Personal life Johnny Weissmuller

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with second wife, mexican actress lupe vélez in newspaper press photo (1934)


weissmuller had 5 wives: band , club singer bobbe arnst (married 1931 – divorced 1933); actress lupe vélez (married 1933 – divorced 1939); beryl scott (married 1939 – divorced 1948); allene gates (married 1948 – divorced 1962); , maria baumann (from 1963 until death in 1984).


with third wife, beryl, had 3 children, johnny weissmuller, jr. (1940 – 2006), wendy anne weissmuller (born 1942), , heidi elizabeth weissmuller (1944 – 1962), killed in car crash. had stepdaughter baumann, lisa weissmuller-gallagher.


declining health , death

in 1974, weissmuller broke both hip , leg, marking beginning of years of declining health. while hospitalized learned in spite of strength , lifelong daily regimen of swimming , exercise, had serious heart condition. in 1977, weissmuller suffered series of strokes. in 1979, entered motion picture & television country house , hospital in woodland hills, california several weeks before moving last wife, maria, acapulco, mexico, location of last tarzan movie.


on january 20, 1984, weissmuller died pulmonary edema @ age of 79. buried outside acapulco, valle de la luz @ valley of light cemetery. coffin lowered ground, recording of tarzan yell invented played 3 times, @ request. honored 21-gun salute, befitting head-of-state, arranged senator ted kennedy , president ronald reagan.








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