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Originally Posted by Minnie

Don't know why I didn't know it, but she was married to Rob Reiner from 1971-1981.

https://www.newsweek.com/who-penny-m...usband-1264236

“So sad about Penny,” he wrote. “I loved Penny. I grew up with her. She was born with a great gift. She was born with a funnybone and the instinct of how to use it. I was very lucky to have lived with her and her funnybone. I will miss her.”

Reiner and Marshall married in 1971, two years before of her success with Laverne & Shirley. They were married for 10 years, with Reiner adopting Tracy, the daughter she had with athlete Michael Henry when she was 19 years old. They shared three grandchildren together.

Even though they grew up on the same street in the Bronx they never knew each other, writing in her 2014 memoir, My Mother Was Nuts, that the street was “very wide.”

“We grew up across the street in the Bronx but didn’t know each other,” she told People magazine in 2012. “I loved him dearly.”