{"id":19980,"date":"2025-06-29T21:49:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T21:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new50.info\/?p=19980"},"modified":"2025-06-29T21:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T21:49:48","slug":"hollywood-star-ali-macgraw-retired-from-acting-now-lives-in-a-tiny-town-where-people-respect-her-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new50.info\/?p=19980","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood star Ali MacGraw retired from acting &#038; now lives in a tiny town where people respect her privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"459\">Ali MacGraw\u2019s rise from modest beginnings to Hollywood icon began in New York, where she parlayed her Wellesley education and early work at Harper\u2019s Bazaar into a breakthrough modeling career. Discovered by photographer Melvin Sokolsky, she soon transitioned to film, earning Golden Globes for Goodbye, Columbus (1969) and her legendary turn as Jenny in Love Story (1970), which also brought her an Oscar nomination and cemented her status as a screen legend.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"461\" data-end=\"845\">At the height of her fame, MacGraw\u2019s personal life played out in the tabloids: she married Paramount executive Robert Evans in 1969, had son Josh in 1971, then left Evans for co-star Steve McQueen. Their passionate but turbulent relationship led her to briefly step away from acting\u2014only to part ways in 1978 when McQueen\u2019s traditionalism clashed with her fiercely independent spirit.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"847\" data-end=\"1215\">The late \u201970s and \u201980s marked a period of profound transformation: MacGraw overcame addiction at the Betty Ford Clinic in 1986, survived a devastating wildfire in 1993, and ultimately relocated to a quiet New Mexico village. 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