The couple, uh, former couple, seemed to acknowledge their behavior was a tad odd, even for Tinseltown. Oxenberg, 36, a daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia and the single mother of India, 7, told Variety: "Both of us acted spontaneously and we regret any confusion we may have caused." Evans, 68, who had a stroke on May 6, also told Variety: "Catherine was there for me and I fell for her." But, he added, he "forgot [that]...between my various film commitments and the physical therapy," marriage might be more than he could handle.
It was almost more than David Michaels, producer of the upcoming film Groucho, could handle. He called the marriage "this unfathomable event." No wonder. Oxenberg, his lover of four years, had been engaged to him.
Instead she married the brash Evans, who headed Paramount Pictures when the studio made Love Story, The Godfather and The Great Gatsby and who counts actress Ali MacGraw and former Miss America Phyllis George among his ex-wives. But it wasn't until his fifth trip to the altar that Evans married into royalty: Oxenberg is not only the daughter of a princess but Prince Charles's cousin.
Her father, businessman Howard Oxenberg, provided as good an explanation as any for the marriage: "We've been using [Evans's] tennis court for 15 to 20 years," he dead-panned. "If someone lets you use their tennis court for 15 to 20 years, you should marry them."
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