James Brolin - Personal Life

Personal Life

Brolin has been married three times and has three children.

In 1966, Brolin married Jane Cameron Agee, an aspiring actress at Twentieth Century Fox, 12 days after they first met. The couple had two children, Josh (b. 1968), and Jess (b. 1972). They were divorced in 1984, after 18 years of marriage. Jane died in a car accident on February 13, 1995, one day after son Josh's 27th birthday. Josh said on the October 14, 2008, episode of the Late Show with David Letterman that his parents met on the TV series Batman, where his mother was a casting executive.

In 1985, Brolin met actress Jan Smithers on the set of Hotel, and they married in 1986. The couple had a daughter, Molly Elizabeth (1987). Jan Smithers filed for divorce from Brolin in 1995, a few weeks after the death of his first wife, Jane.

In 1996, Brolin met singer, actress and director Barbra Streisand through a friend, and the two were married on July 1, 1998. He and Streisand reside in Malibu, California.

He is also the grandfather of Trevor (b. 1988) and Eden (b. 1993), from his son Josh's first marriage.

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