Does anyone know what Danielle Steel is up to since 1994? Is she still married to John Traina?

The two biographies available only go up to 1994. What has happened to her since then? Asked by MadyMusic 41 months ago Similar questions: Danielle Steel 1994 married John Traina Arts > Books.

Similar questions: Danielle Steel 1994 married John Traina.

Here's an update ... Steel and Traina got divorced. One of their children, Nicholas, is adopted (from a different father), and neither Steel or Traina had told any of their children. A writer wanted to publish an expose of this and Steel sued.

She eventually lost the subsequent lawsuit. She blames the stress of this for the break up of her marriage to John Traina. Nicholas Traina (the son) committed suicide in 1997 as a result of bipolar disorder and drug abuse.

Steel then married Silicon Valley financier Tom Perkins, but the marriage lasted less than two years, ending in 1999. In 2003, she opened an art gallery in San Francisco called The Steel Gallery of Contemporary Art. It closed in 2006.In 2006 she launched a perfume called Danielle by Danielle Steel.

She currently lives in San Francisco, but spends several months each year in France. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Steel .

Steel married for a fifth time, to Silicon Valley financier Tom Perkins, but it ended in 1999 In 1993 Steel sued a writer who intended to disclose in her book that her son Nick was fathered by William Toth instead of her current husband John Traina, despite the fact that adoption records are sealed in California.1 A San Francisco judge made a highly unusual ruling in ordering the lawsuit sealed and kept secret after its filing. The order was later overturned by the California Supreme Court, who ruled that because Steel was famous, her son's adoption did not have the same privacy right, 1 and the book was allowed to be published.15 At the time, none of her children with Traina knew that Nicholas had been adopted. Steel blamed this fight, and other revelations published in the biography written by Lorenzo Benet and Vickie L.

Bane, for the breakup of her marriage to Traina.1 Following their divorce, Steel used her experience to write Malice, about a happy marriage which is destroyed when the tabloids discover the wife's secret past.8The son at the center of the lawsuits, Nicholas Traina, committed suicide in 1997 as a result of bipolar disorder and drug abuse.11 Traina was the lead singer of San Francisco punk bands Link 80 and Knowledge. In honor of his memory, Steel wrote the nonfiction book about Nick's life and death. Proceeds of the book, which reached the New York Times NonFiction Bestseller List14 were used to found the Nick Traina Foundation, which Steel runs, to fund organizations dedicated to treating mental illness.16 To gain more recognition for children's mental illnesses, Steel has lobbied for legislation in Washington, holds an annual fundraiser (known as The Star Ball) in San Francisco,12 and serves on the Advisory Council of the Center for the Advancement of Children's Mental Health at Columbia University.17edit 1997 - presentSteel married for a fifth time, to Silicon Valley financier Tom Perkins, but the marriage lasted less than two years, ending in 1999.18 Steel has said that her novel The Klone and I was inspired by a private joke between herself and Perkins.19 In 2006, Perkins dedicated his novel Sex and the Single Zillionaire to Steel.

After years of near-constant writing, Steel took a four-month break in 2003 to open an art gallery in San Francisco. The Steel Gallery of Contemporary Art exhibits the paintings and sculptures of emerging artists, especially those whose work Steel collects. The gallery subsequently closed June 4, 2006.20In 2006 Steel reached an agreement with Elizabeth Arden to launch a new perfume, Danielle by Danielle Steel.

The new fragrance, made of mandarin, jasmine, orchid, rose, amber and musk scents, is available only in selected stores. The target audience for the fragrance is readers of Steel's novels, and she believes that the new scent reflects her characters, saying "Fragrances represent so many aspects of life that my characters experience - commitment, love, and emotion. "21Steel lives in San Francisco,20 but also maintains a residence in France where she spends several months of each year and a beach house in La Californie near St.Tropez.1 Despite her public image and varied pursuits, Steel is known to be shy20 and because of that and her desire to protect her children from the tabloids1, she rarely grants interviews or public appearances.22 Her San Francisco home was built in 1913 as the mansion of sugar tycoon Adolph B.Spreckels.23 Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Steel .

As of 2005, she remains married to John Traina Biography of Danielle Steel The following biography is from Wikipedia. Org “The Free Encyclopedia. ” Danielle Steel (born Danielle Fernande Schuelein-Steel on August 14, 1947 in New York City, New York) is one of the best-selling authors in the history of the United States.

Best known for her romance novels, as at 2005, Steel has sold more than 530 million copies of her books. One or more of her novels have been on the New York Times bestseller list for over 390 consecutive weeks and twenty-one of them have been adapted for television. Steel started writing stories as a child, and by her late teens had begun writing poetry.

A graduate of the Lycée Français de New York, class of 1965, she went on to study at New York University and in Europe. At age ninteen she completed her first novel and was first published after years of frustration in 1973. In addition to her novels for adults, Steel has written the "Max and Martha" series of books for young readers.

She has also written the "Freddie" books, four of them, about real-life situations in children's lives, like a visit to the doctor and the first night away from home. Steel has published a book of poetry and has also written two nonfiction books, Having a Baby, and the latter about the life and death of her son Nicholas Traina. An October 2000 copyright article of the American Psychiatric Association provided a review by Dr. Jeffrey L.

Geller, M.D. , M.P.H. Of Danielle Steel's book about her son's illness. That review can be read here. As a result of her own dysfunctional family, Steel maintains a strong interest in the well-being of children, and has raised nine of her own.

She has been married to Claude-Eric Lazard, Danny Zugelder, William Toth, John Traina, and Tom Perkins. She was first married at age eighteen and had one daughter. This was followed by a brief second marriage to a convicted rapist and she soon found herself pregnant out of wedlock with her second child by the heroin addicted William Toth.

She married him shortly before giving birth to their son whom she named Nicholas but they divorced and she married for the fourth time to John Traina, someone with two sons of his own. Traina subsequently adopted Nick and gave him his family name. With John Traina, Steel gave birth to four daughters and a son but that marriage too ended in divorce as did her fifth marriage to businessman Tom Perkins.

For her lifetime contribution to world culture, in 2002 the French government decorated Danielle Steel as a "Chevalier" of the distinguished Order of Arts and Letters. Danielle Steel has a home in Pacific Heights, San Francisco, California and in 2003 opened an art gallery in the city to exhibit the paintings and sculptures of emerging artists. She also maintains a residence in France where she spends several months of each year.

She is of German Jewish and Portuguese heritage. Sources: http://www.popstarsplus.com/authors_daniellesteel.htm .

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