Robert Redfords family tree: Wife Sibylle Szaggars and 4 children

Robert Redford and his second wife, Sibylle Szaggars, were married for 16 years before the Hollywood legend’s death at 89.The couple met in the late 1990s after Redford’s divorce from his first wife, and went on to tie the knot in 2009.Although the “Out of Africa” star called Szaggars, 68, a “very special person” during an interview with AARP in 2011, the couple largely kept their relationship private.Here is everything to know about Redford’s widow following his passing on Sept.16, 2025.The “Candidate” star and Szaggars, a German environmentalist and multimedia artist, first connected 11 years after Redford’s 1985 divorce from his first wife, Lola Van Wagenen.Redford reportedly invited his future wife and her friends to dinner after a day of skiing at his Utah resort, and Szaggars panicked because she “didn’t know any of his films” at the time.“I thought, ‘What if he wants to talk about his movies?’ I have no idea — that would be so embarrassing,” Szaggars, who quickly rented and watched snippets of Redford’s most popular flicks before the dinner, recalled during a panel for the YoungArts Salon in 2014.“I probably would have mixed everything,” she added.

“Of course, he did not talk about it, so I was rescued and saved.”Redford, meanwhile, was happy that Szaggars didn’t know much about him before their first meeting.He said they “started from a more even playing field” and “didn’t have to worry about any agenda.”“It was a wonderful beginning of a relationship, because it began as two human beings meeting each other and finding a connection as two human beings, rather than being colored by success,” the “Great Gatsby” star recalled during the panel.The “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” star announced that he and Szaggars were getting married during an interview with the German magazine Bunte in May 2022.Although Redford did not say when he popped the question, he did refer to Szaggars as...