Thomas Daniel Mottola (born July 14, 1949) is an American music executive, producer and author. He is currently the Chairman of Mottola Media Group and previously the Chairman & CEO of Sony Music Entertainment, parent of the Columbia label, for nearly 15 years. He is married to the Mexican actress and singer Thalía. They have an adopted half-Korean daughter named Cynthia Lee Hudson.
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Tommy Mottola
Tommy Mottola | Introduction
He is an American music executive, producer and author. He is an American music executive, producer and author. He is an American music executive, producer and author. He is an American music executive, producer and author.
who sang all i want for christmas in 1995
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Mariah Carey.
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who is she?
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She is an American singer-songwriter and actress.
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what was her early days like?
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Racial tensions prevented the Carey family from integrating into their community though she excelled in the arts, such as music and literature in school.
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what are some famous songs she performed during 2010?
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Oh Santa! and Auld Lang Syne (The New Year's Anthem).
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who composed the former mentioned one?
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Mariah Carey.
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how did it perform in the charts?
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It became a record-breaking entry on the "Billboard" Adult Contemporary songs chart.
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how was it received critically?
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There were mixed reviews.
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what was her other song about?
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It is a re-write of "Auld Lang Syne" and Robert Burns and Mariah Carey had re-composed the poem into a house song.
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how was it received critically?
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Negative responses from critics.
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what are some philanthropic activities this singer is associated with?
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The Fresh Air Fund and the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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what does the latter mentioned foundation do?
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They help fulfill the wishes of children with a critical illness between the ages of 2 and 18 years old.
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what is her style of music?
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Love is the subject of the majority of Carey's lyrics, although she has written about themes such as loss, sex, race, abuse and spirituality.
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what are some awards she has received?
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The World Music Awards' Best Selling Female Artist of the Millennium, the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1991, and "Billboard"s Special Achievement Award for the Artist of the Decade
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who did she marry?
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Tommy Mottola.
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what is his profession?
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Mottola has been married three times. He converted to Judaism to marry his first wife, Lisa Clark, daughter of ABC Records head Sam Clark, in 1971. The couple divorced in 1990, after having two children, Michael and Sarah. On June 5, 1993, Mottola married his second wife, Mariah Carey. They announced their separation on May 30, 1997, and later divorced. He married his third wife, Thalía, on December 2, 2000, at New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral. The couple have two children, daughter Sabrina Sakaë Mottola, born in October 2007, and son Matthew Alejandro Mottola, born in June 2011.
Tommy Mottola | Personal life
Thomas Daniel Mottola (born July 14, 1949) is an American music executive, producer and author. He is currently the Chairman of Mottola Media Group and previously the Chairman & CEO of Sony Music Entertainment, parent of the Columbia label, for nearly 15 years. He is married to the Mexican actress and singer Thalía. They have an adopted half-Korean daughter named Cynthia Lee Hudson.
Tommy Mottola | Introduction
Mottola was born in The Bronx to a middle-class Italian-American family. He graduated from Iona Grammar School in 1962 and Iona Prep in 1966. He attended military school for a time, and then high school. After dropping out of Hofstra University on Long Island, he pursued a music career as a guitarist and singer with The Exotics, an R&B cover band. Mottola is the cousin of Jazz guitarist Tony Mottola. Mottola entered in the music scene in the mid-1960s as a recording artist for CBS Records, under the name "T.D. Valentine". After his attempt to become a recording star himself failed, Mottola started working for publishing powerhouse Chappell Publishing and started his own management company, Champion Entertainment Organization.
Tommy Mottola | Early life
He was an auctioneer and estate agent by trade and married Beatrice Nellie Foster, they lived in Lewisham.
Tommy Hills | Personal Life
She was about the age of 15 when she met and fell in love with 'Tommy' Graydon ... It was impossible from the first day for any observer not to see they were desperately in love with each other. After the completion of his education, published accounts differ as to Graydon's professional career. According to contemporaneous press accounts, Graydon trained as a cobbler in Cincinnati after graduating from Harvard—hoping to learn the shoe business. He later became manager for a shoe company.
