Dog the Bounty Hunter new wife age

Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman and Francie Frane are married.

The controversial television personality, 68, wed Frane, 52, on Thursday in Colorado, Entertainment Tonight reports.

Dog and Frane publicly revealed their relationship in March 2020, almost 10 months after his wife Beth Chapman, who was diagnosed with stage II throat cancer in 2017, died at the age of 51. PEOPLE confirmed Dog and Frane's engagement in May 2020.

The wedding comes on the heels of a public rift between Dog and his daughter Bonnie, 22, who in August shared a lengthy statement accusing him of racism and homophobia, and of cheating on her mother, Beth. She and her half-sister Cecily also revealed they were not invited to Dog and Frane's wedding. (Cecily, 28, is Beth's daughter with her first husband Keith Barmore.)

Dog denied Bonnie's allegations in a statement to PEOPLE at the time and said, "Despite the sadness we feel at this rift in our family, Francie and I are looking forward to celebrating our wedding next week with the rest of our family and close friends."

Dog previously faced backlash over his use of racist language during a taped phone call with his son — during which he use the N-word over six times — that was made public in the National Enquirer in 2007. He apologized at the time and his A&E show Dog the Bounty Hunter was put on hiatus, though production resumed the following year. (The show concluded in 2012 after eight seasons.)

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Earlier this week, Dog addressed Bonnie's allegations and his use of racial slurs during a sit-down interview with ET's Kevin Frazier. "I have never been a racist. I'm 33.5 percent Apache," Dog told Frazier, who is Black.

When asked by Frazier why he used the language, Dog said: "I thought I had a pass in the Black tribe to use it, kind of like Eminem. I have more Black friends than Eminem."

Frazier pushed back on Dog's defense, telling him, "That is the proximity argument. 'I have lots of Black friends, so that should make me okay with Black people.'"

Frazier added, "If you use that word, and you use it in your regular everyday life, it makes you a racist."

During the interview, Dog also denied allegations of homophobia, claiming he has "three people on my staff that are gay men." Frazier interjected, "I hear what you're saying, but remember proximity does not mean that you are not racist or homophobic."

"Would I die for a gay man or a Black man? I'd lay down my life," Chapman replied, getting emotional.

Beth Chapman

Alice Elizabeth Chapman (October 29, 1967 – June 26, 2019) was an American bounty hunter and reality star who co-starred with her husband, Duane "Dog" Chapman, on the reality television shows Dog the Bounty Hunter, Dog and Beth: On the Hunt, and Dog's Most Wanted.

Personal life[edit]

Chapman was born in Denver, Colorado, one of five children born to Garry L. Smith, a Brach's Candies salesman.[2][unreliable source?] She trained as both a gymnast and ice skater. For some time she was a nightclub stripper, waitress and clerk. Chapman spent the majority of her early life in Colorado before moving to Honolulu to be with her future husband Duane Chapman, whom she married in 2006. In a mothers day address delivered at a church in an episode of Dogs Most Wanted, she claimed to have been raised as a Mennonite.[3][4]

Career[edit]

Chapman starred in reality television shows alongside her husband Duane Chapman, most notably Dog the Bounty Hunter which originally was released in late 2004 and lasted 8 seasons until 2012. Chapman's final series was Dog's Most Wanted which was being filmed in 2019. She died while the show was being produced. Dog's Most Wanted features Beth getting the news of her terminal cancer and her fight with it over time before her death. The final episode is dedicated to her memory.[5]

Illness and death[edit]

Beth Chapman was diagnosed with stage two throat cancer in September 2017, and initially went into remission. However, the disease later spread to her lungs. In early 2019, Chapman began filming their new show, Dog's Most Wanted, and on June 22, during production, she was hospitalized and placed in a medically induced coma at The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, where she later died from complications from the illness on June 26.[6][7] According to her death certificate, her ashes were scattered at sea. In the final episode of Dog's Most Wanted, this event was shown along with footage from her memorial services in Hawaii and Colorado.[3]

References[edit]

1. ^ Bueno, Antoinette (June 26, 2019). "Inside Beth and Duane 'Dog' Chapman's Complex Love Story and 13-Year Marriage". Yahoo!.
2. ^ "Beth Chapman". Facebook. June 19, 2016.
3. ^ a b "Beth Chapman Will Be Remembered With 2 Memorial Services". Us Weekly. June 27, 2019."Beth Chapman fans want ashes". MSNBC. BANG Showbiz. July 19, 2019.
4. ^ France, Lisa Respers (June 27, 2019). "Beth Chapman, 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' star, has died". CNN. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
5. ^ McCarthy, Tyler (June 27, 2019). "Beth Chapman was reportedly filming show with husband 'Dog' days prior to her hospitalization". Fox News.
6. ^ "'Dog the Bounty Hunter' Co-Star Beth Chapman Dies Of Cancer". Honolulu Civil Beat. Retrieved May 11, 2021.
7. ^ "Dog the Bounty Hunter Star Beth Chapman Dies at 51: 'She Hiked the Stairway to Heaven'". People Magazine. Retrieved May 11, 2021.

External links[edit]

• Beth Chapman at IMDb

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