Tue. Oct 6th, 2026
Dennis Hopper divorced Brooke Hayward in 1969.

Dennis Hopper by Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

S28E18: Brooke Hayward and Dennis Hopper (A Trashy Divorces Encore Plus)


Alicia has perhaps the spiderwebby-est story she’s ever told, with the 1960s marriage and divorce of actors Brooke Hayward and Dennis Hopper. They were together through the decade and became a central part of the scene – art, politics, music – but the highly combustible nature of their marriage meant it could not last.

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Alicia’s Receipts

The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper, by Dominick Dunne (amazon.com)

The Untold Story of Brooke Hayward and Dennis Hopper’s Hollywood Home | Vanity Fair (vanityfair.com)

Jane Fonda,Greenwich Academy,Emma Willard School,Vassar,Brooke Hayward,Bridget Hayward,Henry Fonda,Dennis Hopper (blacklistedjournalist.com)

Brooke Hayward Papers (nypl.org)

Dennis Hopper Charlie Rose (YouTube link)

Dennis Hopper: Mad, bad and dangerous to know – Independent.ie (independent.ie)

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