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Regarded as a cultural icon and celebrity throughout the world, <a href="/biography/david-cassidy">David Bruce Cassidy</a> set the standard for pop icons equipped with a variety of skills. Not just because he was a great singer and songwriter with his hits like “Breaking Up is Hard to Do”, “Could it be Forever?”, “I Write the Songs”, “Romance”, Daydreamer” and more, but also because he also starred in TV shows like the popular sitcom “The Partridge Family” and movies earning him a rich $5-million net worth. These accomplishments weren't without their struggles -- Cassidy's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Ward">mother</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Ward">Evelyn Ward</a>, suffered from Alzheimer's disease, which continued to haunt him throughout his life both in the spotlight and out of it. Regardless, he remained excessively popular, owing much of it to his charm as a teen heartthrob -- and just like many other celebrities, David also had intriguing relationships throughout his life.

Born at Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York, his ancestors were both immigrants and colonial Americans -- his Father, half German and half Irish, while his mother's ancestors were the founders of Newark, New Jersey. Throughout his early childhood, his parents were frequently touring and thus weren't around as often, instead spending most of his time raised by his maternal grandparents. At one stage during his childhood, his parents had divorced and made the decision not to tell him. It wasn't until several years later, when he'd heard the from a neighbor, that he realized what had happened. His parents argued that because they were often gone, his life would remain mostly unchanged and decided not to sour his emotional stability.

Eventually, Cassidy moved in with his father and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Jones">Shirley Jones</a>, his father's new wife. Together, they helped David pursue acting and theater further, with Jack introducing him to his first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Aarons">manager</a> -- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Aarons">Ruth Aarons</a>, a close <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Aarons">friend</a> of Jack's who would later prove to be a big force behind David's early success.

The broadway musical The Fig Leaves Are Falling served as David's debut as a well-known actor. Later that year, in 1969, he moved to Los Angeles where he signed with Universal Studios and was featured in various roles in television series like Bonanza and Marcus Welby, M.D. The very next year in 1970, one of David's first and most well known roles took shape as he began work on The Partridge Family. During season one, he initially was working on set for small wages, before those wages were renegotiated for much better ones from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Aarons">Aarons</a>. Initially, he was cast aside as just a "looks" actor, before convincing the music producer that he could indeed sing, and was thus promoted to lead singer for the series' recordings. Around this time, he began work on his solo music career as well, releasing covers for The Association and The Young Rascals -- which, peculiarly, charted much higher in the U.K. than they did in the U.S.

By the late 70s, Cassidy took a turning point in his career, deciding to quit acting and focus primarily on recording alone. His success continued and his next several albums were all received with praise, with the hit "I Write the Songs" becoming the first recording artist hit.

Cassidy's life was sprinkled with various relationship challenges. His first marriage was with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Lenz">actress</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Lenz">Kay Lenz</a> on April 3, 1977. They found common ground because both David’s father had died in an apartment fire five months earier and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Lenz">Kay</a>’s father also had recently just died. They had met one another during one the sets for “The Partridge Family”. Their relationship only lasted four years, and had a divorce in 1981. By 1984, David married his second wife, Meryl Tanz, a horse breeder from South Africa, whom he met when he planned on building a stud farm. She introduced Thoroughfare Horseracing to David. David’s farm was as short lived as his relationship with Meryl, and they were separated, after two years of marriage.

He also had an affair with fashion model Sherry Benedon for almost 20 years that ended in 1990. Katherine Evelyn “Katie” Cassidy, a famous actress from “Gossip Girl”, is David’s daughter from his relationship with Benedon, although they were never married. David had a bad relationship with his daughter. <a href="/biography/katie-cassidy">Katie</a> claimed that David was shutting her out of his life and abused her verbally. Benedon added the David was not paying his share for <a href="/biography/katie-cassidy">Katie</a>’s hospital bills and was not providing enough child support for <a href="/biography/katie-cassidy">Katie</a>, although David’s camp claimed that his relationship to his daughter was only getting affected because Benedon still feels resentment for their broken relationship.

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On February 8, 1991, almost a month before he married his third wife, Sue Shifrin, David’s son Beau Devin Cassidy, was born. It was also the second marriage for Shifrin. However, in 2013, the couple decided to seek a divorce. Shifrin filed a Petition for Partition regarding their mansion in Los Angeles, in preparation for yet another divorce with David. Their relationship lasted for almost 28 years.

An unknown person called Wright claimed that her mother, Donna Wallace, had a one night affair with David. Wright also claims that she inherited David’s Lazy Eye Condition and that she bears a striking resemblance to David and his other daughter <a href="/biography/katie-cassidy">Katie</a>. Wright has been asking for help from various social media sites to get David’s attention and perhaps recognize her as his daughter.

Aside from these various relationship struggles, David has also struggled with alcohol. He has allegedly been arrested multiple times for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) and has received court summons alongside Shifrin’s court petitions. He admitted that he was addicted to alcohol and that keeping away from it has been too much for him to handle. He also added that it helps him numb his emotions because of the sad events that happened in his life.

In addition, Cassidy supposedly left the scene of a car accident he had been involved in, and ignored charges of having expired tags and driving on a suspended license.

In early 2017, it came to light that Cassidy had been diagnosed with dementia, the same condition his mother had suffered from at the end of her life. He then retired from performing, but continued to struggle. Later on November 18, Cassidy had been hospitalized from liver and kidney failure. He went into a coma, only to come out two days later, remaining in a critical condition. Eventually on November 21, Cassidy died of liver failure at age 67.

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