Editing Lex Barker (section)

==Personal life==
[[File: Lex Barker Karen Kondazian May 1973.jpg|thumb|Barker with his fiancée [[Karen Kondazian]] in on May 1, 1973, a few days before Barker's death]]
Barker was married five times:
* Constance Rhodes Thurlow (1918–1975) (married June 27, 1942–divorced 1950),{{sfn|Michael|Parish|1969|p=52}} a daughter of Leon Rhodes Thurlow, a vice president of the Decorated Metal Manufacturing Company.<ref name="ReferenceA">"Mrs. Barker's Nuptials", ''The New York Times'', September 12, 1952</ref> They had one daughter, Lynn Thurlow Barker (April 11, 1943 – 2010), and a son, Alexander "Zan" Crichlow Barker III (March 25, 1947 – October 2, 2012). In 1952, Constance Barker married her second husband, John Lawrence Adams, a descendant of [[John Quincy Adams]].<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
* Actress [[Arlene Dahl]] (married 1951–divorced 1952){{sfn|Michael|Parish|1969|p=52}}
* Actress [[Lana Turner]] (married September 8, 1953–divorced July 22, 1957).{{sfn|Michael|Parish|1969|p=52}} Turner's daughter [[Cheryl Crane]] later accused Barker of having repeatedly raped her when she was between the ages of 10 ½ and 13.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2023-06-08 |title=Two Survivors: The Scandalous Saga of Lana Turner and Cheryl Crane |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/06/lana-turner-cheryl-crane-books |access-date=2023-12-22 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/books/2008/11/26/kid-stays-picture |work=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]|title=The Kid Stays in the Picture |first=Greg |last=Archer |date=November 26, 2008 |archive-date=January 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130105050649/http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/books/2008/11/26/kid-stays-picture }}</ref> and that this was the reason for the breakup of the marriage. According to Crane, to avoid public scandal, no charges were ever filed. 
* Irene Labhardt (married 1957–1962; her death from leukemia), a Swiss actress. They had one son, Christopher (born 1960), who became an actor and singer.{{sfn|Michael|Parish|1969|p=52}}
* [[Carmen Cervera|Tita Cervera]] (married 1965–divorced 1972, although divorce not deemed legally valid), a Spanish beauty-pageant winner. Voted Miss Spain in 1962, she later became the wife of movie producer Espartaco Santoni in 1975 (the marriage turned out to be bigamous) and later still, in 1985, the fifth and final wife of billionaire art collector [[Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Curti |first=Roberto |date=2013 |title=Italian Crime Filmography, 1968–1980 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4VxOAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA228 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland & Company |page=228 |isbn=978-0-7864-6976-5}}</ref>