Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart person ne'er revealed however they archetypal connected, though Dane admitted it's "probably 1 of the slightest absorbing stories successful the world."

"It went fundamentally similar this: 'You wanna spell out?'" helium recalled to Flaunt mag successful 2008. "'Yeah, sure.' Ten months later, we were married."

After Dane announced helium was leaving the TNT play The Last Ship due to his conflict with depression, Gayheart took to Instagram to amusement her enactment for her husband.

"Way backmost erstwhile I met my Monday antheral crush," Gayheart captioned a throwback photograph of the couple. 

Gayheart cited "irreconcilable differences" arsenic the origin of the couple's divided and sought spousal enactment and associated ineligible and carnal custody of their daughters Billie and Georgia when she filed for divorce. 

"After 14 years unneurotic we person decided that ending our matrimony is the champion determination for our family," the duo said successful a associated connection to E! News astatine the time. "We volition proceed our relationship and enactment arsenic a squad to co-parent our 2 beauteous girls arsenic they are the astir important happening successful the satellite to us."

However, the divorcement was ne'er finalized, and Dane revealed that the brace were inactive friends and "great" co-parents when he told Entertainment Tonight in 2019, "We person 2 kids. It's not complicated...it doesn't person to be."

One decennary aft the mates made headlines erstwhile a nude video with erstwhile Miss Teen USA Kari Ann Peniche was published online, Dane addressed the ungraded successful a uncommon interview. 

"I often deliberation astir that reply I gave. And looking backmost now, was it a mistake? Absolutely not," helium told Glamour of antecedently describing the incidental arsenic a misstep. "Three consenting adults, 1 of them being my wife? I wasn't doing thing wrong."

He added that his erstwhile comments were "most apt referring to the cause usage that was alluded to successful the video."

"And was that a mistake? Again, I don't needfully deliberation I was breaking immoderate laws and corrupting anybody," the Grey's Anatomy alum said. "We were conscionable 3 radical taking a bath."

"I didn't regret it, I person nary regrets nor bash I marque immoderate apologies for my beingness experience," helium concluded. "It's my beingness acquisition and I'm astatine bid with each of it."

After the portion was published successful 2009, the mates was forced to instrumentality action, and arsenic a result, Dane and Gayheart filed a $1 cardinal copyright infringement against Gawker Media and reportedly settled for upwards of six-figures. 

The brace archetypal sparked rumors of a reconciliation erstwhile they jetted disconnected to Europe arsenic a household of four. The Jawbreaker histrion shared snaps from the travel showing Dane making a silly look astatine the camera with their girls.

"This is us," Gayheart captioned the Instagram post. "Family vacay 2022."

In a 2nd pic from their European adventures, the foursome posed unneurotic with large smiles connected the Parisian streets, arsenic she wrote connected the 'gram, "A pit halt successful Paris!"

The radical past made their mode crossed the seashore to St. Tropez, with Gayheart documenting their travel connected her Instagram Stories. "My people," she captioned a drawback of the fam with a friend. 

January 2023

While she filed for divorcement successful 2018, Dane and Gayheart kicked off the New Year as 1 large family.

The Euphoria actor and the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum were photographed walking hand-in-hand disconnected a vessel unneurotic during a abrogation with their 2 daughters.

March 2025