Where is Jacqueline Dena Guber now? Barbara Walters daughter lives a quiet life after DUI arrest
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: From ‘The View’ to ‘20/20’, the late Barbara Walters did it all to become a pioneering TV journalist, and went on to have a ground-breaking career. Unfortunately, the 93-year-old journalism legend died on December 30, 2022, after a brief battle with dementia. Walters undoubtedly carved an indelible niche for herself in her 50-year-long on-screen career that saw her hosting numerous television shows and interviewing an immeasurable number of celebrities.
With being one of the most loved celebrities, Walters was also a devoted mother to her only daughter Jacqueline Dena Guber. The late TV host and her second husband, Lee Guber, adopted Jacqueline (AKA Jackie) in 1968 after she suffered multiple miscarriages. During a 2014 interview on Oprah’s Master Class, Walters recalled, "We had dinner one night with a couple we rarely saw, and the woman said that she had a little girl who was blonde and blue-eyed, and they wanted to adopt a boy… who was going to be tall. They didn't want the girl. So, we said, 'We'll take the girl!'"
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Barbara Walters adopted daughter Jackie in 1968 the year I was working as her PA on the live radio show `Emphasis`. Married to producer Lee Guber at the time I can remember Walters complaining about never seeing Guber as she arose each morning at 4am to be at the studio on time. pic.twitter.com/0oCBmzKkSg
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'I was a runaway'
The mother-daughter pair is thought to have had a tumultuous relationship, but not one devoid of affection. Jacqueline previously revealed that she had a difficult time as a teenager as she struggled to fit in her mother’s glammed world. "I was a runaway. I loved to run. I thought running would solve all my problems. It was hard. I mean, I went to school with all these cute, small, little, you know, adorable girls that were four-foot-two. And you know, here I was, this big, gangly girl,” she told NBC in 2022. Jacqueline had also suffered from addiction from her early adolescence, which exacerbated her circumstances.
She previously admitted that her troubles "got bigger and bigger" and that she felt "more and more isolated from my mom's world." Things got tough for Jacqueline after Walters and Guber decided to divorce in 1976, ending their 13-year-long marriage. As time passed, Walters got even more involved in her decorated career and had very less time for her only daughter. In 2000, Jacqueline moved to Maine and soon married a wilderness guide named Mark Danforth. After her marriage, she founded New Horizons for Young Women, an adolescent female therapeutic program. But the program failed to survive the economic crisis and eventually got closed in 2008, according to The Things.
Why Jacqueline was arrested in 2013?
In 2013, Jacqueline again made headlines after she got arrested for a DUI in Naples, Florida when she traveled in a car with a male passenger, who was believed to be her boyfriend. However, after the arrest, Walters’ daughter disappeared into thin air. Now it has become challenging to even find a recent image of her because she was never one to attend gatherings and looks to be indifferent in popularity. The absence of information about her implies she chooses a peaceful life (in contrast to her late mother).
Being a single child, Jacqueline is said to have received an inheritance of her mother’s estate. As per Style Caster, Walters’ net worth was estimated to be $170 million at the time of her death. Before her death, Walters’ even transferred her Florida home into her daughter's name in 2016, but due to unknown reasons, in 2018, it was sold for $5.35 million. The reason for the transfer of assets is believed to be because of Walters' declining health.
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