Legendary rocker Bruce Springsteen has been married twice, first to actress Julianne Phillips and then to E Street Band member Patti Scialfa
Bruce Springsteen has never shied away from recounting the highs and lows of his personal life in his deeply confessional songs.
The legendary rocker — whose life and career inspired the 2025 biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White — drew from his love live in his songwriting from the earliest days of his career, including reportedly writing his classic 1978 song “Candy’s Room” about a tempestuous fling with artist Karon Bihari.
A marriage to actress Julianne Phillips coincided with the height of Springsteen’s popularity in the mid-1980s, but their relationship was short-lived and the musician channeled his disappointment into his soul-bearing 1987 album Tunnel of Love.
Springsteen officially got together with E Street Band member Patti Scialfa shortly after his first marriage broke down and they’ve been together ever since. The couple share three children: sons Evan and Samuel, and daughter Jessica.
Keep scrolling for a look back at Springsteen’s two marriages:
A few of Springsteen’s early relationships are documented, including being with actress Joyce Hyser for four years in the 1980s.
Springsteen dated photographer Lynn Goldsmith and model Karen Darvin, though his most notable early relationship was with Karon Bihari. In 2002, she told The National Inquirer that Springsteen wrote his rollicking Darkness on the Edge of Town track “Candy’s Room” about their love life.
“The lyrics described my little apartment, what we talked about, when we kissed,” she recalled. “ It was the most romantic thing anyone had ever done for me. Bruce wasn’t all over the place screwing around with all these girls — and that’s what I liked about him.”
By the mid-1980s, Springsteen began performing with guitarist Patti Scialfa as part of his E Street Band. The two reportedly grew close throughout the Born in the U.S.A. Tour, before Springsteen abruptly married someone else.
Julianne Phillips met Springsteen in late 1984 and married him only seven months later at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Lake Oswego, Oregon, in May 1985.
