Editing Freddie Prinze (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:Freddie Prinze Tony Orlando Chico and the Man 1976.JPG|thumb|right|Prinze (right) with [[Tony Orlando]] on ''[[Chico and the Man]]'', 1976]]
On October 13, 1975, Prinze married Katherine "Kathy" Elaine (Barber) Cochran, with whom he had one child, son [[Freddie Prinze Jr.]], who was born March 8, 1976. Prinze was arrested for [[driving under the influence]] of [[methaqualone|Quaalude]] on November 16, 1976. A few weeks later his wife filed for divorce.

Prinze had been romantically linked to actresses [[Raquel Welch]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GrIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22|title=People Are Talking About|work=Jet|date=March 6, 1975}}</ref> and [[Pam Grier]], whom he met in 1973.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/books/05grier.html|title=Pam Grier's Collection of Lessons Learned|last=Lee|first=Felicia R.|date=May 4, 2010|website=New York Times}}</ref> Grier recalls their relationship in chapter nineteen of her memoir, ''My Life in Three Acts''.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=Foxy: My Life in Three Acts|last=Grier|first=Pam|publisher=Springboard|year=2010|isbn=978-0-446-54850-2|url=https://archive.org/details/foxymylifeinthre00grie}}</ref> After his break-up with Grier, Prinze dated actress [[Lonette McKee]] for a time during 1976.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8hhYzd9-ZI0C&q=Lonette+McKee+Freddie+Prinze&pg=PT213|title=Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World that Made Him|first1=David|last1=Henry|first2=Joe|last2=Henry|date=November 5, 2013|publisher=Algonquin Books|isbn=978-1-61620-271-2|via=Google Books}}</ref> Prinze also dated [[Joanna Kerns]] a short time before he died.  The two had worked together on the 1976 TV movie ''[[The Million Dollar Rip-Off]]''.<ref>{{cite web | title = The Talk|work=Readable |url=http://www.allreadable.com/a6ddMS3s}}</ref>

Prinze was very close friends with singer [[Tony Orlando]];<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www1.cbn.com/music/tony-orlando%27s-brush-with-death |title=Tony Orlando's Brush With Death |website=[[Christian Broadcasting Network]] |first=Scott |last=Ross |access-date=March 29, 2018}}</ref> Orlando appeared on ''Chico and the Man'', and Prinze appeared on Orlando's variety show.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://filmthreat.com/uncategorized/the-bootleg-files-chico-and-the-man/ |title=The Bootleg Files: Chico and the Man |website=filmthreat.com |date=October 31, 2014 |access-date=March 29, 2018}}</ref> As he started to make more money, Prinze took [[martial arts]] lessons from [[Robert Wall]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18735185/marilyn_beck_column/ |title=Marilyn Beck (column) |first=Marilyn |last=Beck |newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |page=110 |date=December 10, 1975 |access-date=March 29, 2018 |via=newspaper.com}}</ref> a student of [[Bruce Lee]], who appeared in ''[[Enter the Dragon]]'' and ''[[The Way of the Dragon]]''. Soon after, Wall became godfather to Prinze's newborn son.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18735159/martial_arts_master_went_toe_to_toe/ |title=Martial arts master went toe to toe with greatest |newspaper=[[Albuquerque Journal]] |page=48 |date=August 5, 2011 |access-date=March 29, 2018 |via=newspaper.com}}</ref>