Claudine Longet married "Moon River" crooner Andy Williams in December 1961 — the same year the movie adaptation of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" came out and popularized his signature tune.
When Longet and Williams met, she was a teenage Las Vegas showgirl. According to GQ, there have been conflicting reports about their first meeting, including one involving Williams coming to Longet's rescue in a limo after her car broke down on the Las Vegas strip and another in which Williams claimed to remember seeing Longet roller-skating near Paris' Louvre Museum a decade prior. But it has been most widely reported that the pair met while Longet was dancing at the Tropicana casino in 1960.
"Unlike most girls, who liked to unwind after the midnight show," Longet once said (via GQ), "I went straight back to my apartment, to wake up in good shape to go skiing. I fell in love with Andy through sport."
The couple went on to have three children in the '60s, but their marriage had reportedly fallen apart by the end of the decade, per Aspen Times, and they separated shortly thereafter. Longet moved to Aspen, Colorado, in the early '70s, and her divorce from Williams was finalized in 1975. Still, the two remained close friends until his death in 2012.
"They had a great relationship," their son, Bobby, said (via GQ). "[As a child] I said, 'Boy, I'm glad my parents aren't divorced.' And they were."
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