Bonnie Raitt’s Husband: Everything To Know About Her Past Marriage To Michael O’Keefe

• Bonnie Raitt is simply a folksinger known for her deed opus “Just Like That.”
• She was antecedently joined to Michael O’Keefe.
• During the Grammy Awards connected Feb. 5, 2023, Bonnie took location the Song of The Year & Best American Roots Song awards.

“Just Like That” hitmaker Bonnie Raitt, 73, is simply a blues and people vocalist with 13 Grammys to her name. Some of her different deed songs see “I Can’t Make You Love Me” and “Love Letter.” The red-haired quality precocious stole the amusement astatine the 65th Annual Grammy Awards erstwhile she took location the grant for Song of The Year for her deed “Just Like That.” In addition, Bonnie was recognized for Best American Roots Song for the aforesaid track! Although the 73-year-old is simply a palmy musician, immoderate mightiness wonderment astir her idiosyncratic life, including who she’s married to. Below is everything to cognize astir Bonnie’s ex-husband, their marriage, and more!

Bonnie Raitt & her ex, Michael O’Keefe, (BEI/Shutterstock)

Who Is Bonnie Raitt’s Husband?

The California autochthonal is not presently married, but she erstwhile had a astir decennary long marriage to actor Michael O’Keefe, 67. The 67-year-old has starred successful galore deed movies passim his decades-long vocation including his enactment connected The Slugger’s Wife. Michael has worked alongside immoderate of Hollywood’s astir notable names including Meet the Parents star Blythe Danner, the precocious legend Peter Fonda, and Men successful Black‘s Tommy Lee Jones.

Michael is truthful talented that helium was adjacent nominated for a prestigious Academy Award successful 1981 for his enactment connected The Great Santini. That aforesaid twelvemonth the New York autochthonal earned a Golden Globe information for his enactment connected the aforesaid film. Aside from acting, Michael has besides dabbled successful directing with 1 project, Raising the Ashes, to his name, according to his IMDb page.

Their Marriage

Bonnie Raitt is simply a vocalist & Grammy-winner. (@broadimage / SplashNews.com)

Bonnie and The Great Santini star tied the knot implicit 3 decades agone successful 1991. Although they stayed joined for astir 10 years, they yet called it quits by 1999. The songstress and her ex are comparatively backstage radical and did not sermon the details of their narration often. During a uncommon interrogation with Rolling Stone successful 1990, Bonnie opened up astir her and Michael’s emotion story. “This narration benignant of snuck up connected me. I was successful Los Angeles for a portion successful the fall, and I made a video astir the stateless called ‘Wake Up America’… and Michael sang connected the grounds and was directing us,” she recalled astatine the time.

“And I gave idiosyncratic my fig to springiness to him, and I went backmost retired connected the road. He called, and erstwhile I got back, we went retired and person been hanging retired ever since. But it’s not similar we’re joined astatine the hip. He lives successful New York, and I unrecorded here, truthful we spot each different occasionally,” she continued. Now, 24 years aft their divorce, Bonnie has not remarried and is not believed to beryllium dating anyone. The aforesaid cannot beryllium said for Michael who recovered emotion erstwhile much and joined to histrion Emily Donahoe successful 2011.

Does The Singer Have Children?

Although Bonnie and her ex were successful emotion galore years ago, they did not invited immoderate children during their relationship. In fact, the “Nick of Time” vocalist made it wide to Rolling Stone in 1990 that she wasn’t the biggest instrumentality of becoming a mother. “In the mediate of the Eighties, erstwhile I was successful my thirties, it was retired of the question, due to the fact that I was truthful unhealthy and truthful miserable, and I knew I’d person to cleanable up earlier I had kids,” she shared with the outlet. “And present that I cleaned up, I consciousness similar I’m my ain kid.”

In addition, she told The New York Times in 1998 that kids were not a committedness she wanted to make. “Having children is an unthinkable commitment. That’s wherefore I chose not to. I consciousness that my occupation is to parent the causes that I’m progressive in. And with me, it’s already truthful hard to accidental no,” Bonnie said.

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