Personal Life
According to a feature on the Bio Channel television program Celebrity Close Calls, Begley nearly died in 1972, after being stabbed multiple times while being mugged by a street gang. His attackers were teenagers, who were later apprehended by police.
He married his first wife, Ingrid Taylor, on October 31, 1976. Their first child, daughter Amanda Begley, was born on October 3, 1977. Their second and last child, son Nicholas Taylor Begley, was born on January 4, 1979. Ed and Ingrid divorced in October 1989. He married Rachelle Carson on August 23, 2000, in Las Vegas, Nevada. They have a daughter named Hayden.
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