Thomas Graydon | Marriage and professional life
Vitolo is married to Jennifer Taranto, has two school-aged children, and lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Tommy Vitolo | Personal
Later on he met stylist Alfredo Palacios and actress and singer Verónica Castro, who hires him as a dresser. Olga Guillot, Lupita D’alesio, Olga Breenskin, y Thalía later wore his designs. Thalía's wedding gown In 2000, when Thalía married music manager Tommy Mottola,she decided to use one of Mitzy's designs, despite the fact that she already had a compromise with Dior.
Mitzy (fashion designer) | Biography
Tommy's wife Aileen is a former dancer. They met in Korea, on a USO tour in the mid-1960s, and married after they had both returned stateside. The couple has two children.
Tommy Cole | Personal life
Pleshette's 1964 marriage to her "Rome Adventure" and "A Distant Trumpet" co-star Troy Donahue ended in divorce after just eight months. Her second husband was oilman Tom Gallagher, to whom she was married from 1968 until his death from lung cancer on January 21, 2000. She suffered a miscarriage during her marriage to Gallagher, and the couple was childless. Asked about children in an October 2000 interview, Pleshette stated: "I certainly would have liked to have had Tommy’s children. But my nurturing instincts are fulfilled in other ways. I have a large extended family; I'm the mother on every set.
Suzanne Pleshette | Personal life
His role at Chappell put him in touch with many artists, and soon he signed his first successful management clients, Daryl Hall & John Oates. Mottola helped Hall and Oates land a record deal and several high-profile endorsements. He was also recognized for managing the black rock group Xavion successfully using new media for promotion, such as music videos and corporate sponsorship for music tours.
Tommy Mottola | Early life
Thalía was in a relationship with actor Fernando Colunga from 1995 to 1996 while they appeared on the series "María la del Barrio". Thalia married music executive Tommy Mottola on 2 December 2000. The couple have two children, daughter Sabrina Sakaë, born on October 8, 2007, and son Matthew Alejandro, born on June 24, 2011. Thalía has stated in her autobiography and elsewhere that she is religious and believes profoundly in God. She began studying Kabbalah in 2002, using many of its symbols in the artwork of her album "El Sexto Sentido".
Thalía | Personal life
Tommy Leonetti was born Nicola Tomaso Lionetti in Bergen County, New Jersey in 1929. He married the American actress Cindy Robbins on November 27, 1965, in Beverly Hills, California.
Tommy Leonetti | Personal life
Tiernan married Yvonne McMahon, his partner and manager, on 9 August 2009 in County Monaghan; they had been together since December 2002.
Tommy Tiernan | Personal life
He married Blanche Lamprell on 28 December 1909; they were divorced in 1922. He married Ettie May Clark (-1929) in 1923. He married Laura Isobel McLeod in 1934.
Tommy Lamprell | Marriages
Tommy married his wife, Megan, in 2013 and the ceremony was officiated by comedian and actor Rob Little. They reside in Redondo Beach, California. His mother is folk singer-songwriter Barb Ryman. His early comedic inspiration came from the late Mitch Hedberg.
Tommy Ryman | Personal
Bianchi is married and the mother of two children, the elder a clerk and the younger an architect.
Graciela Bianchi | Personal life
Carey began dating Tommy Mottola while recording "Music Box", and married him on June 5, 1993. After the release of "Daydream" and the success that followed, Carey began focusing on her personal life, which was a constant struggle at the time. Carey's relationship with Mottola began to deteriorate, due to their growing creative differences in terms of her albums, as well as his controlling nature. On May 30, 1997, the couple announced their separation, with their divorce finalized by the time Mottola remarried on December 2, 2000. Carey was in a three-year relationship with singer Luis Miguel from 1998 to 2001.
Mariah Carey | Personal life
The marriage ended in divorce after nine years.
Tony Fruscella | Biography
Coughlan married Muriel Sadlier in 1983.
Anthony Coughlan | Career
Thalía's husband, Tommy Mottola commented : "You previously knew Thalía the popular icon, now you will learn Thalía the artist". Generally, diverse mass media coincided that both the production and the new look marked a "before and after" in Thalía's career. Regarding to this issue, Thalía stated that there were three reasons for this change, "her maternity, her health problems, and a natural maturation in her spiritual life".
