BetteBack: Who’s The Father Of Bette’s Baby?

Sunday Intelligencer
Personality Parade
11-02-1986

Q Bette Midler is supposed to be pregnant by ”¢ her husband, a German businessman named Harry Kipper. But today I picked up a magazine that says Bette Midler is pregnant by her husband Martin von Haselberg. What is the true story? –Dorothy Watanabe, Honolulu, Hawaii

A Bette Midler, 40, and Harry Kipper (real name: Martin von Haselberg), 37, were wed m Las Vegas in 1984. They expect a child any day, if it hasn’t arrived already.