Senator Dianne Feinstein was married to investment banker Richard C. Blum for over 4 decades after already having had two ex-husbands. Details about her love life explored.
California United States Senator Dianne Feinstein has died at age 90, after months of declining health.
A member of the Democratic Party, Feinstein was first elected to the US Senate in 1992 after defeating California State Controller Gray Davis during a special election to fill a vacant seat.
She spent much of her final years in public office as the oldest sitting U.S. Senator and she was one of the richest active members of Congress.
She is also known for her high profile dating life as she married prominent men over the years. Here’s what we know about all her husband and marriages.
Who was Senator Dianne Feinstein?
Dianne Feinstein was born in San Francisco, California, on June 22, 1933.
She is officially the longest-serving tenured female senator in history, who served as a U.S. Senator for California over three decades.
The senator played a significant role in the effort to legalize gay marriage and also worked to ensure that LGBTQ+ Americans received equal rights.
Senator Feinstein also helped create the nationwide AMBER Alert network for missing children. Further, she long focused on preserving the Mojave Desert, Lake Tahoe, and California’s forests. This included improving California’s water infrastructure to reduce the threat of wildfires.
Having been reelected five additional times during the years 1994, 2000, 2006, 2012, and 2018, Feinstein’s term in the Senate concluded in January 2025.
“I campaigned in 2018 on several priorities for California and the nation,” she had stated via her official website.
She also made clear she did not intend to run for reelection in 2024.
“Congress has enacted legislation on all of these topics over the past several years but more needs to be done – and I will continue these efforts,” the politician mentioned, prior to her death. “I’m confident we can achieve these goals because we’ve done it before.”
On May 18, 2023, Senator Dianne Feinstein revealed that she had been hospitalized in San Francisco and was receiving treatment after being diagnosed with shingles in February.
In a statement at the time, she shared that she was expected “to make a full recovery,” however when she returned to the Capitol in mid-May, The New York Times described her as “frailer than ever.”
The outlet revealed that she was dealing with more serious complications from her recent fight with shingles.
“The shingles spread to her face and neck, causing vision and balance impairments and facial paralysis known as Ramsay Hunt syndrome,” The New York Times wrote.
Her hingle diagnosis came with expecations for future complications.
“The virus also brought on a previously unreported case of encephalitis, a rare but potentially debilitating complication of shingles, according to two people familiar with the senator’s diagnosis who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe it.”
Post-shingles encephalitis may cause swelling of the brain and even affect memory, sleep, mood, and mobility.
More recently, on Tuesday, August 8, 2023, Feinstein was hospitalized, once again, after tripping and falling in her home city, according to TMZ.
How many times was Dianne Feinstein married?
For her 90 years on earth, Dianne Feinstein was married three times to high profile men just like herself.
The names of her husbands are Jack Berman, Bertram Feinstein, and Richard C. Blum.
From her three marriages, she only had one child, a daughter who followed in her footsteps, Katherine Anne Feinstein with her first husband.
Who was Richard Blum?
Richard C. Blum, who was in politic too, was Feinstein’s third husband from her third marriage.
Feinstein married Richard Blum in 1980, while she was serving as the Mayor of San Francisco.
The chairman and president of Blum Capital passed away in February 2022 at the age of 86.
It was later revealed that Blum had died after a battle with lung cancer.
Feinstein and Blum did not welcome any children together.
However, Feinstein shares one child, with her previous husband, Jack Berman – a daughter named Katherine Feinstein – while Blum had three daughters from his previous marriage to Andrea Schwartz.
At time of her death, Dianne had an estimated net worth of $110million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
This number does not take into account her late husband’s roughly $1billion fortune, The New York Times notes.
Feinstein received a senator’s base salary of approximately $174,000 annually, but most of her fortune was made with Blum, who owned a private equity firm and a lucrative real estate business.
The couple’s properties included the Carlton Hotel in San Francisco and personal homes in Aspen, Hawaii, Spring Valley, and Pacific Heights.
Who are Dianne Feinstein’s other ex-husbands?
Senator Dianne’s first marriage was to Jack Berman, a San Francisco superior court judge. The duo got married in 1956, when she was 23 years old.
Just a year after their marriage, they welcomed their child, who was her only child, Katherine, in 1957.
Like her late mother, Katherine also has a career in politics. For 12 years, she served as a San Francisco Superior Court Judge before retiring in 2012. Katherine, 66, is married to her husband Rick Mariano and the couple habe a daughter who was the late senator’s grandkid, Eileen Feinstein Mariano.
After almost two years since Katherine’s birth, Dianne and Jack divorced in 1959. The couple were married for three years.
Before Richard Blum, Dianne wed her second husband, Bertram Feinstein who was a neurosurgeon. They got married in 1962 for more than a decade. Sadly, Bertram passed away from colon cancer in 1978.
Feinstein married her third husband, investment banker Richard C. Blum, in 1980. They remained married until his death in February 2022.