How long was Aretha Franklin married to Ted White?
How long was Aretha Franklin married to Ted White?
White and Franklin were married just six months after meeting in 1961 when she was only 18. They were together for eight years until 1969.
How old was Aretha when married Ted White?
Franklin and White married in 1961 — when she was 19 and he was reportedly 30 — after a few months of dating. White became her manager, and has writing and cowriting credits on several of Franklin’s songs, including “(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone.” They separated in 1968 and divorced in 1969.
How much older was Ted White?
After just a few weeks of dating, the couple got married while touring Ohio in 1961, when Franklin was 18 and White was 30.
Who fathered Aretha’s first child?
She first became pregnant at the age of 12 and gave birth to her first child, named Clarence after her father, on January 28, 1955. In one of her handwritten wills, discovered in 2019, Franklin revealed that the father was Edward Jordan.
