Personal Life
St. John has been married four times. Her first marriage was to Neil Durbin, heir to a linen fortune. They eloped in Yuma, Arizona on May 23, 1957 when she was age 16 and he was 22. The marriage lasted just over a year, ending in divorce on June 3, 1958.
Her second marriage was to racecar driver Lance Reventlow from March 24, 1960 to October 30, 1963. Jill was 19 and Lance was 24 at the time of their wedding. Lance was the son of Barbara Hutton, heir to the F. W. Woolworth fortune. Lance died in a plane crash in 1972.
She married singer Jack Jones on October 14, 1967. They separated in February 1969 and were divorced later that year.
St. John has had relationships with musician Bill Hudson, baseball player Sandy Koufax, actors Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, Barry Coe, Peter Lawford, Robert Vaughn, and Frank Sinatra.
St. John has been married to actor Robert Wagner since May 26, 1990. They first met in 1959 and have been a couple since early 1982.
She has three stepdaughters:
- Katie Wagner: Born in 1964; Wagner's oldest child, from his marriage to Marion Marshall.
- Natasha Gregson: Born in 1970; daughter of Richard Gregson and Natalie Wood, but raised by Wagner and St. John after Wood's death in 1981.
- Courtney Wagner: Born in 1974, Wagner's only child with Wood.
Her stepdaughter, Katie, was the maid of honor at her wedding in 1990. Her matron of honor was Robert Wagner's sister, Mary.
After the death of her second husband Lance Reventlow, she dedicated her cookbook to his memory. Despite their divorce and his subsequent re-marriage, St. John refers to Reventlow as "my late husband" in interviews.
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