Marriage Quote by Robert Vaughn

A small sentence that quietly rewrites the tabloid script. Robert Vaughn isn’t offering a spicy anecdote or a romantic footnote; he’s doing reputation management with a soft voice. The line is built around an unexpected loyalty: not “I still talk to him,” but “I’m still very close friends with his first wife.” That choice shifts the emotional center away from the celebrity man and toward the person who, in most public narratives, gets flattened into “the ex.”

The specificity matters. Naming “Neile” (not just “his first wife”) signals intimacy and respect, a refusal to treat her as an accessory to someone else’s career. Then comes the deft little add-on: “who is now remarried.” It’s not gossip; it’s a moral alibi. Vaughn preempts the insinuation that this friendship is nostalgic, flirtatious, or a proxy war against the ex-husband. Remarriage becomes shorthand for closure, stability, and adult boundaries.

In actor-speak, it’s also a reveal about the world they moved through: long-running friendships, overlapping circles, and the way personal histories keep showing up at premieres and dinner parties. Vaughn’s intent reads as protective, even chivalrous in a modern way: he’s guarding Neile’s dignity while signaling that divorces don’t have to produce scorched earth. The subtext is a gentle rebuke to our appetite for messy endings. Some people exit the marriage and remain in the community, and that, he suggests, is the more interesting story.