Editing Gene Hackman (section)

===Marriages and family===
In 1956, Hackman married Faye Maltese (1928–2017),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/the-gene-genie-works-his-magic-off-screen-26255780.html |title=The Gene genie works his magic off screen |first=Shane |last=Ross |author-link=Shane Ross |date=August 6, 2000 |access-date=August 24, 2018 |newspaper=[[Irish Independent]] |publisher=[[INM Website]] |archive-date=August 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824065742/https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/the-gene-genie-works-his-magic-off-screen-26255780.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=January 19, 2022 |title=Inside Gene Hackman and Wife Betsy Arakawa's Happy Marriage |url=https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/gene-hackmans-wife-get-to-know-betsy-arakawa/ |access-date=September 26, 2022 |website=Closer Weekly |language=en-US |archive-date=September 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926202822/https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/gene-hackmans-wife-get-to-know-betsy-arakawa/ |url-status=live}}</ref> with whom he had one son and two daughters: Christopher Allen, Elizabeth Jean, and Leslie Anne Hackman.<ref>{{cite news |first=James |last=Brady |title=In Step with Gene Hackman |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=20011230&id=Rg4wAAAAIBAJ&pg=2998,4869880 |work=Parade |publisher=The Blade |date=December 30, 2001 |access-date=September 28, 2013}}</ref> He was often out on location making films while the children were growing up.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 1, 2011 |title=Is Gene Hackman Retired From Acting? GQ Interview June 2011 |url=https://www.gq.com/story/gene-hackman-gq-june-2011-interview |access-date=September 26, 2022 |website=GQ |language=en-US |archive-date=February 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218191424/http://www.gq.com/story/gene-hackman-gq-june-2011-interview |url-status=live}}</ref> The couple divorced in 1986, after three decades of marriage.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/19/magazine/hollywood-s-uncommon-everyman.html |title=Hollywood's Uncommon Everyman |last=Norman |first=Michael |date=March 19, 1989 |access-date=August 3, 2018 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=6029 |archive-date=June 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618052947/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/19/magazine/hollywood-s-uncommon-everyman.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

On December 1, 1991, Hackman married classical pianist [[Betsy Arakawa]] (1959–2025) after they had dated for seven years.<ref>{{cite book |last=Shelley |first=Peter |year=2018 |title=Gene Hackman: The Life and Work |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_tt8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA122 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland |page=122 |isbn=978-1-4766-7047-8 |archive-date=March 3, 2025 |access-date=March 2, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250303023155/https://books.google.com/books?id=_tt8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA122 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Lidz|first=Franz|title=Gene Hackman's new novel|work=AARP The Magazine|url=http://www.aarp.org/entertainment/arts-leisure/info-09-2011/gene-hackman.html|access-date=January 26, 2021|publisher=[[AARP]]|language=en-us|date=September 2011|archive-date=February 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209175057/https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/arts-leisure/info-09-2011/gene-hackman.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/us/betsy-arakawa-wife-gene-hackman-dead.html|title = Betsy Arakawa, a Classical Musician and the Wife of Gene Hackman, Dies at 65|last = Wolfe|first = Jonathan|date = February 27, 2025|access-date = February 27, 2025|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]|url-access = limited}}</ref> They shared a [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]], home, which ''[[Architectural Digest]]'' featured in 1990.<ref name="Chatfield-Taylor">{{Cite web |date=April 1, 1990 |title=Gene Hackman's Rustic Santa Fe Home |last=Chatfield-Taylor |first=Joan |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/gene-hackman-santa-fe-home |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240413153759/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/gene-hackman-santa-fe-home| archive-date= April 13, 2024| url-status= live| url-access= subscription |work= Architectural Digest |language=en-US |access-date= February 27, 2025}}</ref> At the time, the home blended [[Art of the American Southwest|Southwestern]] styles and was at the crest of a 12-acre hilltop, with a 360-degree view that stretched to the [[List of Colorado mountains|Jemez, Sangre de Cristo, and Sandia mountains]].<ref name="Chatfield-Taylor" />