When the multi-married actor Henry Fonda died in 1982, he left his estate to his fifth wife, to whom he was married at the time of his death, and one child he had adopted with his third wife.
His daughter Jane rejected her father's friendships with Republican actors such as John Wayne and James Stewart. Their relationship became extremely strained as Jane Fonda became a left-wing activist. Jane Fonda reported feeling detached from her father, especially during her early acting days.
Her father, an alcoholic, drowned at age 51 when he stumbled into a swimming pool at a sanitarium, according to Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman by Patricia Bosworth. Ann Clare Brokaw, her half-sister by her birth father, died in an auto accident at age 19.
If we're being honest, Fonda is a priceless national treasure. But if it's numbers you want, Jane Fonda's net worth is estimated to be $200 million. "I wake up every morning, grateful that I'm where I am and that I have the resources that I do," she told Parade.com in 2021.
No formal adoption papers were drawn up, and on Williams's mother's blessing, she lived with Fonda for the rest of her adolescence and into young adulthood.
Despite the breakups, Fonda has remained open about her past loves, particularly expressing admiration for Ted Turner as her favorite ex-husband and acknowledging Richard Perry as her best lover.
Fonda's oldest child Vanessa Vadim, who was born in 1968, is her only child with her first husband, the late French filmmaker Roger Vadim. Fonda welcomed her second child Troy Garity in 1973 with her then-husband Tom Hayden, a famed anti-war activist who died in 2016.
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Things for their family changed in 1950 when Frances, who was struggling with her mental health, took her own life by slitting her throat while at a nearby mental institution. A then-10-year-old Peter and 12-year-old Jane were told by Henry that their mother had suffered a heart attack while in the hospital.
Fonda met his second wife, socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, on the set of the film Wings of the Morning in England in 1936. Their daughter Jane was born in 1937 and son Peter in 1940.
Although Jane and Peter Fonda, the actor's children by his second wife, Frances Brokaw, received nothing in the will filed Friday in Superior Court, the document said, ''My decision is not in any sense a measure of my deep affection for them.
She wed Elfman in November 2003 and quickly withdrew from the public eye in an effort to focus on her family. Their son was born in 2005. Prior to her retirement, Bridget was twice nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
Afdera Franchetti (born 8 July 1931) is an Italian baroness, descended from an old Jewish family of Venice which intermarried with the Rothschild family and who eventually converted to Roman Catholicism. Franchetti is known for being the fourth wife of American actor Henry Fonda.
Today, Vanessa is a filmmaker who has directed projects like Jane Fonda in Five Acts. She is still an activist, standing with Fonda and many others at the U.S. Capitol in 2019 for the "Fire Drill Fridays" climate protests.
Although the couple divorced in 2001, Fonda continues to live in Atlanta and to raise money for the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (G-CAPP), an organization that she founded in 1995 with a grant from the Turner Foundation.
According to her father, the surname Fonda came from an Italian ancestor who immigrated to the Netherlands in the 1500s. There, he intermarried; the resultant family began to use Dutch given names, with Jane's first Fonda ancestor reaching New York in 1650. Fonda also has English, French, and Scottish ancestry.
Jane Fonda was married three times. Her ex-husbands are Roger Vadim (married from 1968 until 1973), Tom Hayden (married from 1973 until 1990) and Ted Turner (married from 1991 until 2001). Since her third divorce in 2001, Fonda has not walked down the aisle again.
He soon joined the University Players Guild, a small summer-stock theatre troupe in Falmouth, Massachusetts, where he met, among others, Joshua Logan, Jimmy Stewart, and Margaret Sullavan, who became the first of his five wives. Fonda made his Broadway debut in 1929, with a small part in The Game of Love and Death.
Jane Seymour Fonda was born in New York, New York, on December 21, 1937 to actor Henry Fonda (1905-1982) and socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw (1908-1950). She has one brother, Peter Fonda (1940- ).
Jane Fonda's Adopted Daughter Reconnects with Her Birth Family. At 14, Mary Williams moved from the poverty-scathed streets of East Oakland to Jane Fonda's hacienda in Santa Monica. Decades later, Williams returns home to find out if blood really is thicker than water.
Her visit lasted two weeks and included visits to sites that had been bombed by the United States, a meeting with prisoners of war, and a visit to a military instillation. In the United States, Fonda's visit angered Americans who saw it as an act of treason.
Contrary to popular belief, Fonda did approve of his daughter Jane's anti-war activism during Vietnam and at AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda (1978) told her critics to "shut up", because "she's perfect".
