Diane Keaton famously by no means married throughout her acclaimed Hollywood profession, although she has been linked to numerous well-known faces.
Keaton, who died in October 2025 on the age of 79, had lengthy been candid about her resolution to not stroll down the aisle.
“It goes again to my mom, as a result of, for me, most every part does. I really like my dad, after all … however she was at all times there, and he was at all times working,” Keaton advised Interview journal in a 2021 profile. “He was working exhausting, and he was actually attention-grabbing. And he beloved her, too. She had 4 children, and I used to be the firstborn. I noticed how a lot she gave up.”
She continued, “I really feel like she selected household over her desires, and he or she was simply the perfect mom. I feel that she is the explanation why I didn't get married. I didn't need to hand over my independence. By the best way, nobody has ever requested me to marry them, both, in order that is likely to be a great reply. I ought to've began with that and known as it a day.”
Keaton later adopted two youngsters, daughter Dexter and son Duke, as a single mom in her 50s.
Hold scrolling to revisit Keaton's relationship historical past via the years:
Woody Allen
Keaton and Allen's historical past goes again to the Seventies, throughout which it was extensively speculated that Allen based mostly the titular character of 1977's Annie Corridor on Keaton. (She additionally famously starred within the film.)
“It's not true, however there are parts of fact in it,” Keaton advised The New York Times in 1977 of the rumors.
Allen and Keaton additionally collaborated on Play It Once more, Sam and Love and Loss of life.
Whereas Keaton and Allen's romance solely spanned just a few quick years, she continued to keep up that they remained on amicable phrases.
“Woody Allen is my buddy and I proceed to imagine him,” Keaton tweeted in 2018, referring to a number of sexual misconduct accusations in regards to the director that he's vehemently denied.
Al Pacino
Keaton and Pacino didn't begin relationship till three years after wrapping 1971's The Godfather. They dated on and off till 1990.
“I used to be mad for him. Charming, hilarious, a nonstop talker,” she advised People in 2017. “There was a facet of him that was like a misplaced orphan, like this sort of loopy fool savant. And oh, attractive!”
That very same yr, Pacino attended Keaton's AFI Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony. He ended a tribute speech with, “I really like you endlessly.”
Warren Beatty
Keaton briefly dated Beatty after assembly on the set of 1981's Reds.
“The primary time I noticed Warren was in Splendor within the Grass [in 1961]. I imply, come on! He was, I imply, to die for. A dream,” she advised Variety in 2016. “Not solely was he lovely, attractive and attractive and charming and mysterious and an excellent film star however he was additionally an unbelievable producer and director, or is fairly, can also be an unbelievable director and producer. All of that is simply so distinctive.”
