Editing Steve McQueen (section)

==Personal life==
===Relationships and friendships===
[[File:Steve McQueen Neile Adams 1960.JPG|thumb|upright|McQueen and then-wife [[Neile Adams]] in the "[[Man from the South]]" episode of ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' (1960), also starring [[Peter Lorre]]]]
McQueen dated British-American actress [[Gia Scala]] whilst attending Stella Adler's school in New York.<ref name="GS1" />

On November 2, 1956, McQueen married Filipino actress and dancer [[Neile Adams]],<ref>{{cite magazine |date=June 1, 1963 |url=http://www.life.com/image/50545966/in-gallery/23302/steve-mcqueen-king-of-cool |title=Steve McQueen: King of Cool |magazine=[[Life (magazine)|Life]] |archive-date=May 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527204700/http://www.life.com/image/50545966/in-gallery/23302/steve-mcqueen-king-of-cool }}</ref> with whom he had a daughter named Terry Leslie (June 5, 1959 – March 19, 1998)<ref name="tcm">{{cite web |date=2009 |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=128731&apid=142719 |title=Biography for Steve McQueen |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |access-date=September 11, 2009 |archive-date=August 7, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100807025123/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=128731&apid=142719 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-mar-21-mn-31156-story.html |title=Terry McQueen; Daughter of Actor Owned Production Company |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=March 21, 1998 |access-date=April 3, 2016 |archive-date=April 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405065110/http://articles.latimes.com/1998/mar/21/news/mn-31156 |url-status=live }}</ref> and a son named [[Chad McQueen|Chad]] (December 28, 1960 – September 11, 2024).<ref name="Terrill 2020" />{{Rp|144}} McQueen and Adams divorced on March 14, 1972.<ref name="tcm" /> Chad became an actor and race car driver like his father.<ref>{{cite web |title=Terry Leslie McQueen Dies at 38 |url=https://variety.com/1998/film/news/terry-leslie-mcqueen-dies-at-38-1117468987/ |date=March 23, 1998 |website=Variety |archive-date=January 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127203102/https://variety.com/1998/film/news/terry-leslie-mcqueen-dies-at-38-1117468987/ |url-status=live |access-date=January 27, 2018 }}</ref> In her autobiography, ''My Husband, My Friend'', Adams stated that she got an abortion in 1971 when their marriage was on the rocks.<ref name="neile" />

Via his son Chad, one of McQueen's four grandchildren is [[Steven R. McQueen]], who also became an actor.<ref name="people">{{cite magazine |date=October 17, 1983 |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20086166,00.html |title=Steve McQueen's Actor Son, Chad, Is Following in His Dad's Tire Tracks as Well |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |volume=20 |issue=16 |first=Malcolm |last=Boyes |archive-date=December 5, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091205092116/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20086166,00.html }}</ref> His granddaughter via his daughter Terry is actress and producer Molly McQueen.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 29, 2015 |title=One-on-One with Molly McQueen |url=https://www.presspassla.com/one-on-one-with-molly-mcqueen/ |website=Press Pass LA |access-date=November 17, 2024 }}</ref>

