However, Duane and Anne eventually reunited briefly to have a third child, son James Chapman, 39. They had a second child, Wesley Chapman, now 40, but divorced afterwards. Duane and Anne welcomed their first child, son Zebadiah Chapman on January 1, 1980, but he died nearly a month later. The nuptials took place on Augin Colorado.
Shortly after Duane was released from prison on parole after two years, he got married to Anne Tegnell. While married, Duane and La Fonda welcomed two sons: Duane Lee Chapman Jr., 48, and Leland Blane Chapman, 44, who lived with their father after his prison release and eventually appeared on Dog the Bounty Hunter. Their marriage lasted until October 27, 1977, when La Fonda filed for divorce after Duane was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to five years in a Texas prison. The pair tied the knot in Texas on April 1, 1972, when Duane was 19 years old and La Fonda was 20 years old. Learn more below!ĭuane Chapman at the 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas on Ap(Photo: Mediapunch/Shutterstock) La Fonda Sue Honeycuttĭuane’s first marriage was to La Fonda Sue Honeycutt. HollywoodLife has rounded up everything there is to know about Duane’s five marriages, as well as his romance with Francie. Following Beth’s death, Duane found solace with Francie, who had also experienced the loss of her husband.ĭuane has had 12 children, 11 of whom came from his marriages to Beth and four women prior that all ended in divorce. The 68-year-old television personality got married for the sixth time, and this time, he tied the knot with Francie Frane. Duane and Francie got engaged in May 2020, roughly ten months after Duane’s wife Beth Chapmandied of throat cancer. “I thought I had a pass in the black tribe to use it, kind of like Eminem,” he said in an interview published this week.Now that Dog The Bounty Hunter is married again, learn about the reality star’s five previous marriages and his new partner, Francie Frane.ĭuane “Dog The Bounty Hunter” Chapman said “I do” all over again on Sept. “I had forgiven my father after my mother’s death for countless actions that I shouldn’t have.”ĭog, however, has maintained that he’s not racist and claimed he was given a “pass” by his black “brothers” in prison to say the N-word. “I have expressed time and time again my ever-growing disappointment in my father’s progression into his old racist ways,” Bonnie shared in a post. The couple got engaged 10 months after Dog’s late wife Beth died.
“So when I came in I was like, ‘Wow, this is awesome.’ Then he said, ‘Come in, sit down because I need to talk to you.’ So I put all the food in the kitchen and I came in and he said, ‘I know that God brought you into my life and I don’t want to spend one moment of it without you.’”ĭespite the happy news, Dog is still in a very public feud with Bonnie, who believes her father is homophobic and racist. “I think I had gone to pick up some food and then when I came back, he had all the lights turned down with just a few lights on and a bunch of candles lit.” “I wasn’t expecting it at all,” Frane told The Sun of the proposal. Dog popped the question at their Colorado home. The newlyweds got engaged in May 2020 - just 10 months after Beth’s death and a failed proposal to now-ex Moon Angell.
The former A&E reality star was previously married to Beth Chapman for 13 years up until her death in June 2019 at age 51 after a lengthy battle with throat cancer.įrane’s husband also passed away after a cancer battle just six months before Beth. “We appreciate the support and well-wishes as we begin our life together,” Dog told Page Six in a statement on Friday. Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman’s daughter accuses him of racism, homophobia, cheating on late wifeĭog the Bounty Hunter and Francie Frane are officially husband and wife.ĭog and his fiancée married Thursday evening in an “emotional and intimate” ceremony in Colorado Springs surrounded by close friends and family amid ongoing drama with his daughter Bonnie.