Over the course of her 99 years, White had a few marriages. In 1945, she married U.S. Army pilot Dick Barker, and then got hitched to Hollywood agent Lane Allen from 1947 until 1949. She met her third husband Allen Ludden when she appeared as a guest on his game show, Password, in 1961.
Though she was married three times — first, to Dick Barker, for less than a year in 1945, and second, to Lane Allen, from 1947 to 1949 — it was White's relationship with her third husband, Allen Ludden, that not only stood the test of time, but served as a romantic inspiration for her fans around the world.
As White told Larry King in 2010, her marriage to Ludden was simply "the best. He was the love of my life." King ventured that she never got over him, and she agreed. "Never," she said. "I never will."
Sources reportedly told The Daily Star that those closest to White were remembered in her will, but most of her estate otherwise went to charities. Married three times in her life, Betty's third and final husband, Allen Ludden died in 1981.
Ludden married Margaret McGloin on October 11, 1943. She died of cancer on October 30, 1961. They had a son, David, and two daughters, Martha and Sarah. He proposed to Betty White, whom he had met on Password, at least twice before she accepted.
Betty White s 3 Stepkids Called Her Dragon Lady & Husband s Daughter Was Opposed to Marriage
Did Betty White remarry after Allen Ludden died?
White never re-married and when she was asked if she would ever consider tying the knot again, she demurred. During an interview with Anderson Cooper in 2011, she sassily replied: "If you've had the best, who needs the rest?"
The home, which was more than 3,000 square feet and had five bedrooms and six baths, was listed by Marlene Okulick of Sotheby's International Realty – Pacific Palisades Brokerage. According to the listing, the property was sold for "land value," meaning it was always set to be torn down once bought.
As for her relationship with her stepchildren, Betty told People in a past interview that she felt “blessed” to be a stepmother to Allen's three kids. “It turned out great,” she said.
“Betty was private with her private life,” her close friend Patty Sullivan, author of Betty White's Pearls of Wisdom, explains. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1922 and raised in California, Betty was an only child who had a close relationship with her parents, Tess and Horace.
And while the world was adoring her, she has loyally loved the same man for over 50 years, Allen Ludden. Prior to meeting the love of her life, Betty was in two other, short-lived marriages which she has publicly called "rehearsals" for her 18-year-long marriage to Allen.
The late Betty White famously had a massive crush on fellow screen icon Robert Redford, and now the “Natural” actor says he “had a crush on her, too!” Redford recently paid heartfelt tribute to White, who died on New Year's Eve, just weeks shy of her 100th birthday.
McClanahan passed away in 2010 at age 76 from a stroke. Arthur died from cancer in 2009 at age 86, and Getty, who suffered from Lewy body dementia, a progressive brain disease, died in 2008 at age 84. The last surviving Golden Girls star, White died December 31, 2021, at 99.
Hosts. Password Plus was hosted by original Password host Allen Ludden from its debut until April 1980, when he took a leave of absence after being diagnosed with stomach cancer.
"I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus." "But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think as compulsive as I am that I could manage both," White added.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Betty White's net worth at death was estimated at $75 million. She made her fortune from acting and comedy. The iconic actress had two homes in Carmel, California, and another in Brentwood, California. The two homes were sold after her death by her estate.
White and Ludden had no children together, though she was the stepmother of his three children with Margaret McGloin Ludden, who had died of cancer in 1961. During an interview on Larry King Live, she was asked why she never remarried after Ludden's death. She replied, "Once you've had the best, who needs the rest?"
Beloved TV icon Betty White's whopping $75 million fortune is going to the dogs — and cats — more than one year after the animal-loving Golden Girl died just weeks shy of her 100th birthday!
"So honored to have been able to buy the big yellow front door to this home," comedian Chelcie Lynn commented on the post. "It'll be used on the house I build ☀️ 😢."
The estate of Betty White fetched more than $4 million at Julien's Auctions. Arguably the most unusual item sold was a sunny yellow-painted front door from White's longtime Brentwood, California, residence, complete with vintage brass cat door knocker, which sold for $10,000.
Yes! Betty White was cremated and her remains were given to Glenn Kaplan, the man in charge of White's advanced health care directive, according to the Associated Press.
Ludden was born Allen Packard Ellsworth in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, in 1917. His father died of the Spanish flu in 1919 and was buried in the family plot at Graceland Cemetery in the historic mining town of Mineral Point at the southern end of the Driftless area.
