Kokomo Tribune
Dec. 15, 1984
Singer Bette Midler is wed
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Flamboyant singer-actress Bette Midler and her husband are planning to leave for a Hawaiian honeymoon this week following a wedding her publicist said was low-key because “she didn’t want a zoo.”
Midler, 38, married Martin von Haselberg, a performance artist and commodities trader, Saturday In a private civil ceremony, Bob Gibson of The Group, her publicity representative, said Sunday.
In his stage persona of Harry Kipper, von Haselberg was one of the Kipper Kids, a duo whose stage act Included throwing food on the audience and each other.
It was Midler’s first marriage.
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