Personal Life
Taupin has been married four times and divorced three: Maxine Feibelman (1971–76); Toni Lynn Russo (1979–91), sister of actress Rene Russo; Stephanie Haymes (1993–98), daughter of entertainers Dick Haymes and Fran Jeffries; Heather Lynn Hodgins Kidd (March 2004 – present), with whom he has two daughters, Charley Indiana and Georgey Devon.
Taupin has lived his dream of being a "Brown Dirt Cowboy". He moved to Southern California from England in the mid-1970s; since the 1980s, he has been living on a ranch north of Los Angeles near Santa Ynez, California. He co-owned a restaurant in downtown Los Angeles called "Cicada" with then-wife Stephanie Haymes. He co-owned a PBR bucking bull named Little Yellow Jacket, which was recently retired as an unprecedented three-time world champion.
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