Following the passing of his mother Lauren Bacall in August, there is some happy news for Stephen Bogart. The 66-year-old – the only son of screen siren Lauren and fellow Hollywood icon Humphrey Bogart – is getting married in November.
Producer and writer Stephen will wed
Carla Sovieroin New York City towards the end of the year in a ceremony he had been planning at the time of his mother’s
sudden deathon 12 August.He told the
New York Posthe was
devastatedthat Lauren didn’t live long enough to be there."It's my third marriage, her second… I knew Carla long ago, but we separated then reconnected. I'm 66, she's 60," he said of his bride, adding that his sister
Leslie Bacallwas flying in from LA, and his half-brother
Sam Robardswould be coming from Denmark.
Former New York Mayor David Dinkins is officiating the small ceremony.Stephen is Lauren's eldest child. She married Humphrey in 1945 when
she was 20 and he was 45, and the couple welcomed
Stephen(born 1949) and his sister
Leslie(born 1952), before the actor's death in 1957.Lauren married her second husband, actor
Jason Robards Jr,in 1961, and together they had a son,
Sam, before their divorce in 1969.
Following Lauren's death, it was announced that her
$26.6million estatewould be divided between her children, with
$10,000set aside to care for her beloved dog Sophie.