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== Personal life == Fonda was married three times, he married his first wife Susan Brewer in 1961; together they had three children, [[Bridget Fonda|Bridget]], Justin & Thomas McGuane (step son).<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2019-08-16/peter-fonda-dead|title=Peter Fonda, the 'Easy Rider' star and counterculture icon, has died at 79|date=August 16, 2019|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> They divorced in 1974 after 13 years of marriage.<ref name="auto"/> Fonda married his second wife Portia Rebecca Crockett, in 1975.<ref name="auto"/> The marriage lasted for 36 years until they divorced in 2011.<ref name="auto"/> Fonda married his third wife Margaret DeVogelaere, in 2011.<ref name="auto"/> The marriage lasted for eight years until Fonda's death in 2019.<ref name="auto"/> === Political views === In 2011, Fonda and [[Tim Robbins]] produced ''[[The Big Fix (2012 film)|The Big Fix]]'', a documentary that examined the role of [[BP]] in the [[Deepwater Horizon oil spill]] and its effects on the [[Gulf of Mexico]]. At a press conference at the [[Cannes Film Festival]], Fonda stated that he had written to President [[Barack Obama]] about the spill and criticized him as a "fucking traitor" for allowing "foreign boots on our soil telling our military—in this case the [[United States Coast Guard|Coast Guard]]—what they can and could not do, and telling us, the citizens of the United States, what we could or could not do.{{'"}}<ref>{{Cite web|first = Jen|last = Yamato|url = http://www.movieline.com/2011/05/peter-fonda-bashes-president-obama-in-cannes-you-are-a-f-traitor.php|title = Peter Fonda Bashes President Obama in Cannes: 'You are a F*cking Traitor'|work = MovieLine|date = May 19, 2011|access-date = July 18, 2011|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110819112640/http://www.movieline.com/2011/05/peter-fonda-bashes-president-obama-in-cannes-you-are-a-f-traitor.php|archive-date = August 19, 2011|url-status = dead}}</ref> In June 2018, Fonda went on [[Twitter]] to criticize President [[Donald Trump]]'s administration's enforcement of U.S. immigration policy by [[Jeff Sessions]] for separating children from their parents at the Mexican border, writing that "We should rip Barron Trump from the arms of First Lady [[Melania Trump]] and put him in a cage with [[pedophilia|pedophiles]]."<ref name="CNNTweet">{{Cite news|first=Sophie|last=Tatum|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/politics/peter-fonda-baron-trump-secret-service/index.html|title=Secret Service notified after Peter Fonda's obscene tweet about Barron Trump|work=CNN|date=June 21, 2018|access-date=June 22, 2018}}</ref> He also suggested that Americans should seek out names of [[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] agents in order to protest outside of their homes and the schools of their children.<ref>{{Cite news |first = Greg|last=Price|url = http://www.newsweek.com/peter-fonda-barron-trump-melania-986369 |title = Peter Fonda Slammed for 'Ripping Barron Trump' From Melania Tweet and Other Violent, Disturbing Posts |work = [[Newsweek]]|location=New York City|date = June 20, 2018}}</ref> The [[United States Secret Service|Secret Service]] opened an investigation based on a report from the Trump family.<ref name="CNNTweet"/> Huckabee's daughter, White House Press Secretary, [[Sarah Huckabee Sanders]], was also the object of Fonda's [[Tweets (Twitter)|tweets]], in which he suggested that "Maybe we should take her (Sanders') children away..."<ref name="KCS">{{Cite news|url=http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article213532434.html|title=Peter Fonda movie boycott part of Barron Trump tweet backlash|last=Gutierrez|first=Lisa|date=June 20, 2018|work=[[The Kansas City Star]]}}</ref> In another later deleted tweet, Fonda targeted [[United States Department of Homeland Security]] Secretary [[Kirstjen Nielsen]] by calling her a "vulgar" name and calling for Nielsen to be "put in a cage and poked at by passersby ..."<ref name="KCS"/> Fonda stated that he deleted his tweet regarding Barron Trump, saying that he "immediately regretted it and sincerely apologize to the family for what I said and any hurt my words have caused."<ref name="CNNTweet"/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/peter-fonda-apologizes-for-vulgar-remarks-made-about-donald-trumps-son|title=Peter Fonda apologizes for vulgar remarks made about Donald Trump's son|first=Tyler|last=McCarthy|date=June 20, 2018|work=Fox News}}</ref> Backlash to Fonda's tweets resulted in a call for a boycott of his newest film, ''[[Boundaries (2018 film)|Boundaries]]'', and other Sony projects.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article213532434.html|title=Peter Fonda apologizes for Barron Trump tweet that sparked movie boycott and scorn|work=The Kansas City Star|access-date=June 22, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article213532434.html|title=Peter Fonda apologizes for Barron Trump tweet that sparked movie boycott and scorn|work=The Miami Herald|access-date=June 22, 2018}}</ref> Sony Pictures released ''Boundaries'' as planned on June 22, 2018,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2018/06/peter-fonda-apologizes-threatening-trump-tweet-melania-secret-service-1202414611/|title=Sony Pictures Classics Calls Peter Fonda Tweet "Abhorrent" But Will Open 'Boundaries' As Scheduled – Update|last=Petski|first=Denise|date=June 20, 2018|work=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=June 22, 2018}}</ref> but released a statement stating that Fonda's comments "are abhorrent, reckless and dangerous, and we condemn them completely."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2018/politics/news/peter-fonda-trump-1202852965/|title=Sony Pictures Classics Condemns Peter Fonda's Tweet but Won't Pull His Movie|last=Johnson|first=Ted|work=Variety|date=June 20, 2018}}</ref>
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