Kevin Costner‘s TV drama Yellowstone, now in its fifth season, has a devoted following; during the season premiere, it drew 15 million people, earning it the distinction of most-watched cable show of 2022.
The program centers on a wealthy ranching family that will do anything it takes to defend their estate. While 68-year-old Costner doesn’t exactly deal with violent land developers on a daily basis, he has some experience dealing with the ups and downs of being a father. Here is everything you need to know about Kevin Costner’s romances and fatherhood path, from his first marriage to his college sweetheart through his upcoming divorce from his present wife.
The Field of Dreams actor and Cindy Silva first became acquainted while both were students at California State University, Fullerton. She even performed as the princess at Disneyland during her summer breaks, according to rumors that she looked like Snow White.
In 1989, Costner told People, “She was gorgeous, she was sweet, and she was smarter than me.” “She embodied everything I like about women,” I said.
Over the course of their sixteen-year marriage, they had three children: Annie, 38, Lily, 36, and Joe, 34. They were married in 1978. Silva, 66, even assisted her husband on the set of Dances With Wolves, and both Costner and Silva were claimed to have put in a lot of effort to maintain the union.
But soon after they finished shooting the critically acclaimed film, specifically in 1990, as he was working on Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, suspicions about his infidelity began to surface. In a statement announcing their divorce, they claimed to have “amicably resolved all issues regarding our children and financial affairs and a full marital settlement has been reached.” in 1994. According to E! News, Costner paid a high price for the split because Silva reportedly collected almost $80 million.
A brief post-divorce relationship with Bridget Rooney, a Pittsburgh Steelers heiress according to Parade, produced Costner’s fourth child, son Liam, who is now 27. Costner reportedly established a trust fund in Liam’s name and saw the child “occasionally but not on a regular basis,” a source told People, despite the fact that he supposedly only confirmed the boy’s fatherhood when Rooney insisted on a paternity test. In 2005, Rooney wed William Koch, a billionaire and the brother of Charles and David Koch.
