Personal Life
Stevenson married MGM actor-dancer, Russ Tamblyn, on Valentine's Day, 1956, shortly after her half-brother, actor Jeffrey Byron, was born to her mother. She was 17 when she and Tamblyn had their wedding in the Wayfarers Chapel in Palos Verdes. Stevenson and Tamblyn divorced in April 1957, but the two remained friends. A widely-reproduced photo shows Stevenson calmly walking down a Los Angeles street, seemingly unaware that Tamblyn is doing a spectacular backward aerial handspring a few inches away from her.
Stevenson remarried, to Don Everly, in 1962 and retired from acting and modeling. The couple had two daughters, Stacy and Erin Everly, both model/actresses, and a son, Edan Everly, a musician. She divorced Don Everly in 1970 and has not remarried. Erin, the ex-wife of rocker Axl Rose, was the inspiration for several Guns N' Roses songs including Sweet Child o' Mine, where she also appeared in the video.
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