Personal Life
Ellison has been married and divorced four times.
- Adda Quinn from 1967 to 1974.
- Nancy Wheeler Jenkins from 1977 to 1978. They married six months before Ellison founded Software Development Laboratories. In 1978, the couple divorced. Wheeler gave up any claim on her husband's company for $500.
- Barbara Boothe from 1983 to 1986. Barbara was a former receptionist at Relational Software Inc (RSI). They had two children, David and Megan. Both Megan and David were executive producers of the 2010 Coen Brothers film True Grit.
- Melanie Craft, a romance novelist, from 2003 to 2010. They married on 18 December 2003, at his Woodside estate. Ellison's late friend Steve Jobs, former CEO and co-founder of Apple, Inc, was the official wedding photographer, and Representative Tom Lantos officiated. They divorced in 2010.
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