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Julie Cypher | |
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Born | Wichita, Kansas, U.S. | August 24, 1964
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Partner(s) | Melissa Etheridge (c. 1990; sep. 2000) |
Children | 2 |
Julie Cypher (born August 24, 1964) is an American film director best known for being the former partner of musician Melissa Etheridge and former spouse of Lou Diamond Phillips.
Cypher was born in Wichita, Kansas, to Dick and Betty ( née Jackson) Cypher, and has an older sister named Melanie. She attended the University of Texas at Austin studying television and film. [1]
She married actor Lou Diamond Phillips on September 17, 1987. Two years later, she met Etheridge while assisting on the music video for the single "Bring Me Some Water", and split with Phillips in 1990 to start a relationship with Melissa Etheridge. Cypher directed the 1995 film Teresa's Tattoo , starring Phillips, C. Thomas Howell, and Kiefer Sutherland. [ citation needed ]
After originally spending roughly three years in a marriage with Lou Diamond Phillips, Cypher was a gay rights advocate, and became famous for being one half of one of the first publicly lesbian celebrity couples. [2] In 1995 she and Melissa Etheridge appeared in a "We'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" poster campaign for PETA. [3]
During her partnership with Etheridge, Cypher gave birth to two children via artificial insemination: a daughter, Bailey Jean, born in February 1997, and a son, Beckett, born November 1998. Although initially reluctant to discuss it, the couple eventually revealed that the biological father of both children was musician David Crosby. In a 1999 therapy session, Cypher told Etheridge that she (Cypher) was "not gay", and the couple split in September 2000. [4] [5] [6] Cypher went on to marry Matthew Hale in 2004. [7]
On May 13, 2020, Etheridge announced via Twitter that their son, Beckett, died at age 21. [8]
Mark Kendall Bingham was an American public relations executive who founded his own company, the Bingham Group. During the September 11 attacks in 2001, he was a passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93. Bingham was among the passengers who, along with Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett and Jeremy Glick, formed the plan to retake the plane from the hijackers, and led the effort that resulted in the crash of the plane into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, thwarting the hijackers' plan to crash the plane into a building in Washington, D.C., most likely either the U.S. Capitol Building or the White House.
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