Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. is a 78 year old American actor, comedian and filmmaker. He is mostly well renowned and gained appreciation from the audience for his role as a taxi dispatcher Louie De Palma in the television series Taxi, a sitcom that aired from 1978 to 1983. He won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award. You also might know him as Frank Reynolds from the FXX sitcom It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
His Marriage History, Love Interests And Love Life
Danny DeVito and his long term partner Rhea Perlman have broken up and gotten back together so many times, it's hard to keep a track of their love story timeline now. Both of them have been a part of each other's lives for more than forty years hence the relationship becomes more complicated. Throughout these years they were together, we see that the foundation of their relationship has always been friendship. Since the Matilda stars tied their knot in a private ceremony back in January 1982, they have had an unconventional relationship, all of a sudden revealing a decade later that they’re still together. Let's dive deep into their romance and relationship history.
Are Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman still married?
Right after celebrating their thirtieth anniversary, the couple decided to split up for a brief period of time back in 2012. However, just a year later, they decided to get back together. Even though they have never officially filed for divorce, they separated again in March 2017. "Danny and I, we are still married … and we are still very good friends and we see each other a lot, "Perlman said, as a guest in a 2023 Julia Louis-Dreyfus podcast. "I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, it was difficult, it was very difficult at first. There were a lot of reasons that we separated, which I'm not gonna go into." The 75-year-old actress emphasised, Our family is still the most important thing to both of us.
Becoming Grandparents
Perlman also shared that she and DeVito became grandparents for the first time seven weeks ago and this is the most happiest and surreal moment of their life to see a grandchild in their own lifetime. "It's the kind of love I had never felt before for anything, and I had felt love, you know, for my husband, for other people in my family... but it was a profound kind of feeling, and there it is again," she said. "They can do no wrong, it's like looking at a new human being, it's so amazing that people create other people." In 2019, they both made it clear multiple times that they have no intentions of getting a divorce, they are living separately and their number one priority is being a happy family for their children.
Their Official Split But No Divorce?
We have no idea why they split up and since 2017 they have been separated however none of them have ever filed for divorce. There were some rumours that the reason why they parted was due to the involvement of a third party. Danny’s representatives and team however denied as there was no cheating scandal.