Kevin Costner’s marriage to second wife Christine Baumgartner is coming to an end after 18 years and three children.
Baumgartner, 49, cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the shock split, which reportedly “blindsided” the Yellowstone star, 68.
And in the aftermath of his latest failed union, DailyMail.com delves deep into the actor’s colorful love life.
And in the wake of his latest failed union with wallet designer Christine Baumgartner, DailyMail.com delves deep into Kevin Costner’s colorful love life; seen in 2022
First wife Cindy Silva
Costner pictured with his first wife Cindy Silva in 1991, they filed for divorce three years later and ended their 16-year marriage
In November 1994, Costner’s then-wife, Cindy Silva, filed for divorce after 16 years of marriage.
“We have resolved all issues related to our children and financial matters amicably and a full marriage settlement has been reached. We ask for the dignity to go through this more painful part of our lives in private,” the couple said in a 1994 statement.
Costner and Silva met when they were both students at California State University – Fullerton.
They would have three children together.
The couple broke up amid multiple reports that Costner was having an affair with a celebrated hula dancer named Michele Amaral while he was filming his multi-million dollar flop Waterworld in Hawaii.
In the end, Silva received about $80 million in the divorce settlement.
In a 1995 interview, the star of The Bodyguard took responsibility for his role in the demise of his marriage, but did not go into details.
“A series of events conspired to happen simultaneously. I know it hurt some people that I had failed in my marriage. And the marriage was my own failure,” he said.
Costner said in a 1995 interview with Parade Magazine that he never even spoke to Amaral on the phone.
He also listed the other women he was supposedly linked to, including Playboy model Angie Everheart and the daughter of casino mogul Steve Wynn.
“It was hard for Cindy and our kids. It didn’t help matters. All it did was hurt. The breakdown of my marriage was the hardest of all for me,” said the Dances With Wolves star.
Costner continued his love for his first wife: “You can put this on the record.” Through all the pain, Cindy has been what I always thought she was a real lady. I still have love for Cindy.’
Silva supported Costner when he was a struggling actor, taking on odd jobs including performing as Snow White at Disneyland.
Short-lived affair Bridget Rooney
Shortly after his split from Silva, Costner had a son, Liam, with Pittsburgh Steelers heiress Bridget Rooney.
Less than two years after his split from Silva, Costner had a son, Liam, with Bridget Rooney.
She is an heiress to the Pittsburgh Steelers and the aunt of actresses Rooney and Kate Mara.
In 1996, Rooney insisted she was “110% sure who the father” of her child was.
But Rooney still insisted on a paternity test to prove paternity, according to a 2002 PEOPLE article.
That months-long affair is rumored to have cost the actor $7 million.
Liam is now 27 years old.
‘Mistress’ Michele Amaral
In 1994, it was widely reported that Kevin Costner had had an affair with hula dancer Michele Amaral during the filming of Waterworld
Costner reportedly had an affair with a celebrated hula dancer named Michele Amaral while filming his multi-million dollar flop Waterworld in Hawaii.
Amaral was also married and a mother of two when she met Costner.
A report at the time in the New York Daily News said the pair met at the Mauna Lani hotel and soon after, Amaral was “spotted crawling out of his $4,500-a-day mansion.”
According to an article in Departures Magazine, Amaral has given hula around the world and is known as the island’s leading soloist.
The Daily News report said Silva was made aware of the affair by someone working on Waterworld and was fired.
The same article accused Costner of multiple infidelities during his marriage.
Costner strongly denied the allegations at the time, saying he was only interviewing Amaral for a job.
During an interview raising Amaral, Costner became furious.
“This woman did nothing wrong and yet she had to share the harsh light of celebrity with me. I’m ashamed and I don’t think there’s anything I can do to make her life better.”
“This woman has a name and to make her a thing is the worst of all. It’s wrong for her and her husband,” Costner said.
Second wife Christine Baumgartner
Costner and second wife Baumgartner first started dating in 1998, having met around 1996 while Costner was filming his movie Tin Cup. They married in 2004; seen in 2022
Costner and second wife Baumgartner first started dating in 1998, having met around 1996 while Costner was filming his movie Tin Cup.
The Bodyguard star said that the moment he first met her, he wasn’t ready to fall in love again.
Both are graduates of California State University – Fullerton. Baumgartner graduated with a degree in business administration.
They married in 2004 in Aspen, Colorado, where Costner has long maintained a 160-acre ranch known as The Dunbar. Rooms can be rented on site for as much as $36,000 per night.
The reason for the long courtship was because Costner wasn’t sure if he wanted more kids. The uncertainty even led them to break up for a period of time prior to their engagement.
“Fear kept me from marrying Christine. [She] wanted a child, but I was afraid I couldn’t be an effective father.’
“I woke up and thought, ‘Am I going to lose a beautiful woman who wants to be with me until my last breath because I’m afraid to say yes to a child?’ That was all it took. Sometimes you find out that the thing you fear the most will save your life,” he told Closer Weekly in 2018.
Costner told the Daily Telegraph in 2011 that the reason for his four-year hiatus from filmmaking was because of his new family.
In 2020, Costner spoke enthusiastically about how the couple’s relationship grew stronger during the Covid-19 pandemic. He told People, “Our partnership has really come into focus on what we do for each other and how we treat our family.”
The couple share three children, Grace, 12, Hayes, 14, and Cayden, 15, and both have filed for joint custody; seen in 2019
In 2022, Radar Online reported that Costner had been given an ultimatum by his wife. The report said she demanded he quit his hit show Yellowstone due to being away from home so much.
“The show is such a hit, producers want it to go on forever! [Baumgartner] wants a firm commitment that this is his last season – or maybe he should!” a source told the website.
And on Tuesday, May 2, it was revealed that Baumgartner had filed for divorce after 18 years of marriage.
A representative for the Yellowstone star asked for privacy as he said “circumstances beyond his control have occurred which have resulted in Mr. Costner having to participate in a dissolution of marriage” to Baumgartner.
The couple shares three children, ages 12, 14 and 15, and both have filed for joint custody.
The family’s primary residence was in Ventura, California, 30 miles south of Santa Barbara, where they also own an oceanfront mansion.
The couple has a prenuptial agreement, reports TMZ.