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I don't know myself, please add to the list and if anyone knows his wives please add those. I'm in work, and bored so I can't reference any books at the moment.
Wife - Susan
Children - Shawn, Christian

I'm sure he has a son called Brian, as quoted in a Mojo Magazine last year... :)

Oh, and you might wanna check this link. Very interesting...

http://www.lvlife.com/2004/05/feature2.html

Mike has the following wives/exes and children:

1. Frances St. Martin 1961-64 - Melinda & Teresa

[Shannon Haris 1964 - Shawn (unproven but widely assumed)]

2. Suzanne Belcher 1965-1968 - Christian & Hayleigh

3. Tamara Fitch 1972-1977 - Summer Deva

4. Cathy Martinez 1981-1982 - Micheal Edward (there is some disupte as to his paternity)

5 - Jacquelyn Piesen 1994-date - Brian & Ambah

He's got a whole baseball team!

Then there was Sue Damon Oliver in the late 70's, with no apparent offspring.  Cathy Martinez is the one involving Wolfman Jack as the minister.  I remember Mike saying on TV his earlier marriages hadn't lasted, so he wanted to get married by a bishop this time, so he said Wolfman sent in the extra five dollars and got bishop's papers.  Didn't seem to help any, as it was all over pretty quick. 

Cor! thats 9 that we know about, there's probably a whole village of them somewhere.

Mike never married Sue Damon, nor Sumako Kelly, nor Sharon Lee: hoever, he may have married and then divorced someone in the 80s before the family knew much about it. Got this info from a family member.

:lol

So Mike has a daughter named Melinda, eh?

Those wacky BB ...

She used to post on some of the boards and lists.....

:lol she was posting here about a month ago...

Re: Andrew's reply to my post, I was taking the Sue Oliver info from the Gaines book, where he cites the marriage as taking place  "in a quiet ceremony in a Lake Tahoe chapel" in the "late seventies", and that they divorced two years later. I know Gaines' book had some, ahem,  "problems"; this is evidently one of them. i remember having heard her name associated with Mike in that timeframe, but didn't know any more than that.  Admittedly a difficult history to follow and keep straight!

Which is the one that Dennis liked so well?

The second wife was the one Dennis had a thing so Mike dosed Dennis with acid and took him on a high speed motorcycle ride. Ah those wacky Beach Boys

I guess Dennis liked some of them. I remember Brian saying that Dennis had sex with every Beach Boy's wife, though in Mike's case I don't know if he had with all of them....

Then there was the time that someone posted about seeing Mike playing with his grandkids (via Melinda) in the airport, and another poster came on and made a joke about whether Mike was going to eat them or not, evil man that he supposedly was.  And Melinda piped up that she was going to go upstairs and make sure that everything was OK or something.  Now talk about bad timing and hurtful things to say....

The Lovester's a dirty slut.

Whoa, even Marilyn and Anne?

That's what Brian said.... Also with Lady Lynda....

I know Dennis is a manslut but thats kind of scumbaggery.

That's why Dennis was the posterboy for The Golden Penetrators.

Mike should have kept his Love in his pants.

WHAT?! Where in the hell was I?! Is it still on the board?

No, it was either on the Smile Shop or the old board.   Gone either way.  Sometimes these things all blur together. 

Good. We don't need stuff like that.


Agreed. Although...I still have a hard time buying any kind of liason between him and Marilyn....

Ouch!
I,  for one, am happy that he didn't!!!
I'd like to flatter myself that given the chance to meet all of us, you might find at least one or two of us are very nice, normal people. Okay, "normal" may be a bit of a stretch...

I do read the boards frequently and post from time to time. The post referred to above was on the Smile Shop. Jon and Toby were just being silly, not really offensive at all.

Andrew, I know you're a stickler for detail so a couple of corrections:
Hayleigh then Christian.
It's Ambha.
The official wife count is 6. Although I was not a witness to the ceremony, (and he could have actually married someone else entirely), we count Sue Oliver as wife #4 in our family.

As for the official number of biological children, it's anyone's guess! At least 7.

And by the way, even though he was practically irresitibly charming, I refuse to believe Dennis ever bedded my mother.

Ambha? I like that...that's a cool name...

And wasn't Dennis a teenager during that marriage, anyway? That makes it unlikely, unless it was years after the divorce.

[a Danny Thomas spit-take]

Great post, Melinda!   :lol

Melinda, can you tell us how many of y'all (you and your siblings) are musically inclined? Thanks!

Thanks, Melinda - I recall you saying to me some time ago he married then divorced someone so rapidly that not even the family knew until after the latter.

Question - Sue Oliver... or Sue Damon ? And did you ever meet Viggie ?

PS: the report of Dennis & 'Mike's wife' almost certainly refers to Suzanne.

In full, Ambha Lelia Lakshmi.  8)

That is a badass name.

