Inside Kevin Costner’s Relationship History

Kevin Costner first met his college sweetheart, Cindy Silva, in 1975. According to pals, the smitten bachelor only had eyes for Silva, who was working as a Snow White impersonator at Disneyland. “(Kevin) was a skinny little runt, just over six feet and weighed about 150 pounds,” his college pal Craig Cessna told the Los Angeles Times. “We were all pretty geeky. He had dates–but he was crazy about ‘Snow White.’”

The couple tied the knot three years later and Silva supported her husband’s efforts to become an actor. They welcomed three children together: Annie, born in 1984, followed by Lily in 1986, and their son, Joe, born two years later. Despite being married to a Hollywood A-lister, Silva opted to remain out of the limelight, with Costner’s brother telling Time that she had no desire to be a Tinseltown trophy wife. In 1989, the actor waxed lyrical about Silva in an interview with People. “She was beautiful, she was sweet, she was smarter than me … she represented everything about women that I like,” he reflected. However, he also alluded to troubles within their relationship, confessing that he found marriage hard at the best of times.

In 1994, the couple called it quits after Costner was accused of having affairs with two women, British nightclub receptionist Sheri Stewart and Michelle Amaral, who worked at the hotel Costner was staying at during the filming of “Waterworld.” Silva reportedly received an eye-watering divorce settlement of $80 million.