Walters' love life was almost as dramatic as her interviews.
Only after realizing the damage they were doing to their careers did she break it off.
Here’s what we know about them all.
After college, she got a job at a local New York City TV station.
In 1955, while visiting her parents, she happened to meet a casual friend at the airport.
Bob Katz was a Navy veteran and successful businessman whose family ran a children’s hat company.
After a whirlwind romance, they married, but Walters regretted the decision even before saying her vows.
But Lou talked her down, pointing out that he’d already paid for a fancy Plaza Hotel reception.
“My heart never felt so heavy,” shewrote.
The marriage proved to be just as disastrous as Walters feared.
She and Katz had no children together and divorced in 1957.
No reports are available on Katz’s life after the divorce.
Indeed, the couple’s life together got off to a bumpy start.
Walters and Guber tried to start a family with no success.
“I…had several miscarriages,“Walters told Jane Pauley in a 2002 interview.
“And when I did, they were never reported.”
Despite their joy in parenthood, Walters and Guber proved incompatible partners.
They divorced in 1972, andGuber died in 1988.
Not much has been reported about her since she wasarrested for DUIin 2013.
Barbara Walters wed Merv Adelson twice
Barbara Walters' next marriage involved another media powerhouse.
Prior to that, he had already made millions building real estate projects in Las Vegas.
The couple made another go of wedlock in 1986, but Adelson’s past became an issue between them.
The negative press put a strain on their marriage and careers.
“Merv was never a member of organized crime.
He had nothing to do with that,” Walters told Roger Friedman in his Fox News’Fox411 column.
The fact that he was married to me might have made him more vulnerable.”
The two divorced for the second time in 1992.
Merv Adelson’s successes faded almost as quickly as they began.
