Personal life[edit]
| O'Neill's marriages |
|---|
| Dean Rossiter (1965–1971, divorced, 1 child) |
| Joseph Koster (1972–1974, divorced) |
| Nick De Noia (1975–1976, divorced) |
| Jeff Barry (1978–1979, divorced) |
| John Lederer (1979–1983, divorced, 1 child) |
| Richard Alan Brown (1986–1989, divorced, 1 child) |
| Neil L. Bonin (1992–1993, annulled) |
| Richard Alan Brown (1993–1996, divorced) |
| Mervin Sidney Louque Jr. (1996–present) |
O'Neill has been married nine times to eight husbands (she married, divorced, and remarried her sixth husband Richard Alan Brown).[13] She has three children from three husbands.[32] After the birth of her first child, Aimee, O'Neill experienced undiagnosed postpartum depression, and committed herself to a psychiatric hospital for treatment, which included electroshock therapy.[8]
She was briefly married to Emmy-award winning television producer and choreographer Nick De Noia from 1975 to 1976. De Noia, who also served as O'Neill's manager at the time of their marriage, was a closeted homosexual.[33] In 1987, de Noia was murdered by one of his former associates.[34] O'Neill told journalists that she was "very upset" by the news of his death.[35]
O'Neill's fifth husband, John Lederer, sexually abused her first daughter, Aimee.[6][8] O'Neill initially disbelieved the accusation after Lederer passed several lie detector tests, and the abuse allegation strained her relationship with her daughter.[8] Reflecting on the abuse in 2019, O'Neill said: "My daughter and I are very close today, but we were in court for a year and I didn’t know who to believe. He passed lie detector tests, so it tore my relationship with her apart. He remarried and did the same thing to his next teenage stepchild. He was just a masterful liar. When I understood how much she needed me to recognize that she was telling the truth, and she recognized that I didn’t have a clue. She was integral in helping bring him to justice. She was so brave, she put a wire on and got him to admit what he’d done."[8]
On October 23, 1982, O'Neill suffered a gunshot wound in her home on McClain Street in Bedford, New York. Police officers who interviewed O'Neill determined that she had accidentally shot herself in the abdomen with a .38 caliber revolver at her 30-acre, 25-room French-style estate[23] while trying to determine if the weapon was loaded.[36][37] Her husband at the time, John Lederer, was not in the house when the handgun was discharged, but two other people were in the house. Detective Sgt. Thomas Rothwell was quoted as having said that O'Neill "didn't know much about guns."[38] Reflecting on the incident, O'Neill said:
In 1988, O'Neill became a born-again Christian.[6] Commenting on her faith, she said: "I don't want to preach to anybody; I only want to say what happened to me.'[6] In her 1999 autobiography Surviving Myself, O'Neill describes many of her life experiences, including her marriages, career, and her move to her Tennessee farm in the late 1990s. She has said that she wrote the autobiography (her first book) "... at the prompting of her children."
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