The news that Frankie Valli has tied the knot is (almost) too fantastic to be true. On Monday, June 26, 2018, the frontman for Four Seasons, who is 89 years old, married Jackie Jacobs in Las Vegas at the Westgate Hotel in Las Vegas.
“It’s terrific to have found love once again at this stage of my life,” the singer says in an exclusive interview.
“It’s terrific to have found love once again at this stage of my life.”
During the little wedding ceremony, which consisted of only the two of them, the vows of marriage were exchanged. Valli’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You,” a record that had been awarded the gold certification in 1967, was playing in the background as Valli sweetly sung the song into the ear of his newlywed wife.
The woman, who was 60 years old, was dressed in a white wedding gown and had her hair put up in lovely curls. She also wore delicate silver earrings. Valli was attired in a blue suit, a white collared shirt, and a gold chain that was quite plain.
Jacobs was a marketing executive for CBS in the past and is originally from the state of Maryland. According to what she said, she and Valli first crossed paths in 2007, but they didn’t start dating until 2015.
“We met at a restaurant in Los Angeles where he joined my friends and I for dinner,” she said. “He was in town visiting friends.” “He called me late in 2015 and asked me out on a date, and ever since then, we’ve been together as a couple.” “We stayed in touch with one another by talking on the phone.”
Both with the group and as a solo artist, Valli has amassed more than 35 successes that have charted in the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 singles list. Some of his hits include “Sherry,” “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night),” and “Grease.” Valli is most known for his characteristic falsetto voice and for his role as the frontman of the Four Seasons.
In addition to being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 with his fellow original Four Seasons bandmates Tommy DeVito, Nick Massi, and Bob Gaudio, Valli was also honored with induction into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999. The songs and history of the band were also memorialized on Broadway in the musical Jersey Boys, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical.
Valli, who was born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio in Newark, New Jersey, had been married three times prior to his most recent union. In his early 20s, he married Mary Delgado, who already had a daughter called Celia. Together, they produced two daughters named Antonia (Toni) and Francine. Mary was already a mother when he married her in 1958.
After 13 years of marriage, Vincent Valli and Francine Delgado filed for divorce in 1971. The next decade brought the couple further heartache, as Celia was tragically killed in a vehicle accident in 1980, and Francine passed just six months later due to an overdose on drugs. “We were still grieving Celia’s loss, but Francine was in a good place, gearing up to start singing with my dad,” Valli’s daughter Toni said in an interview in 2008.
In 1974, Valli married MaryAnn Hannagan. After being married for a total of eight years, the couple finally filed for divorce in 1982. After another year had passed, he tied the knot with Randy Clohessy, and the couple went on to have three children together: Francesco, twins Emilio and Brando, and Brando. After 20 years of marriage, Valli and Clohessy divorced each other in the year 2004.
In an interview, Valli said that he considers himself a family guy and that he has discovered “unconditional love” via his children and grandchildren. He has stayed unusually close with his children, even bringing his twin boys with him on tour at one time, and his granddaughter Olivia followed him into show business, appearing in a touring production of Pretty Woman and an Off-Broadway run of Jersey Boys. He has maintained a very strong relationship with his children.
In the latter part of this year, Valli and the Four Seasons will begin a residency at the Westgate Hotel in Las Vegas that will last for a whole year.