Primera Fila (Thalía album) | Recording process
She had been married the Argentine-born painter Basil Yurchenco. The couple divorced in 1955.
Henrietta Yurchenco | Personal life
She married Julio Medina, a lawyer by profession. They had one daughter: Cecilia Medina Carmagnola.
Gladys Carmagnola | Her Family
In the late 1940s, Hancock hired Charlene Condray as a singer; they went on to marry. Together with five of their children, they toured the Rocky Mountains as "The Supernatural Family Band". Today, three of their children still tour as the "Texana Dames".
Tommy Hancock | Introduction
Manville soon began describing himself as a "retired businessman," or gave his occupation as "looking after my estate." Manville took 11 wives in 13 marriages. He remarried twice and was divorced from 10 of them a total of 11 times. In May 1931, he married Avonne Taylor, a Follies girl. She had been wed twice before. They separated after 34 days, and were divorced that November. In October 1933, Manville married Marcelle Edwards, a showgirl. They divorced in October 1937 after a $200,000 settlement. In November 1941, he married Bonita Edwards, a 22-year-old showgirl. They were divorced in January 1942.
Tommy Manville | Subsequent marriages
Harman was married to stylist Marco Traniello, who since became a professional poker player as well. They have twin boys. Traniello and Harman have since divorced.
Jennifer Harman | Personal life
Milone married Tina Sarnecki. They welcomed their first child, daughter Mia, in July 2016.
Tommy Milone | Personal life
He was a business partner in sports goods by trade.
Tommy Harvey | Personal life
She was briefly married to dancer Tommy Rall and later married opera star Giorgio Tozzi in 1967, with whom she had two children, Jennifer and Eric. She was widowed seven months before her own death.
Monte Amundsen | Personal life
He never married.
Nicholas Georgiadis | Professional career
After retiring from wrestling in 1998, Hayes returned to college. On October 12, 2002 at the Lake Isle Country Club in Eastchester, New York, Hayes married Tommy Dreamer, with whom she later had twin girls, Brianna Laughlin and Kimberly Laughlin. The twins appeared in the season six episode of "The Sopranos" called "The Ride" as Domenica Baccalieri, Tony Soprano's baby niece.
Beulah McGillicutty | Personal life
The costume design was by Travilla.
How to Marry a Millionaire | Production
Palazzolo married his wife Marcia Daehn in 1968. They had three children: Sarah, Amy, and Todd. Amy was featured in one of Palazzolo's short films in 2001 known as "Rita on the Ropes" which Jack Helbig helped write.
Tom Palazzolo | Personal life
On September 6, 2015, Scanlan married Connecticut automobile dealer John Mocadlo, after being engaged for eight months. Mocadlo and Scanlan served ex officio for the Miss Connecticut Scholarship Organization within the Miss America program. In 2016, Scanlan and her husband had a son, and divorced later that same year.
Teresa Scanlan | Personal life
Dalya married screenwriter William Conselman in January 1941 in Las Vegas, Nevada. They were divorced in 1944. She subsequently married lyricist Bob Hilliard in 1949, to whom she remained married until his death in 1971.
Jacqueline Dalya | Marriages
Alfinito married in 1995 and gave birth to a son in 1997.
Daniela Alfinito | Life and career
Hernández was married.
José María Hernández | Career
Hood was married twice, first to singer and insurance salesman Robert W. Decker (1949–1957), then to record-company executive Jose Granson (1957–1979). She and Granson had three children. Tommy "Butch" Bond mentioned that her marriage to Granson was difficult because he used a wheelchair following a stroke.
Darla Hood | Personal life
She was married to actor Fred Robsahm.
Agostina Belli | Life and career
In the mid-to-late 1940s, Nela Arias studied fashion design and art at the Traphagen School of Fashion, at the Hans Hofmann School, and Parsons School of Design of New York City. In 1949, she married New York lawyer Sidney Kraft. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1955. During these years, she studied with Italian-American sculptor Leo Lentelli and at the Art Students League of New York, a formative school for the likes of Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Clement Greenberg, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko and Cuban artist of Asturian background, Amelia Pelaez del Casal.
