page_title: Richard Fortus
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Fortus / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Guns N' Roses playing in Chile in 2011
context_page_description: Richard Fortus is an American guitarist. He is best known as a member of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he has been a member since 2002, and with whom he has recorded one studio album. Fortus has also collaborated extensively with The Psychedelic Furs frontman Richard Butler and fellow Guns N' Roses bandmate Frank Ferrer. Aside from lead singer Axl Rose, and keyboardist Dizzy Reed, Fortus is the longest tenured member of Guns N' Roses, having been with the band continuously since 2002.
  Alongside his work in Guns N' Roses, Fortus is a former member of Love Spit Love, Thin Lizzy and The Dead Daisies.
context_section_description: On November 5, 2005, Fortus' partner gave birth to a daughter, Paisley Piper Fortus. She gave birth to a second child,  Clover Blue Fortus, on January 6, 2008.
  In September 2015, he was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash, causing him to miss dates with the Dead Daisies. Fortus suffered a broken shoulder blade, a broken collarbone, six broken ribs, a broken toe, a bruised lung, a lacerated liver and a concussion.
  On December 10, 2016, Fortus married Stephanie Howlett, a St. Louis-based attorney. The couple resides in St. Louis County, Missouri with their two daughters.
caption: Fortus (left) with Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose and guitarist DJ Ashba in 2011
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