page_title: Personal life of Gene Roddenberry
hierarchical_section_title: Personal life of Gene Roddenberry
caption_attribution_description: English: A photograph of Gene Roddenberry from 1961, used to advertise for Mutual of New York. Published in Look magazine.
context_page_description: Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist best remembered for creating the original Star Trek television series. While at Los Angeles City College, he entered into a relationship with Eileen-Anita Rexroat, who he went on to marry on June 20, 1942, before his deployment in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. The couple had two daughters together, Darleen Anita and Dawn Allison. He joined the Los Angeles Police Department, and during this time he was known to have had affairs with secretarial staff, thus endangering his marriage.
  Moving to California to pursue his writing career, he went on to become a television producer and became known as a womanizer. During the production of his series The Lieutenant, he entered into relationships with Nichelle Nichols and Majel Barrett, seeking to have an open relationship with both women. Nichols has since said that they broke up after this, but she was later found more than once in Roddenberry's office on Star Trek either nude or partly clothed.
context_section_description: Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist best remembered for creating the original Star Trek television series. While at Los Angeles City College, he entered into a relationship with Eileen-Anita Rexroat, who he went on to marry on June 20, 1942, before his deployment in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. The couple had two daughters together, Darleen Anita and Dawn Allison. He joined the Los Angeles Police Department, and during this time he was known to have had affairs with secretarial staff, thus endangering his marriage.
  Moving to California to pursue his writing career, he went on to become a television producer and became known as a womanizer. During the production of his series The Lieutenant, he entered into relationships with Nichelle Nichols and Majel Barrett, seeking to have an open relationship with both women. Nichols has since said that they broke up after this, but she was later found more than once in Roddenberry's office on Star Trek either nude or partly clothed. By the time he worked on that series, his relationship with Barrett was well known, and they openly shared an apartment near Desilu Studios where it was filmed. He paid his secretary extra to provide an alibi for when he was with other women, both to Eileen and Barrett. His frequent relationships with female actresses were well known, and he boasted of late night casting sessions. He sought to divorce Eileen in 1968, but afterwards felt that he didn't get his fair share of assets.
  Barrett and Roddenberry were married in Japan on August 6, 1969, in a Shinto ceremony. His divorce was not yet finalized, so he and Barrett had a second ceremony at their home in California on December 29. However, Roddenberry continued to have relationships with other women. The couple had a son, Eugene Jr., who was born on February 5, 1974. Roddenberry and Barrett remained married until his death in 1991.
caption: Gene Roddenberry appearing in an advertisement for Mutual of New York in 1961
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