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Diane Keaton family: Was she married? All on children Diane and Dexter
Diane Keaton welcomed her two children through adoption.
Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton has passed away at the age of 79, People magazine reported Saturday. Cause of death has not been disclosed.
"There are no further details available at this time, and her family has asked for privacy in this moment of great sadness," a spokesperson told the magazine.
Keaton was best known for her Academy Award-winning performance in 1977’s Annie Hall, as well as her iconic role as Kay Adams in The Godfather trilogy.
What authorities said
The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) confirmed to People that emergency personnel responded to Keaton’s home at 8:08 a.m. local time on Saturday. She was transported to a nearby hospital. No further details have been released.
Diane Keaton family
Though she never married, Keaton became a mother in her 50s through adoption. She adopted her daughter, Dexter, in 1996, a year after Dexter was born on December 15, 1995. Dexter married Jordan White on June 12, 2021, after the couple began dating in 2019.
Her son, Duke, was born on February 8, 2000, and adopted in 2001.
"Motherhood was not an urge I couldn't resist, it was more like a thought I'd been thinking for a very long time. So I plunged in,” she told Ladies' Home Journal in 2008.
Romantic relationships
Over the years, Keaton was romantically linked to several high-profile figures, including Woody Allen, Al Pacino, and Warren Beatty. Despite their past, Keaton and Allen remained close friends for nearly six decades.
A source close to Allen, now 89, told People that he was "extremely distraught, surprised, and upset" by the news of Keaton’s death.
“It makes him think of his own mortality, ” the source added. "He appreciated her very much."
The source also noted that Allen had not been aware of any health issues: "Nobody seemed to know. He was surprised."
