Personal Life
Ocasek has been married three times. He married early in life, but divorced and was married to his second wife, Suzanne Ocasek, in 1984. Ocasek was still married to Suzanne when he met model, Pavlína Pořízková, during filming of the music video for The Cars' song "Drive" (directed by Timothy Hutton) later that same year. At that time Pořízková was 19 years old and Ocasek was 35.
Five years after meeting (in 1989) Ocasek and Porizkova married. This was Ocasek's third marriage, and Porizkova's first. In 2009 the couple celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary and their 25th anniversary since they first met.
Ocasek has a total of six sons, two from each of his three marriages.
He and co-founder of The Cars, Benjamin Orr, were known to be close friends. Their friendship was commemorated in a song Ocasek wrote as a dedication to Orr upon his death in 2000 ("Silver", from Nexterday).
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