Lex Barker - Personal Life

Personal Life

Barker was married five times:

• Constance Rhodes Thurlow (married 27 June 1942, divorced 1950). She was a daughter of Leon Rhodes Thurlow, a vice president of the Decorated Metal Manufacturing Company. They had one daughter, Lynn Thurlow Barker (born 11 April 1943, died 2010) and a son, Alexander "Zan" Crichlow Barker III (born 25 March 1947, died 2 October 2012). In 1952 Constance Barker married, as her second husband, John Lawrence Adams, a descendant of John Quincy Adams.
• Actress Arlene Dahl (married 1951, divorced 1952)
• Actress Lana Turner (married September 8, 1953, divorced July 22, 1957). According to a book by her daughter, Cheryl Crane, Turner ordered Barker out of their home one night at gunpoint after Cheryl, aged 13, accused him of molesting her over a long period of time. Divorce followed quickly, though no charges were filed, and the couple's 1957 divorce record does not allude to the allegation.
• Irene Labhardt (married 1957, died in 1962 of leukemia), a Swiss actress. They had one son, Christopher (born 1960), who became an actor and singer.
• María del Carmen "Tita" Rosario Soledad Cervera y Fernández de la Guerra (married 1965, divorced 1972, though divorce not deemed legally valid). Voted Miss Spain in 1962, Tita Barker later became the wife of movie producer Espartaco Santoni in 1975 (the marriage turned out to be bigamous) and later still, in 1985, the fifth and final wife of billionaire art collector Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza.