Robert Redford’s death at the age of 89 has sent shockwaves around the world, with the star said to have died ‘surrounded by his loved ones’
Actor and director Robert Redford’s death has shocked the world. The Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid star died aged 89 ‘surrounded by his loved ones’ and leaves behind a huge legacy.
Redford was at his home in Utah at the time and, so far, no cause of death has been shared. As well as acting in the classic film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Redford starred in the likes of The Sting, All the President’s Men, and Out of Africa.
He was also a director, producer and environmentalist. His acting career ended in 2018, when he announced his retirement.
Throughout the years, Redford was romantically linked to a number of women – and also had a highly publicised clash with Barbra Streisand.
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Redford had married twice in his career. Firstly, in 1958, the actor tied the knot with Lola Van Wagenen. The American film and TV producer was best known for The American Experience. The duo exchanged vows at her grandmother’s home.
They went on to have four children together, two boys and two girls. Sadly, their first son, Scott Anthony, died in 1959 at the age of just two and a half months. He suffered sudden infant death syndrome.
As well as his four kids, Redford also had seven grandchildren.
After divorcing in 1985, Redford was linked over the years to Sonia Braga, Lena Olin and Kathy O’Rear. In 2009, he married again, saying ‘I Do’ to longtime partner Sibylle Szaggars.
Their wedding took place in Hamburg. Despite Redford’s huge movie career, Szaggars admitted she never watched any of his films. In 2014, she made the confession, saying she watched 15 minutes of each of his films before they had dinner together.
It’s this that reportedly drew Redford to his second wife. He previously told People: “It was a wonderful beginning of a relationship, because it began as two human beings meeting each other and finding a connection as two human beings, rather than being coloured by success.”
The couple didn’t have any children together.
Elsewhere, while Streisand and Redford never dated, their fallout came as Redford is said to have been reluctant to work with her.
The duo starred alongside each other in 1973’s romantic drama The Way We Were. Director Sydney Pollack claimed Redford held reservations over Streisand’s apparent “controlling” reputation.
“Barbra had never worked with a really strong leading man,” Pollack previously said. “She has a tendency to take over a picture, just by the size of her talent and larger-than-life presence. It’s hard for a costar to stay in the same ring with her.”
Despite the initial tension, the movie went to be a huge success and the pair stayed friend for decades after.
Source: Mirror
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