Personal Life
Icahn has been married twice.
In 1979, he married Liba Trejbal, an ethnic Czech ballerina from the former Czechoslovakia. They separated in 1993 and divorced in 1999 after years of litigation. Liba had sought to invalidate a prenuptial agreement she had signed prior to their marriage claiming duress as she was pregnant at the time. Liba originally fought Icahn's offer of roughly $1.5 million a year because he was worth billions at the time and eventually settled for an undisclosed amount. They have two children, Brett (b. 1979) and Michelle (b. 1982)
In 1999, he married his longtime assistant and former broker, Gail Golden. She has two children, Shana L. Golden and Christie R. Golden, from a prior marriage.
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