(March 24, 1960 - October 30, 1963) (divorced) Reventlow was the son of Barbara Hutton, heir to the F. W. Woolworth fortune. Reventlow died in a plane crash in 1972. Despite their divorce and subsequent re-marriages, St. John refers to Reventlow as "my late husband" in interviews.
Mid-June 58 columnist Harrison Carroll tells that by orders of 20th Century-Fox she will stay out of Lance Reventlow's private plane or any other plane until after the finish of The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
End June 58 Carroll writes: "To celebrate the start of her role in The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker, 17-year-old Jill St. John received a ring from Barbara Hutton's son, Lance Reventlow. Not a diamond to wear on the engagement finger, however. It's a gold ring, set with an antique Persian turquoise surrounded by four sapphires. Lance flew Jill to Santa Barbara in his private plan just to have lunch the other day. It will be a while, of course, before Jill can have any serious romance in her life. She hasn't yet received an interlocutory decree of divorce from estranged husband, Neil Dubin. 'I didn't ask for alimony or community property,' she declares. 'All I want is my freedom.'"
1958 she and Reventlow are pictured dining at her studio. "He has been dating her three or four times a week and even gave up road racing yesterday to be with her, but she says she has no intention of becoming serious about anything except her acting career." He's 22; she's 17.
Early July 58 Reventlow gifts her with a gold whistle.
August 58 columnist Hedda Hopper tells that Reventlow is sending out invitations to 200 to celebrate Jill's 18th birthday on August 19. There will be neither press nor photographers. "The Cary Grants probably will chaperone since Cary's always been found of the lad."
October 58 columnist Louella Parsons tells: "Barbara Hutton has promised to meet her son Lance Reventlow in New York at Christmas, and Lance is taking Jill St. John to introduce her to his mother. The young man is serious in his intentions, but he doesn't want to marry Jill until his mother meets her."
November 58 divides her dates between actor Barry Coe and Lance Reventlow
Jan 1959 columnist Earl Wilson tells that she was dating Bob Evans in New York while Reventlow was auto-racing in the Bahamas
Reventlow is seen at the Embers scene with Cynthia Brooks
End January 59
though their romance is reported washed up, Reventlow phones her from Paris
Harrison tells: "Lance Reventlow got Jill St. John out of bed at 5 a.m. to tell her, via trans-Atlantic phone, that he would be a week later than expected getting back from Rome. He asked her what he should bring her. 'A handsome Italian,' she laughingly replied."
April 59 will fly to Cuernavaca, Mexico, and be the house guest of Barbara Hutton as soon as she finishes Holiday for Lovers. Lance will be with her. "I thought the Mexican trip would be her first meeting with Lance's mother, but she says that Lance introduced them in New York."
Barbara Hutton is reported dusting off several rooms in her $2,000,000 Oriental palace in Cuernavaca, "preparing for visits from (1) her beau, Jimmy Douglas; (2) her son, Lance Reventlow; and (3) Lance's best girl, Jill St. John..."
27 June 59 attorney Arthur Crowley, 34, and actor Wayde Preston, 28, clash at a party in the Beverly Hills home of Lance Reventlow. Jill says "Preston wasn't invited. He had a chip on his shoulder all evening. He finally was asked to leave but did not go."
Late June 59 talks to Carroll about marriage and that she and Reventlow "are getting less definite by the minute..."
the press reports that the only piece of jewelry she wears in Holiday for Lovers is Reventlow's gold identification bracelet
4 July 59 her divorce from Dubin becomes final. His profession is given as a linen supply firm executive. She returns to her parents’ modern ranch house in Encino.
July 59 she and Ruth Pierce fly to Ensenada with Reventlow and Bill Holmes for a day of angling
End July 59 columnist Walter Winchell writes that "Lance Reventlow is about as close to marrying actress Jill St. John as Khrushchev is to Nixon..."
is "Miss Model Aviation" for the National Model Airplane Championship held at the Naval Air Station Los Alamitos, California
6 August 59 she and Reventlow announce their engagement. They plan a spring wedding and a honeymoon cruise to the Orient.