She was first introduced to me as Linda Sue Damon. We called her Linda Sue. At some point, she dropped the Linda and was just Sue. Presumably because she didn't like her initials? I think Damon was her married name and she went back to Oliver when her divorce became final. My memory may be a bit fuzzy on this point, since this all occured when I was about 13.  I do remember that she was living in Hawaii and had been going out with Leon Russell before she met my dad.

Never met anyone named Viggie that I can recall.


I can carry a tune, frequently carrying it into the shower or my car, have terrible stage fright, but play a mean kazoo. So in my case, the musical talent skipped a generation. Both of my boys are very "into" guitar and hope to start their own band someday very soon.

Teresa took several years of piano lessons (as did I). She is extremely creative, artistic and an excellent golfer.

Hayleigh is very artistic and gifted. She writes music, plays piano and flute and has a beautiful, pure and sometimes haunting voice.

Christian writes music, sings,  plays guitar and bass. I was so thrilled to have the chance to see him perform live for the first time last night. He and his band played up at the Crystal Bay Club at Lake Tahoe. It was incredibly cool driving up to the casino and seeing his name in lights! ("Five Alarm featuring Christian Love") I was with my dad, my boys and lil bro Brian, their assorted girlfriends and lots of wonderful family friends. We all had a fabulous time. You may think that I'm a bit biased, but I definitely think he is a star.

Summer also can carry a tune. Don't know if she plays any instuments (I'll have to ask) She is the artist of the family. Still hoping to own one of her paintings someday!

Brian is a natural. He plays several instruments and has had stage presence since day one. If he wants to, he'll be a star.

Ambha is learning piano, has the sweet pure voice you'd expect from a 10 year old Love. She's our beautiful dancer.

Thanks for your thoughtful and informative posts, Melinda.

Melinda how did your mom and Mike meet and what did she do after the split career wise?

My mom (Fran) and dad met at Dorsey High School. He was on the track team. She was a cheerleader. My mom was in the same class as and in a group of friends with my dad's sister Maureen, which is how she got to know my dad. By the way, she and my Aunt Maureen are still friends. My dad and she are also on very friendly terms and have been for the last several years. We frequently spend holidays and other family occasions together.

As for her career, when I was very young, she was a buyer for Bullocks in Los Angeles. When my sister and I were school aged, she went to work with the LA County School District as an education aide. In her late 30s & early 40s, she put herself through college at Cal State Northridge then got her masters degree at UCLA. She is currently a registered dietician in Reno, NV.

Mike from "Brian's Back" - "You fell in love with a pretty cheerleader. I even married one." 

Hey, he really did!

I don't know about anybody else but for me Melinda's sharing helps put back a human dimension that gets flatten out by celebrity.

Absolutely, and like I said before, I'm really enjoying these glimpses into the Love world.  The Wilsons are certainly deserving of their attention, but I think Mike and Al still deserve a clearer look than they've had until this point.  Melinda, would you mind if I asked a few questions about your dad?

Thanks to Melinda for contributing. When I started this thread it wasn't meant as a dig at Mr. Love or anything, it was at genuine incredulity at the new names that keep cropping up whenever i'm reading a BB biography!

Thanks for the info about your parents Melinda. My parents still get along too though they split up and it is cool to be able to all see each other. 

Well said.

Melinda, your presence is a reminder that in a way, we are all Mike Love's children.

O.K., maybe not, but we sure love having' ya here!

My stab at a question: when bearing a new male Love-child, given the history of that line, do you worry about having fifty/sixty grandkids while still a relatively young woman? Grandkids are great, I'm sure, but that's a lot of "Danny Boy" being sung from one lap. 

You may have read my theory elsewhere that within the next century, one-sixth of the American population will be related to Mike.  It's a mathematical certainty. I'm pretty sure that's why he keeps touring.

Did you see the article on the uncanny-blog about Mike Love jr. ? Is it really true? I never have heard of him....

Well, according to Andrew, there is indeed a Mike Love Jr., and he seems to be about the right age.

Thanks for the info.  I don't know, he doesn't look that much like Mike imo.

Well Surfer Joe, my brother, this is a very serious issue (and something I haven't previously pondered), so I will most likely have to take a very long time to carefully consider my answer.

Meanwhile, I'd just like to thank everyne for the warm reception. I really don't mind answering questions as I can, although my input may be of limited value.

Regarding MEL II, sometimes very personal issues play out very publicly in the crazy world of celebrity. I would like to set the record straight, but I'm not sure that I can. What I can say, however, that he has recently been brought back into the family fold and I couldn't be more delighted. I look forward to seeing him again (after way too many years) next weekend with my dad in Las Vegas.

 :lol


Understandable- we obviously aren't very careful what we say on this board, but you have to be in some cases.  Our hobby/interest is your actual personal life...Thank God I don't have to field questions about my nutty family on here.  Regards to MEL2; if the sequel lives up to the original you're in for a wild ride!