Starting Over
Adams started her own businesses: Edie Adams Cosmetics, which were sold door to door, and Edie Adams Cut 'n' Curl beauty salons, which she began in 1967. She once owned a 160 acre California almond farm and was the spokeswoman for Sun Giant nuts. Because of her 20 years of commercials for Muriel cigars and her successful business ventures, Adams went from being mired in debt after Kovacs' fatal accident in 1962 to being a millionaire in 1989.
Adams had two later marriages, briefly to photographer Martin Mills, and later to trumpeter Pete Candoli, with whom she appeared in a touring production of the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes. In addition to taking care of two stepdaughters, she gave birth to two children; a daughter, Mia Susan Kovacs (who was born in 1959 and was killed in an automobile accident in 1982), and a son, Joshua Mills.
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