- Julie Cypher
Julie Cypher, born
August 24 ,1964 inWichita, Kansas , is best known as the former partner ofMelissa Etheridge .Cypher attended the
University of Texas at Austin . She married actorLou Diamond Phillips in 1986. In 1988, Cypher met Etheridge while directing the music video for the song "Bring Me Some Water " and split with Phillips in 1990 to embark on a relationship with Etheridge.Famous for being one half of one of the first publicly lesbian celebrity couples, Cypher advocated for
gay rights . She has also been involved in promotions forPETA . From her partnership with Melissa Etheridge, she gave birth to two children, a daughter, Bailey Jean, born in February 1997, and a son, Beckett, born November 1998. Although originally reticent, the couple eventually revealed that the father of both children was friend and rock starDavid Crosby . [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0305/24/pitn.00.html "Profiles of Melissa Etheridge, Margaret Cho"] . "CNN People in the News".May 24 ,2003 . Season and episode numbers unknown. ] In September 2000, she and Etheridge split. It soon came to light that Cypher had begun to question her sexuality,.Cypher married Matthew Hale in 2004.
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