Bannon has been married and divorced three times. He has three adult daughters. His first marriage was to Cathleen Suzanne Houff.
[249] Bannon and Houff had a daughter, Maureen, in 1988 and subsequently divorced.
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Bannon's second marriage was to Mary Louise Piccard, a former investment banker, in April 1995. Their twin daughters were born three days after the wedding. Piccard filed for dissolution of their marriage in 1997.
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Bannon was charged with misdemeanor
domestic violence,
battery, and dissuading a witness in early January 1996 after Piccard accused Bannon of domestic abuse. The charges were later dropped when Piccard did not appear in court.
[253] In an article in
The New York Times Piccard stated her absence was due to threats made to her by Bannon and his lawyer:
Mr. Bannon, she said, told her that "if I went to court, he and his attorney would make sure that I would be the one who was guilty" ... Mr. Bannon's lawyer, she said, "threatened me," telling her that if Mr. Bannon went to jail, she "would have no money and no way to support the children." ... Mr. Bannon's lawyer ... denied pressuring her not to testify.
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Piccard and Bannon divorced in 1997. During the divorce proceedings, Piccard alleged that Bannon had made
antisemitic remarks about her choice of schools, saying he did not want to send his children to
The Archer School for Girls because there were too many Jews at the school, and Jews raise their children to be "whiny brats." Bannon's spokesperson denied the accusation, noting that he had chosen to send both his children to the Archer School.
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Bannon's third marriage was to Diane Clohesy; they married in 2006 and divorced in 2009.
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