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(October 27, 1971 - 1983) (divorced) (2 children)
At the age of 22, Garvey married Cynthia Truhan in 1971. They had two children, Krisha and Whitney. Cynthia left Garvey for composer Marvin Hamlisch. (Cyndy would later claim Garvey "gave me away" to Hamlisch after a private two-hour conversation.) Garvey was already romantically involved with his secretary. The couple separated and filed for divorce in September of 1981. Garvey later filed for an annulment from Cyndy Garvey in the archdiocese of Detroit, after seven and half years the annulment was granted.
When these details became public, Garvey's post-baseball political ambitions were widely seen to have disappeared under the weight of two illegitimate children. Garvey, in the midst of what he later termed a "midlife disaster", sued Cyndy, his ex-wife, for access to his two children. His daughters testified in court they did not love their father and did not wish to see him. Cyndy Garvey was handcuffed and jailed, based on 167 counts of contempt. Under the shadow of multiple lawsuits and damage to his reputation, Garvey lost business opportunities, declared himself broke, and found himself paying half his monthly television earnings in child support, and millions in legal fees.