Nela Arias-Misson | Career
He was married to Teresa Marcó, daughter of Jaime Marcó and Teresa Laurel, belonging to a family of Spanish immigrants.
Diego E. Thompson | Introduction
She married Air Force officer Joseph T. "Tom" Norris Jr. on May 7, 1988.
Marianne Muellerleile | Personal life
Estrella is married to Marilyn, an army nurse; they have a daughter, Abby.
Hilario Estrella | Personal life
Mariana Vega is married to Sergio Pizzolante, a media consultant for TV, film, and entertainment companies.
Mariana Vega | Personal life
Farrell was married three times. He had a daughter, born in 1945, with his first wife, Norma, another daughter, born in 1951, with his second wife, Ann, and two more children, a son and a daughter, with his third wife, Bobbi.
Tommy Farrell | Personal life
Goodenbour is married to Pat Fuscaldo, head men's basketball coach at Sonoma State University.
Molly Goodenbour | Personal
Additionally, Mottola was the architect for some of Sony's biggest global brands such as Celine Dion and Mariah Carey. During his 15-year tenure, Mottola built Sony up from a company with revenues of $800 million a year to one with over $6 billion of annual revenue by the year 2000. He is widely well-known for signing, developing and nurturing the careers of Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Gloria Estefan, R&B group Destiny's Child, Jessica Simpson, Anastacia, Shakira, the Dixie Chicks, and for releasing digitally remastered compact discs of the older recordings made by Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Andy Williams, among others.
Tommy Mottola | Sony/Columbia
On February 21, 2009 he married Tara Lorraine, a chiropractor. They have three children.
Con Chellis | Personal life
Three times divorced, Golisano is married to former tennis player Monica Seles.
Tom Golisano | Personal life
Lasorda was second born and one of five brothers. His brothers were Edward (deceased), Harry, Morris (deceased), and Joseph (deceased). A practicing Roman Catholic, Lasorda was married in the Catholic Church to his Baptist wife and they raised their children in the faith as well. He would have a priest come to Dodger games on Sundays to offer mass for Catholic players.
Tommy Lasorda | Family
Lawton married Rosaleen May Kavanagh in January 1941; the marriage bore one child, Amanda. Rosaleen never watched Lawton play football during their ten-year marriage. Divorce was granted with a decree nisi in March 1951 after Rosaleen was found to have committed adultery with Notts County director Adrian Van Geffen; Lawton never saw Amanda again and was not required to pay child support. He would not hear from his daughter until she was convicted of stealing from playwright George Axelrod in 1968, by which time Rosaleen was on her fourth marriage and living in Jamaica. Lawton married second wife Gladys Rose in September 1952, who bore him a son, Thomas Junior.
Tommy Lawton | Personal life
He was married to actress Lorella De Luca.
Duccio Tessari | Introduction
Shula is Catholic and is married to Shari Shula. They have three daughters: Samantha, Brooke, and Ryan Lucy.
Mike Shula | Personal life
Thigpen graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of North Carolina in 1993. He is married to the former Jacinda Webb and the couple have two daughters.
Tommy Thigpen | Personal life
Having graduated from the Grafton Academy of Dress Designing, she went to Paris in 1951 to study an academy there. She then spent six months training in the salon and workrooms of Jacques Heim. Neillí married Tommy Bacon, a Dublin solicitor, on 28 April 1956. The couple had seven daughters.
Neillí Mulcahy | Family and education
In 1946, she married Dr. Carvel James, a Beverly Hills physician.
Norma Talmadge | Retirement
Restivo is from Toledo, OH. He graduated with a degree in Kinesiology.
Tommy Restivo | Personal life
Tommy likes to drive pickup trucks as his personal vehicle including a mid 90s Ford F-150, a new Cadillac Escalade (briefly, after being given it as a gift by Jimmy's widow Sheila), and a Dodge Ram 1500. Tommy has also shown skill in hand-to-hand combat and firearms usage. Tommy is married to his high school sweetheart Janet Gavin, who became pregnant with their oldest daughter, Colleen, when she was only seventeen. The two are "separated" numerous times, but the announcement is occasionally followed by Tommy stating that they never filed for divorce, making the couple technically still married throughout the entire series.
