Editing Mary Tyler Moore (section)

==Personal life==
At age 18 in 1955, Moore married her next-door neighbor, 28-year-old cranberry juice salesman Richard Meeker,<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=55–65}}</ref> and within six weeks she was pregnant with her only child, Richard Carleton Meeker Jr., born on July 3, 1956.<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|p=65}}</ref> Meeker and Moore divorced in 1962.<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=59–95}}</ref> Later that year, Moore married [[Grant Tinker]], a [[CBS]] executive and later chairman of NBC, and in 1969 they formed the television production company [[MTM Enterprises]],<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=141–144}}</ref> which created and produced the company's first television series, ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show''. After a 1973 breakup and patch-up, Moore and Tinker announced a permanent separation in 1979<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/185369279/|title=Mary Tyler Moore, Husband Split Up|newspaper=[[Philadelphia Daily News]]|date=December 29, 1979}}</ref> and divorced two years later.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://people.com/archive/cover-story-behind-her-smile-vol-44-no-18/|title=Cover Story: Behind Her Smile|volume=44|issue=18|date=October 30, 1995|magazine=People|access-date=February 15, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/T/htmlT/tinkergrant/tinkergrant.htm |title=Tinker, Grant|publisher=The Museum of Broadcast Communications |website=Museum.tv |access-date=August 14, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070207125256/http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/T/htmlT/tinkergrant/tinkergrant.htm |archive-date=February 7, 2007 }}</ref> In the early 1980s, Moore dated [[Steve Martin]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/387830750/|title=Star tracks|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=December 27, 1982}}</ref> and [[Warren Beatty]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/video/watch/eminent-domains-the-san-remo|title=The San Remo: Diane Keaton, Mary Tyler Moore, and Warren Beatty Former Residents|magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|date=August 21, 2013}}</ref> Another relationship, with [[Michael Lindsay-Hogg]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/style/michael-lindsay-hogg-beatles.html |title= Directing the Beatles Was Just One Part of His Long and Winding Career |last=<!--Alex Williams--> |date= July 11, 2022|website= www.nytimes.com|access-date=February 27, 2024 |quote=}}</ref> ended when she wanted to be exclusive and he did not.<ref>''Being Mary Tyler Moore'' (2023, dir. James Adolphus). HBO.</ref>

On October 14, 1980, Moore's son Richard died of an accidental gunshot to the head while handling a small [[.410 bore|.410]] shotgun. He was 24 years old.<ref>Although some say "accidental" the evidence overwhelmingly pointed to suicide.  sources:
* {{cite web|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/mary-tyler-moore-recalled-sons-accidental-death-at-24-in-memoir-w463205|title=Mary Tyler Moore Recalled Son's Accidental Death at 24 in Memoir|work=usmagazine.com|date=January 26, 2017|access-date=February 15, 2017}}
* {{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/10/16/actress-son-dies/561e4442-fe8d-4cdc-94bc-677ee215e477/|title=Actress' Son Dies|date=October 16, 1980|access-date=February 15, 2017|via=washingtonpost.com}}
* {{cite magazine|url=http://people.com/celebrity/mary-tyler-moore-son-richie-death/|title=How Mary Tyler Moore Was Forever Changed by the Death of Her 24-Year-Old Son: 'I Screamed at the Sky'|date=January 25, 2017|magazine=People|access-date=February 15, 2017}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.nylonrifles.com/wp/2013/11/charming-snakes-with-lead/|title=Charming Snakes with Lead|date=November 20, 2013|work=nylonrifles.com|access-date=February 15, 2017|archive-date=February 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215214920/http://www.nylonrifles.com/wp/2013/11/charming-snakes-with-lead/|url-status=usurped}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/10/18/Mary-Tyler-Moores-son-eulogized-at-funeral/5888340689600/|title=Mary Tyler Moore's son eulogized at funeral|work=upi.com|access-date=February 15, 2017}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/10/17/A-distraught-Mary-Tyler-Moore-made-final-preparations-Friday/5838340603200/|title=A distraught Mary Tyler Moore made final preparations Friday...|work=upi.com|access-date=February 15, 2017}}</ref><ref name=nationalledger>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=29&num=22499 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121211050025/http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=29&num=22499 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 11, 2012 |title=Mary Tyler Moore Opens Up on Grief, Alcohol |last1=Beck |first1=Marilyn |last2=Jenel |first2=Stacy |date=September 8, 2008 |publisher=The National Ledger |access-date=February 9, 2017 }}</ref> The same model was later taken off the market because of its "hair trigger".<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=237–240}}</ref> Three-and-a-half weeks earlier, ''[[Ordinary People]]'' had been released where she played a mother who was grieving over the accidental death of her son.

A 47-year-old Moore married 29-year-old cardiologist Robert Levine on November 23, 1983, at the [[Pierre Hotel]] in New York City.<ref>''The New York Times'', "Mary Tyler Moore Is Wed", November 24, 1983, p. C12.</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hines |first=Ree |date=February 1, 2017 |title=Mary Tyler Moore's husband opens up: 'To see her smile that smile, just once more' |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/mary-tyler-moore-s-husband-opens-see-her-smile-smile-t107669 |access-date=January 29, 2023 |work=[[Today (American TV program)|Today]]}}</ref> They met in 1982 when he treated Moore's mother in New York City on a weekend house call, after Moore and her mother returned from a visit to the Vatican where they had a personal audience with [[Pope John Paul II]].<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|2009|pp=47–49}}</ref> Moore and Levine remained married for 34 years until her death in 2017.<ref>Corinthios, Aurelie (January 26, 2017) [https://people.com/celebrity/mary-tyler-moore-husband-robert-levine-love-story/ "Inside Mary Tyler Moore's 33-Year Love Story with Robert Levine, Who Stayed by Her Side in Her Final Hours"] ''[[People (magazine)|People]]''</ref>

Moore was an [[alcohol addiction|alcoholic]] much of her life but quit drinking in 1984 when she admitted herself into the [[Betty Ford Center]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Andrews |first=Travis M. |title='I'd gone over an edge': Mary Tyler Moore shared her joy but also her deep lifelong pain |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/26/id-gone-over-an-edge-mary-tyler-moore-shared-her-joy-but-also-her-deep-lifelong-pain/ |access-date=January 29, 2023 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=January 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170128115821/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/26/id-gone-over-an-edge-mary-tyler-moore-shared-her-joy-but-also-her-deep-lifelong-pain/ |archive-date= January 28, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Bradley |first=Nina |title=MTM Was Bravely Honest About Her Alcoholism |url=https://www.bustle.com/p/mary-tyler-moores-honesty-about-her-struggles-with-alcoholism-prove-just-how-brave-she-was-33196 |access-date=January 29, 2023 |work=[[Bustle (magazine)|Bustle]] |date=January 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928194253/https://www.bustle.com/p/mary-tyler-moores-honesty-about-her-struggles-with-alcoholism-prove-just-how-brave-she-was-33196 |archive-date= September 28, 2022}}</ref><ref name=nationalledger/> One year after getting sober, she quit her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit.<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1995|pp=291–92}}</ref>