[[Mamie Van Doren]] claimed to have had an affair with McQueen and tried [[hallucinogens]] with him around 1959.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mamie Van Doren Bares All |newspaper=Star-News |date=August 5, 1987 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=u7kyAAAAIBAJ&pg=6915,1695844 |access-date=September 9, 2012 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424215505/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=u7kyAAAAIBAJ&pg=6915%2C1695844&dq=mamie+van+doren+affair&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> Actress-model [[Lauren Hutton]] said that she also had an affair with McQueen around 1964.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news-article/mcqueen-tops-lauren.s-sex-list |title=McQueen Tops Lauren's Sex List |magazine=ContactMusic.com |date=March 27, 2003 |access-date=March 8, 2014 |archive-date=March 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329040205/http://www.contactmusic.com/news-article/mcqueen-tops-lauren.s-sex-list |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.girlonamotorcycle.la/celebs/2009/10/lauren-hutton.html |title=After Brush with Death, Lauren Hutton's Life Wish Pulls Her Through |website=GirlOnAMotorcycle.la |access-date=March 8, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140121032147/http://www.girlonamotorcycle.la/celebs/2009/10/lauren-hutton.html |archive-date=January 21, 2014 }}</ref> In 1971–1972, while separated from Adams, McQueen had a relationship with ''[[Junior Bonner]]'' co-star [[Barbara Leigh]],<ref name="tcm" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.barbaraleigh.com/index.htm |title=BarbaraLeigh.com |publisher=BarbaraLeigh.com |access-date=January 15, 2012 |archive-date=December 23, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111223025827/http://www.barbaraleigh.com/index.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> ending in pregnancy and abortion.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mcqueenonline.com/barbaraleighinterview.htm |title=Barbara Leigh Interview |publisher=McQueenonline.com |access-date=January 15, 2012 |archive-date=March 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302160239/http://mcqueenonline.com/barbaraleighinterview.htm |url-status=usurped }}</ref>

McQueen married his ''[[The Getaway (1972 film)|The Getaway]]'' co-star [[Ali MacGraw]] in [[Cheyenne, Wyoming]], on July 12, 1973, and they divorced on August 9, 1978.<ref name="moviefreak">{{cite web |date=2009 |url=http://www.moviefreak.com/features/rachel/stevemcqueen.htm |title=Steve McQueen – Career Retrospective |website=MovieFreak.com |access-date=September 11, 2009 |first=Rachel |last=Sexton |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090506100042/http://www.moviefreak.com/features/rachel/stevemcqueen.htm |archive-date=May 6, 2009 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> MacGraw suffered a miscarriage during their marriage.<ref>{{cite book |last=MacGraw |first=Ali |date=1991 |title=Moving Pictures |url=https://archive.org/details/movingpictures00macg |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Bantam Books |isbn=9780553072709 }}</ref> McQueen's closest friend in his last years, martial-arts master Pat Johnson, claimed that MacGraw was the one true love of McQueen's life: "He was madly in love with her until the day he died."<ref>{{cite web |last=Weller |first=Sheila |title=Once in Love with Ali |url=https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2010/3/once-in-love-with-ali |website=VanityFair |date=March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231028125401/https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2010/3/once-in-love-with-ali |archive-date=October 28, 2023 |url-status=live |access-date=October 28, 2023 }}</ref>

In 1973, McQueen was one of the [[pallbearers]] at [[Bruce Lee]]'s funeral, along with [[James Coburn]], Lee's brother [[Robert Lee (musician)|Robert]], Peter Chin, [[Dan Inosanto]], and [[Taky Kimura]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historylink.org/File/3999// |last=Burrows |first=Alyssa |title=Lee, Bruce (1940–1973), Martial Arts Master and Film Maker |website=HistoryLink.org |access-date=April 15, 2017 |date=October 21, 2002 |archive-date=July 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709222216/http://www.historylink.org/File/3999 |url-status=live }}</ref>

After discovering a mutual interest in racing, McQueen and ''The Great Escape'' co-star [[James Garner]] became good friends and lived near each other. McQueen recalled, "I could see that Jim was neat around his place. Flowers trimmed, no papers in the yard... grass always cut. So to piss him off, I'd start lobbing empty beer cans down the hill into his driveway. He'd have his drive all spick 'n' span when he left the house, then get home to find all these empty cans. Took him a long time to figure out it was me."<ref name="Nolan 1984" />

