Beverly Van Zile- Everything About Buzz Aldrin's ex-wife

May 2024 · 4 minute read

Beverly Van Zile is the ex-wife of Buzz Aldrin. Beverly Van Zile’s ex-husband Aldrin is an American former astronaut, engineer, and fighter pilot. As the pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, he performed three spacewalks. He and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two people to land on the Moon as the Lunar Module Eagle pilots on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.

Beverly Van Zile- Bio Summary

Full NameBeverly Van Zile
Birth NameBeverly Ilene Handelsman
famous asEx-wife of Buzz Aldrin
Age73 years old as of 2022 at the time of her death
Date of BirthNovember 11, 1930
Place of BirthSan Francisco, California, USA
Date of deathApril 14, 2004
place of deathLos Angeles, California.
Zodiac signScorpio
NationalityAmerican
EthnicityCaucasian
SpousesDr. Albert J. Sheade (5 January 1985 – 14 April 2004)  (her death)
Buzz Aldrin (19 December 1975 – 10 April 1978)  (divorced)
Calvin Arthur Van Zile (18 January 1956 – October 1973)  (divorced)  (2 children)
Milton Pastornak (19 February 1949 – 8 April 1952)  (divorced)  (2 children)

Beverly Van Zile was born on November 11, 1930, to her parents in San Francisco, California, USA. Her Zodiac sign was Scorpio. She was famous for being the wife of Buzz Aldrin. Zile dead at the age of 73 in Los Angeles California.

Career

According to her IMBD profile, Zile is known for the TV series  Tattletales (1974). Tattletales is a 30 minutes Tv series about celebrities & their spouses, playing for sections of the studio audience, trying to match answers to questions about their personal lives. The show had about 500 episodes.

How did Beverly Van Zile and Buzz Aldrin meet?

There isn’t much information available giving details of how the two former couples met and started their relationship. However, they got married on December 31, 1975, in a beautiful ceremony in the presence of their loved ones. Beverly is the second woman Aldrin got married to. He is also the third man she also got married to. Before Aldrin, Beverly was married to Milton Pastornak. They tied the knot on 19 February 1949 and called their marriage a quit on 8 April 1952. The couple had 2 children together.

Beverly Van Zile got married to Calvin Arthur Van Zile from 18 January 1956 – October 1973. They also had two children before ending their marriage. Beverly moved on and tied the knot with Buzz Aldrin, their marriage also didn’t last. They called their marriage a quit on 10 April 1978 after being married for 2 years. She finally got married to Dr. Albert J. Sheade on 5 January 1985 until her death on 14 April 2004.

Before his marriage to Beverly, he was married to Joan Archer who was his wife when he went to the moon. Joan shared her experience of being the wife of the second man to step on the moon.

After he divorced Beverly, Buzz Aldrin also moved on to a new relationship and marriage. He got married to Lois Driggs Cannon. They stayed married for more than two decades before calling their marriage a quit in a settlement that included 50 percent of their $475,000 bank account, and $9,500 a month plus 30 percent of his annual income, estimated at more than $600,000 according to Aldrin’s Wikipedia.

The Blast also reports that Beverly Van Zile’s ex-husband, Aldrin has been going through another legal battle with his family as he sues two of his children, as well as a former business manager, for allegedly misusing his credit cards and transferring his money without his permission.

Aldrin, claims that his son Andrew refuses to notify him about pending or future business transactions, removes large sums of money from his accounts, and continues to represent him financially and socially, despite the fact that Aldrin has repeatedly asked him to stop. He also claims that his daughter Janice also used his credit cards without permission.

Andrew and Janice argue with the former business manager, Christina Korp, that Aldrin is mentally impaired through dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Aldrin alleges that the three slandered him with those claims. Most recently, Aldrin’s attorney filed documents earlier this month requesting to withdraw from the case.

The situation ended when his children withdrew their petition and he dropped the lawsuit in March 2019, several months before the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. Beverly Van Zile gained much fame after her marriage to the famous former astronaut Buzz Aldrin but their marriage did last long.

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