He sought to divorce Eileen in 1968, but afterwards felt that he did not get his fair share of assets.īarrett and Roddenberry were married in Japan on August 6, 1969, in a Shinto ceremony. His frequent relationships with actresses were well known, and he boasted of late night casting sessions. He paid his secretary extra to provide alibis to both his wife and Barrett when he was with other women. By the time he worked on that series, his relationship with Barrett was well known, and they openly shared an apartment near Desilu Studios where it was filmed. Nichols has since said that they broke up after this, but she was later found more than once in Roddenberry's office on Star Trek either nude or partly clothed. During the production of his series The Lieutenant, he entered into relationships with Nichelle Nichols and Majel Barrett, seeking to have an open relationship with both women. Moving to California to pursue his writing career, he went on to become a television producer and became known as a womanizer. He joined the Los Angeles Police Department, and during this time he was known to have had affairs with secretarial staff, thus endangering his marriage. The couple had two daughters together, Darleen Anita and Dawn Allison. While at Los Angeles City College, he entered into a relationship with Eileen-Anita Rexroat, whom he went on to marry on June 20, 1942, before his deployment in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. Gene Roddenberry appearing in an advertisement for Mutual of New York in 1961Įugene Wesley 'Gene' Roddenberry (Aug– October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist best remembered for creating the original Star Trek television series.

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