On January 16, 1980, less than 10 months before his death, McQueen married fashion model [[Barbara Minty]].<ref>{{cite web |date=2009 |url=http://movies.amctv.com/person/48038/Steve-McQueen/details |title=title |publisher=American Movie Classics Company |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091125000352/http://movies.amctv.com/person/48038/Steve-McQueen/details |archive-date=November 25, 2009 }}</ref> In her book ''Steve McQueen: The Last Mile'', Barbara Minty wrote that McQueen, who was raised [[Catholic Church in the United States|Catholic]], became an [[Evangelicalism in the United States|Evangelical Christian]] toward the end of his life.<ref name="McQueenB-SMTLM">McQueen, Barbara (2007). – ''Steve McQueen: The Last Mile.'' – Deerfield, Illinois: Dalton Watson Fine Books. – {{ISBN|978-1-85443-227-8}}.</ref> This was due in part to the influences of his flying instructor Sammy Mason, Mason's son Pete, and Barbara herself.<ref name="JohnsonB-VCS-2008-01-13">{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=Brett |title=Big legend in a small town – Action film hero lived quiet life in Santa Paula before 1980 death |newspaper=Ventura County Star |date=January 13, 2008 }}</ref> McQueen attended his local church, Ventura Missionary Church, and was visited by evangelist [[Billy Graham]] shortly before his death.<ref name="JohnsonB-VCS-2008-01-13" /><ref>{{cite AV media |type=DVD |title=Steve McQueen, The Essence of Cool }}</ref>

===Lifestyle===
[[File:Steve McQueen.jpg|thumb|McQueen's mug shot booking photographs for [[Driving under the influence|DUI]] in Alaska (1972)]]

McQueen followed a daily two-hour exercise regimen involving weightlifting and, at one point, running {{convert|5|mi|km|0}}, seven days a week.<ref name="Terrill 2020" />{{Rp|111}} McQueen learned the martial art [[Tang Soo Do]] from ninth-degree [[Black belt (martial arts)|black belt]] [[Pat E. Johnson]].<ref name="Terrill 1993" /><!-- DO NOT INSERT TEXT SAYING MCQUEEN STUDIED JEET KUNE DO WITH BRUCE LEE; THIS HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED AS INACCURATE.-->

According to photographer [[William Claxton (photographer)|William Claxton]], McQueen smoked [[marijuana]] almost every day. Biographer Marc Eliot stated that McQueen used a large amount of [[cocaine]] in the early 1970s. He was also a heavy cigarette smoker. McQueen sometimes drank to excess; he was arrested for driving while intoxicated in [[Anchorage, Alaska]], in 1972.<ref>{{cite news |title=Movie Star's Antics Failed to Impress Anchorage Policeman |place=[[Bend, Oregon]] |work=The Bulletin |date=June 29, 1972 |page=8 }}</ref>

===Manson connection===
Two months after [[Charles Manson]] incited the [[Tate murders]], including McQueen's friends [[Sharon Tate]] and [[Jay Sebring]], the media reported police had found a hit list with McQueen's name on it. According to his first wife, McQueen began carrying a handgun at all times in public, including at Sebring's funeral.<ref>{{cite book |author-link=Dominick Dunne |last=Dunne |first=Dominick |title=The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well Known Name Dropper |date=1999 |location=New York City |publisher=Crown Publishers |isbn=0-609-60388-4 }}</ref>

===Charitable causes===
McQueen had an unusual reputation for demanding free items in bulk from studios when agreeing to do a film, such as electric razors, jeans and other items. It was later discovered McQueen donated these things to the [[Boys Republic]] [[reformatory]] school,<ref>John Dominis/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images. "Steve McQueen Returns to Reform School" 1963, accessed February 7, 2011</ref> where he had spent time during his teen years.

===Political views===
Despite being registered as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]], McQueen supported [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] candidate [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] in the [[1964 United States presidential election|1964 presidential election]], but reverted to supporting Republican candidate [[Richard Nixon]] in the [[1968 United States presidential election|1968 presidential election]].<ref>Jet, October 1, 1964</ref><ref>Style Icons Vol 1 Golden Boys, 2014</ref>