"Dynasty" Tycoon Forsythe Marries
By Bridget Byrne
John Forsythe, boss to Charlie's Angels and patriarch of Dynasty, has gotten married again.
However, not even the publicist for the erstwhile Blake Carrington professes to know the intimate details of how the nuptials went down.
The basic facts are this: Forsythe, 84, married Beverly Hills businesswoman Nicole Carter, 62, on July 25 in Solvang, California, in what his publicist says was "a small and very private ceremony."
Forsythe reportedly met Carter at a social event more than a year ago. He purportedly decided to reveal his hitherto unpublicized hitching on Wednesday, after a tabloid reporter called him at home and threatened to write a story even if Forsythe would not corroborate it.
This is the actor's his third trip down the aisle. He was married to his second wife, Julie, for 52 years, until her death in 1994. He and his first wife, Paula McCormick, divorced in 1940 after a two-year union.
The official statement reads: "After the tremendous amount of work-related publicity during his gratifying Dynasty years...John is now enjoying the quiet of his beautiful ranch, just three hours north of Los Angeles." An avid racing fan, Forsythe owns and breeds thoroughbreds at his Big Train Farm to race at the Hollywood Park and Santa Anita tracks.
There is a possibility that Forsythe will again provide the voice of Charlie Townsend in the upcoming Charlie's Angels 2: Halo, as he did in the 2000 movie, starring Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu, and the original Spelling-produced '70s series about the crime-fighting babes, starring Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson and Farrah Fawcett.
Aside from his Charlie duties, Forsythe also played the handsome playboy uncle Bentley Gregg raising a niece in the 1957-62 sitcom Bachelor Father. His credits also include two Alfred Hitchcock films, Topaz and The Trouble with Harry, and the 1967 true-crime thriller In Cold Blood with Robert Blake.
But Forsythe will forever be famous as the suave, handsome tycoon on Aaron Spelling's ultimate '80s prime-time sudser, Dynasty, starring opposite Linda Evans (who played his glamorous spouse, Krystle) and Joan Collins (his scheming ex-wife, Alexis).