Tommy Gavin | Biography
Harvey is married to Major League Soccer assistant coach Renato Capobianco.
Mary Harvey | Personal life
In 1920, Farrell was hired to do a dance routine at a Navy benefit ball in San Diego. There she met her first husband, Thomas Richards. They were married from 1921 to 1929. Their son, actor Tommy Farrell, was born in 1921. In 1931, she was engaged to Jack Durant of the comedy duo "Mitchell and Durant" but never married him. She dated screenwriter Robert Riskin a few years later. In 1941, Farrell married Dr. Henry Ross. The couple met when Farrell sprained her ankle during a performance of the play "Separate Rooms" and was treated backstage by Ross, who had been called forth from the audience.
Glenda Farrell | Personal life
Francis Kelly whom she eventually married.
Angelita Castro-Kelly | Introduction
Sullivan is married to legal scholar Douglas Laycock.
Teresa A. Sullivan | Personal life
In October 2011, Cantone married his partner of 20 years, musical theater director Jerry Dixon. The ceremony was officiated by pastor Jay Bakker.
Mario Cantone | Personal life
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Tommy Rainone | Professional career
In 1873 she married the English actor, John Clarke. Her premature death at the age of 32 led to his breakdown and he died less than two years later.
Teresa Furtado | Introduction
I do have a strong point of view, and there are certain things I explore over and over again in my shows, because there are things I’m working through as an artist."
Liesl Tommy | Career
Noonan was married five times. His last wife was actress Carole Langley whose stage name was Pocahontas Crowfoot. They were married 16 years and had four children. Noonan also had a daughter from his first marriage and son from his second marriage.
Tommy Noonan | Personal life
She is married to Tom L. Milligan.
Nancy McCampbell Grace | Professional accomplishments
Savagnone was married to voice actor Ferruccio Amendola until 1971. They had three children including actor Claudio Amendola. She was also married to playwright Manlio Santanelli but that marriage also ended in divorce.
Rita Savagnone | Personal life
He played one season for the Bills before leaving football.
Tommy Colella | Professional career
From 1955 onwards, she also became a central figure in the early Italian television, as a hostess and soubrette in a number of variety shows. De Mola and Rascel obtained the Roman Rota's annulment of marriage in 1963, and De Mola remarried in 1971.
Tina De Mola | Life and career
The couple had originally planned the wedding for October 5, but were forced to reschedule due to the Cardinals' participation in the 2019 National League Division Series.
Tommy Edman | Personal life
After a year of being married, they divorced in 2017.
Daniella Mastricchio | Personal Life
She retired from show business in 1928, when she married her second husband.
Mabel Withee | Career
Young has been married to his wife Pam for over forty years. They have six children and two grandchildren. Young has two twin brothers. He has expressed support for the Crockett Foundation which was founded by Jim Crockett Sr. in 1931 to support US military veterans.
Tommy Young | Personal life
He married his wife, Judi, in 2002.
John Pallone | Introduction
In 1981, Versace married Christiana Cavalli. The couple had two children, Francesca Christiana and Antonio Tina Santo. The marriage ended in divorce in 2004. Versace remarried in 2014 to lawyer Francesca de Stefano, with whom he had one daughter, Ramona Francesca.
Santo Versace | Personal life
In 1908 she married the actor Antonio Greco and they had a son, Ruggero. Antonio died in 1913, at 29. In 1920 she had a daughter, Anna, with the actor and producer Luigi Mottura, who was 12 years younger. The two never married.
Paola Pezzaglia | Personal life
Dunlop later married the Argentine novelist Julio Cortázar. Dolce attended Ohio University, majoring in Architecture, from 1965–67, before deciding to become a professional musician.
Joe Dolce | Biography
Richardson is married to Terri, with whom he has three daughters and six grandchildren.
Tommy Rich | Personal life
Madelaynne started playing basketball at school. She is married and has a son.
