Popularly known as Jackie, Jacqueline Dena Guber rose to fame by rubbing shoulders with the fame of her mother, Barbara Walters, an American television journalist and television personality, and her father, an American theater impresario, Lee Guber. Over the years, Jaqueline has managed to live her life away from media pressure, despite almost always being a troubled kid.
Today, she remains under the media radar, but this time around, it’s mostly for the many controversies she wrestles with.
Jacqueline Dena Guber – Biography, Age
It was on June 14, 1968 that Jacqueline Dena Guber was born in the United States. Shortly after her birth, Jaqueline was adopted by Barbara Walters and her then-husband, Lee Guber.
Although Barbara had no other children by her, Lee had already had two children at the time, born to his first wife, Edna Shanis. When Jackie was eight, her parents divorced and so she stayed with her mother who would marry Merv Adelson in 1981, but the marriage would end in 1984. She married again in 1986, only to have it end again. in 1992.
From an early age, Jacqueline Dena Guber began to have so many personal problems that at the age of fifteen she was already a fan of drugs and partying. In 1984, at the age of 15, Jackie, who describes herself as a child on the run, left home with the hope of solving her problems. For up to a month, her mother couldn’t find her and couldn’t bring herself to contact the police because she was trying to avoid making things worse for her daughter.
When she was finally contacted by a man who had taken an elevator, she sent a 6-foot-7 former Green Beret to pick her up. But instead of taking her home, she was taken to an intervention program in Idaho that she says saved her life. Three years later, she graduated from high school. Much later, she started a program she labeled “New Horizons” to help rescue troubled teenage girls like her.
Facts About Barbara Walters Daughter
- 1. Its adoption
Prior to Jaqueline’s adoption, her mother had suffered from several miscarriages which she hid from the public. She was first married to Robert Henry Katz in 1955, but in 1957 the union was annulled. Five years into her second marriage, she was still struggling to give birth and decided to adopt a daughter whom she named Jacqueline after her own sister.
- 2. Name change
When she was 18, Jacqueline Dena Guber changed her name to her father’s name instead of her mother’s because her mother was more famous and she didn’t want to identify with fame. Shortly before the name change, her father, Lee Guber, had died of cancer.
Although changing her name has helped her hide her identity a bit, her mother’s shadow is too big for Jacqueline to escape.
- 3. Marriage and Husband
Jacqueline Dena Guber was once married in 1995 to a man known as Scott Pontius. The wedding that took place in Washington State was very private. 10 years later, the marriage self-destructed and the two parties went their separate ways.
Interestingly, Jackie and Pontius would later merge their lines with those of the law as she would be arrested for an IUD arrest in 2013 and she also confronted and verbally assaulted police officers under arrest. Years before, her ex-husband had been arrested for assaulting his girlfriend.
Mark Danforth is another person linked to her as a husband, although there is no timeline available for their relationship.
- 4. Net worth
The family she came from is not only famous, but also wealthy. That said, his net worth has been estimated at $1 million. On the other hand, his mother has a net worth of between $150-170 million.
According to Walters who always worked hard to have everything she has today, she grew up in a very wealthy family that provided her with all the luxuries she needed until everything was lost. Because of this, she always felt that she would soon lose her fortune and therefore always worked very hard to keep it.
Jackie Danforth, as she is also known, is a very tall woman. At the age of 12, she was already 6 feet tall and it was something difficult to manage growing up because, as a little girl, she was out of place. Or so she felt. Her current height is not known today, but she is slightly over 6ft which keeps her well above her mother, who is only 5ft 5in.
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