Personal Life
Strahan resides in Rutherford, New Jersey.
Through 1996 he was married to Wanda Hutchins in Germany. They have a daughter, Tanita (1992), and son Michael Jr. (1995). Michael Sr. moved them to the US and purchased a $163,000 house for them in the same Houston neighborhood as his parents; he pays $2,500 monthly in child support.
In 1999, he married Jean Muggli of North Dakota. Stories conflict as to whether they met at a 1996 book signing or at a Manhattan, New York spa. They have twin daughters, Sophia and Isabella (born October 2004). They divorced acrimoniously in 2006. Jean Muggli made an accusation of Strahan videotaping her sister, beating Jean, and repeatedly cheating. In January 2007 Judge James B Cooney awarded Muggli $15 million in a divorce settlement in addition to $18,000 monthly child support. Muggli claimed and testified that their (at the time 20 month old) daughters did “like to be accessorized", and that “Isabella doesn't like to leave the house without a purse” as the justification for her $22,500 photoshoots, $27,000 clothing bills, and $1,700 in sign language classes. (Neither daughter is hearing impaired.) With this being more than half of his $22 million assets, Strahan appealed. In March 2007, divorce judge Cooney ordered the mansion to be auctioned and the sales money split evenly with Jean; the house is valued at $3.6 million.
In June 2011, Strahan filmed a commercial supporting legalizing same-sex marriage in New York.
Michael Strahan is now engaged to Nicole Murphy, Eddie Murphy's ex wife.
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