Madelaynne Montaño | Personal life
On 27 January 2010, Haas became a United States citizen, but continued to represent Germany in tennis. Haas married actress Sara Foster in 2010. They have two daughters. Haas is the son-in-law of David Foster.
Tommy Haas | Personal life
Distributors, where eventually he became the local promotions representative.
Tommy LiPuma | Career
Rivera is of Irish-Sicilian ancestry. She was married in 1991 to the British session keyboardist Tommy Eyre. The marriage lasted until his death in 2001.
Scarlet Rivera | Personal life
At one point in 1996, Morrison was married to two women at the same time: Dawn Freeman and Dawn Gilbert. Morrison had one child by age 19. Tommy and Trisha Morrison were engaged in 2009 and married in 2011.
Tommy Morrison | Personal life
She married in 2011 with a businessman whom she had 2 daughters, they later divorced. In 2016 she married jeweler Emiliano Suárez.
Carola Baleztena | Personal life
Carmen wanted to be a chef, but she became an actress. She married very young, but she is either divorced or separated from her husband.
Carmen Becerra | Personal life
Hardy married the architect Tiziana Spadea in 1965. They had two children.
Hugh Hardy | Personal life
Saunders first married the television director Arthur Rue "Tommy" Thompson (1927-2000). Saunders said that she likely would not have gone into television acting had it not been for her accident, and she would not have met Thompson had she not gone into television. The couple divorced in 1956, with a two-year-old child. She subsequently married a man named Maier.
Gloria Saunders | Personal life
While working as an organizer for the ILGWU in 1957, Aileen Hernandez married Alfonso Hernandez, a garment cutter. Their marriage ended in 1961, the same year that she received her master's degree, summa cum laude, in government.
Aileen Hernandez | Personal life
After graduating from college, Little taught high school in Oregon. After marrying Brad Little in 1978, she became a homemaker. During her husband's career in politics, Little has served on many non-profit boards, including Idaho Public Television. She has also acted as an informal advisor to her husband.
Teresa Little | Career
Matilde grew up in a household that did not support her decision to become a filmmaker. This created a very strong conflict that damaged her family ties. During one of her interviews, however, she talks about how this was resolved one Christmas where she visited her family during the holidays. In 1933, Landeta married a colonel from Sonora who went by the name of Martín Toscano Rodríguez. When Martín proposed, she made it clear that she had a commitment to her career as a filmmaker to which the colonel claimed to have no issues with. They got divorced 10 years later because Landeta expressed no wish to have a family with her husband.
Matilde Landeta | Personal life
He is married with two children.
Joe Hortua | Introduction
Ruiz was married to Julio Marino, a doctor, with whom she had two children. She did work with the human rights group Consiencia. In her later years she suffered from Alzheimer's Disease.
Chela Ruiz | Personal life
He is married to Tanika Haggan who was a volleyball player at Mississippi State and also served as a business education teacher and volleyball coach at Rowlett High School in Rowlett, Texas.
Mario Haggan | Personal
Scarbath is married to wife Marilyn, a former Maryland cheerleader. The College Football Hall of Fame inducted Scarbath in 1983, and the University of Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame inducted him in 1984.
Jack Scarbath | Professional career
Vardell is married to Andrea Marie Cummings, with whom he has two children, Colton and Grace. They reside in the Bay Area. Vardell was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity at Stanford. In 1991 he was named Sigma Nu National Athlete of the Year.
Tommy Vardell | Personal life
After retiring, Barila became a FIFA agent, also holding a degree in law.
Sergio Barila | Personal life
Mottola was born in Augusta, Georgia and grew up in Pembroke Pines, Florida. When Mottola signed with the Reds in 1992, he bought his parents a house. Mottola's father, Chuck, died of a heart attack at the age of 50 in October 1995. His mother, Elaine, works as an administrative assistant at St. Bernadette's School in Davie, Florida. Mottola met his wife, Emily, at UCF. She played for the school's volleyball team. They had their first son, Luke in 2005.
Chad Mottola | Personal life
She married coach Bruno Napolitano.
Jana Senkova | Family
Dastis is married to a lawyer. He is a keen golfer.
Alfonso Dastis | Personal life