19 August 59
has her birthday dinner at Reventlow's house. Their friends
Nina Shipman and Peter Gilman help them celebrate.
Late August 59 Winchell reports that she "says she never even heard of Jack Ferguson until the item was printed that she was dating him. Embarrassing too, coming the same day as her engagement to Lance. Sorry..."
End August 59 the press tells that she and Reventlow are planning such an unusually long engagement because he still hasn't received the absolute final okay from his famous mother
September 59 she and Reventlow will fly to Honolulu "chaperoned by his cousin, Jimmy Donahue, as soon as they can get reservations on the jet. Lance goes on from there to meet a group of friends on a yacht in Tahiti. Among them is Diane
Varsi's ex-husband, James Dickson."
Mid-September 59 she and Reventlow are guests at a party for British singer Frankie Vaughn given by Arlene and Fernando Lamas before Vaughn's opening in Las Vegas
Early October 59 Kilgallen expects her and Reventlow to "end their multipublicized 'engagement' before very long. They like each other, but the wedding date never was set and the betrothal announcement might well have been rigged to help her career as an actress and attract attention to him as a sports car racer."
8 October 59 in Honolulu she and Reventlow announce that they will get married in March or April. "The ceremony will be held in Hollywood, not Hawaii."
22 March 60 she and Reventlow get their marriage license in Riverside, California. They don't disclose where the wedding will take place.
24 March 60 marries Reventlow in the Royal Suite of the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco. He's 24; she's 19. The civil ceremony is performed by California Supreme Court Justice Marshall McComb. She wears a pink silk suit and carries a bouquet of lilies of the valley, pink and white roses and white carnations. Young actress Nina Shipman, Jill's best friend, is maid of honor; James Woolworth Donahue is best man. Her parents and his mother attend, too. His butler, Dudley Walker, and his childhood nurse, Barbara Latimer, flew from England to attend. Shipman presents the newlyweds with a pair of gold-plated handcuffs.
28 March 60 she and Reventlow flee to an undisclosed ski-resort hideaway in the High Sierras for a brief honeymoon. Nina Shipman accompanies with them. They will spend three days in seclusion before Reventlow returns to Hollywood to race his sports car at Riverside, California.
June 60 she and Reventlow suffer a boating accident off the Cote d'Azur. "They were cruising off shore when the generator in the rented speedboat caught fire. With a fuel explosion possible any second, both dived overboard and had to swim to land. Luckily, says Jill, she was wearing a bikini."
Mid-May 61 returns to Europe for filming of Tender is the Night in Monaco. Reventlow accompanies her.
11 July 62 files for separate maintenance against Reventlow in Santa Monica charging mental cruelty. Quarrels over her career and over the auto racing interests of her husband have pushed them to the separation point. He's 26; she's 21. She says she hopes that the separation will give them both time to think things out and asks for a court order restraining Reventlow from selling any of the couple's community property. "We had different outlooks, views, and interests," she says, "We don't seem to be getting along."
1 August 62 dismisses her separate maintenance suit against Reventlow in Santa Monica Superior Court
Late September 62 moves back to the same apartment building she lived in before marrying Reventlow
October 62
turns down a magazine offer to "tell all" about her breakup with Reventlow
May 1963 is reported dating her ex Lance Reventlow at a Hollywood party.
Early October 63 files for divorce from Reventlow in Los Angeles charging extreme cruelty
30 October 63
divorces Reventlow in Los Angeles saying she did it on her physician's advice after her husband bullied her into participating in dangerous sports. She wins an $86,000 settlement, payable at $1,000 monthly for seven years and two months. She wears a black suit with a little Lord Fauntleroy blouse and tie, and is at times on the verge of tears. Her corroborative witness, Celeste Shane, 23, says Reventlow frequently "ridiculed his wife, and didn't have a kind word for her 65 percent of the time even when she was trying to do her best for him." Reventlow doesn't contest.