks after his split from Pamela Anderson.[45]
In popular culture[edit]
It has been said, partly by Peters himself, that he was the inspiration for Warren Beatty's character in the Hal Ashby film Shampoo.[46][47]
Peters is portrayed by Bradley Cooper in the 2021 Paul Thomas Anderson film, Licorice Pizza.[48]