Susan Lessons Dullea: Where is Don Meredith and  Keir Dullea’s wife now?

Susan Lessons Dullea is the ex-wife of iconic Hollywood actor Keir Dullea and the wife of the late American football player, sports commentator, and actor Don Meredith. Meredith played as a quarterback for all nine seasons of his professional career with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. He was named to the Pro Bowl in each of his last three years as a player. Susan and Meredith were still married when he passed away in 2010. Who is Susan Lessons Dullea?

Susan Lessons Dullea: Bio Summary

Who is Susan Lessons Dullea?

Susan Lessons Dullea was born on 24 August 1942 in the United States of America per Findagrave. She was an American Publicist. She is very famous for her two marriages. Susan was the second woman Actor Keir Dullea took to the altar. Dullea is famous for playing astronaut David Bowman in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and its 1984 sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact. His other film roles include David and Lisa (1962), Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), and Black Christmas (1974).

The couple tied the knot in a beautiful wedding ceremony in 1969 in the presence of their friends, families, and loved ones. Susan and Dullea’s marriage was very short. The couple ended their marriage the following year in 1970. They didn’t have any children.

Susan Lessons Dullea and Don Meredith’s marriage

Meredith was married three times. His first wife was former SMU cheerleader Lynne Shamburger; they were married from 1959 to 1963 and had one daughter, Mary. From 1965 to 1971, he was married to the former Cheryl King, with whom he had a son Michael and a daughter Heather.

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He met his third wife, the former Susan Lessons Dullea (ex-wife of actor Keir Dullea), as they were both walking on Third Avenue in New York City. The couple tied the knot in 1972, two years after her marriage with Keir came to an end. Meredith and Susan Lessons stayed married until he died on December 5, 2010, at St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He was 72.

According to Courier-journal, after Don Meredith’s death control of his daughter Heather who was born with physical and intellectual disabilities’ affairs passed to the football star’s widow, Susan, his third wife and Heather’s stepmother. The Outlet revealed over the past year, alleged abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of Heather culminated in a court battle in Frankfort over control of Heather’s affairs, pitting Susan Meredith against Heather’s mother, Cheryl King, who was Don Meredith’s second wife. 

The months-long legal battle over Heather’s welfare came to a conclusion in 2018 per Courier-journal with a court settlement in which King replaced Heather’s stepmother as guardian and Susan Lessons Dullea agreed to add more than $1 million to Heather’s trust, which had less than $300,000 at the time.

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According to Courier-journal in December 2017, a state social services investigation found Susan Meredith had abused, neglected, and financially exploited Heather for actions including failing to ensure she received necessary dental care. The investigation also substantiated those findings against Lisa Moses, a Colorado lawyer and friend Susan Meredith added as Heather’s co-guardian in 2012.

The News Outlet revealed the state rescinded the findings in 2018 after Moore, a lawyer for Meredith and Moses, appealed to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, denying any wrongdoing. Both women had tried to get dental care for Heather and the cabinet’s findings against them are “not supported by the facts,” according to Moore’s letter, included in the records.