7 Celebrities Who Got Married After 70
Neil Young and Daryl Hannah; Diana Taylor and Michael BloombergCredit: Sarah Morris/Getty; James Devaney/GC Images
These stars prove that it’s never too late to say “I do.”
Celebrities like Dick Van Dyke, George Takei and, most recently, Michael Bloomberg tied the knot with their life partners after the age of 70. After 26 years together, the former N.Y.C. mayor, 84, and Diana Taylor, 71, married in a “small, private ceremony at their home on the Upper East Side,” a spokesperson for Bloomberg shared on X.
Late legends like Tina Turner and Robert Redford also found lasting love with their respective partners, Erwin Bach and Sibylle Szaggars, and they remained with them until their deaths in 2023 and 2025.
Ahead, read about the sweet love stories of seven celebrities who found their happy endings after age 70.
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Dick Van Dyke
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The Mary Poppins actor and his wife of 14 years, makeup artist Arlene Silver, met at the 2006 SAG Awards. After the death of Van Dyke’s longtime love, Michelle Triola, from lung cancer in 2009, Silver stayed by his side through his grief.
“Arlene would come by after work and bring me food,” he told PEOPLE. “She was such a support. I fell in love.”
She moved into his Malibu home in 2011, and the couple wed in February 2012, when Van Dyke was 86. They’ve since shared the screen multiple times, including an appearance in Coldplay’s music video for “All My Love” and a guest spot on the soap opera Days of Our Lives.
“She’s responsible for keeping me in the moment,” Van Dyke told PEOPLE in November 2025. “She’s kept me happy every day of my life, every day. She’s a joy. She can get me singing or dancing and she carries so much responsibility ... I’m just lucky.”
02 of 07
Michael Bloomberg
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Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, 84, and his longtime partner, business executive Diana Taylor, 71, exchanged vows 26 years after they met at a business luncheon during his first mayoral campaign. That same night in 2000, he asked her to have a drink, and the rest is history. Taylor served as the unofficial first lady during his term as N.Y.C.’s mayor from 2002 to 2013 and stood by his side during his 2020 presidential run.
“The longtime couple exchanged vows today in a small, private ceremony at their home on the Upper East Side, joined by family, including his daughters, Emma and Georgina,” a spokesperson for Bloomberg announced.
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George Takei
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Star Trek actor Takei joined an LGBTQ+ running club in the 1980s, where his now-husband Brad Takei (né Altman) was a member.
“He was the best runner in the club,” George told Winfrey on an Oprah: Where Are They Now? episode. “And also great-looking. So I went up to him, and I asked him to train me for my first marathon. Before long, we became partners.”
In 2005, Takei came out as a gay man in Frontiers magazine, and three years later, the pair tied the knot in a Buddhist ceremony in downtown Los Angeles when the actor was 71. They became the first openly gay couple to compete on The Newlywed Game, and the couple acknowledged how much “our culture has changed” since the game show’s inception in the ‘60s.
“We want to be seen [on the show] in context throughout society as no different from other couples who preceded us, in the context of normalcy and commitment to each other,” George said.
04 of 07
Neil Young
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Canadian rock star Neil Young and actress Daryl Hannah were spotted grabbing dinner in Westlake, California, in 2014, and they haven’t left each other’s side since. Although they remain relatively private and limit their public appearances, in 2018, Young reflected on the initial scrutiny their relationship received, as he had recently divorced his second wife before the two were linked.
“We didn’t pay any attention to that. It doesn’t matter,” Young told Yahoo! Entertainment. “It doesn’t matter. What matters is us, not the press. [Daryl is] a wonderful human being, and I’m very lucky to know her.”
They quietly married in July 2018, reportedly tying the knot on his W.G. Ragland boat off the coast of Washington. Young was 72, while Hannah was 57.
“Neil’s biggest passion in life is the environment. Daryl is the exact same,” an insider told PEOPLE. “They bonded over their activism.”
She directed the 2024 documentary Neil Young: Coastal, a behind-the-scenes look at her husband’s solo tour, and they made a rare public appearance to present the movie at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
05 of 07
Tina TurnerTina Turner and Erwin BachCredit: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty
Turner met the German music executive in 1985 at the airport in Düsseldorf, Germany, and in a 2021 HBO documentary about the singer, the couple said sparks flew the moment they locked eyes.
“He was 30 years old at the time and had the prettiest face,” Turner recalled. “I mean, you cannot [describe] it. It was like insane. [I thought], ‘Where did he come from?’ He was really so good-looking. My heart [was beating fast] and it means that a soul has met, and my hands were shaking.”
After 27 years of dating, Turner, then 73, married Bach in a 2013 civil ceremony in Switzerland. They threw a lavish party following their nuptials, inviting stars like Oprah Winfrey and Giorgio Armani to their lakeside estate in Switzerland. The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll would live out the rest of her days with Bach in Switzerland, and she died at age 83 in May 2023.
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Robert Redford
Robert Redford and Sibylle SzaggarsCredit: Andreas Rentz/Getty
Redford first connected with his second wife, artist Sibylle Szaggars, in the late ‘90s at the actor’s Sundance Mountain Resort. During a 2014 panel for the YoungArts Salon, Szaggars shared that Redford had invited her and a group of friends to dinner, and she didn’t know much about his filmography. She rented all of his movies and watched 15 minutes of each before the dinner, but Redford said her lack of knowledge about his career attracted him.
“It was a wonderful beginning of a relationship, because it began as two human beings meeting each other and finding a connection as two human beings, rather than being colored by success,” he said.
After more than a decade together, a then-72-year-old Redford married Szaggars in a private ceremony in her hometown of Hamburg, Germany, in July 2009. The Oscar winner rarely discussed his relationship publicly, though he called his wife a “very special person” who gave him “a whole new life” in his 2011 AARP The Magazine cover story.
They remained together at his longtime residence in Sundance, Utah, until his death at age 89 in September 2025.
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Patrick Stewart
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Patrick Stewart had a meet-cute with his wife Sunny Ozell in 2008, when he was starring in a Broadway production of Macbeth. Ozell, then a waitress at the now-closed pizzeria Franny’s, approached Stewart’s table and asked what they wanted for dessert, on the house.
“We got talking and she told me how much she’d wanted to see Macbeth, but it had been sold out,” the actor recalled to PEOPLE in 2022. He gave her his phone number, and they reconnected backstage after the show and went on a date.
“I’ve never met anyone like her before,” the star said. “She is so smart and so informed. And her intellectual accomplishments are extraordinary. She remembers everything. My life is perpetually interesting — and it’s largely as a result of Sunny.”
A 73-year-old Stewart married Ozell in September 2013 during a ceremony at Lake Tahoe officiated by his longtime friend Ian McKellen. He died at age 86 in October 2026 “in the loving care of his beloved wife Sunny, following a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia,” read a statement from Stewart’s spokesperson.
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