Alana Stewart, His First Wife, Carried Private Pain Into Hollywood
Alana Stewart, born Alana Kaye Collins in San Diego on May 18, 1945, endured abandonment, poverty, and an unstable childhood in rural Texas. She escaped to New York, became a Ford model, and built an acting career that included "Evel Knievel," "Night Call Nurses," and "Delivered."
She married actor George Hamilton in 1972 before marrying Stewart in 1979. Their glamorous life included famous friends and lavish travel, but she later acknowledged that she was deeply unhappy.
American actor George Hamilton and his former wife, American actress and model Alana Stewart, attend a birthday party for Carole Bayer Sager at Asylum restaurant in Beverly Hills, California, on March 8, 1991. | Source: Getty Images
American dancer Altovise Davis, American actor George Hamilton, and his wife, American actress Alana Hamilton, attend an event in the United States, circa 1973. | Source: Getty Images
"I was expecting a man or the marriage to make me happy when it was really up to me to deal with what I had been holding deep inside me," she told CBS12. "Happiness is an inside job, isn't it?"
Her memoir, "Rearview Mirror", addressed her marriages, bulimia, depression, sexual assault, family addiction, and the death of her best friend, Farrah Fawcett, from anal cancer in 2009.
American actress and model Alana Stewart and her husband, British singer and songwriter Rod Stewart, attend an event together, circa 1983. | Source: Getty Images
British singer and songwriter Rod Stewart and his partner, American actress Alana Hamilton, attend Rod's 34th birthday celebration at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City on January 10, 1979. | Source: Getty Images
The actress now runs the Farrah Fawcett Foundation and identifies herself on social media first and foremost as a mother to Ashley Hamilton, Kimberly Stewart, and Sean Stewart.
Alana Stewart shares a throwback photo featuring Elton John, his former wife Renate Blauel, and her children Sean Stewart, Kimberly Stewart, and Ashley Hamilton on August 7, 2026. | Source: Instagram/alanakstewart
Kelly Emberg and the $25 Million Claim
Model and actress Kelly Emberg was born in Houston, Texas, on July 2, 1959. Her screen credits include "Portfolio," "Dumb Luck in Vegas," and "Art Be Damned!" Emberg met Stewart in 1983, and the two were living together by 1985. Their relationship ended in 1990 after they had welcomed their daughter, Ruby Stewart.
