Relationships and children
Dash has two children, a son named Austin, born from her relationship with singer
Christopher Williams, and a daughter named Lola.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-enc-8"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a><a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-abc7-42"><span>[</span>39<span>]</span></a> In 1999, she married producer Brian Lovell and they divorced in the mid-2000s.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-enc-8"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a><a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-abc7-42"><span>[</span>39<span>]</span></a> From 2005 to 2006, Dash was married to British executive James Maby, CEO of Sports Logistics.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-BravoMaby-43"><span>[</span>40<span>]</span></a> Different sources say the father of Dash's daughter is either Lovell<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-abc7-42"><span>[</span>39<span>]</span></a> or Maby.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-BravoMaby-43"><span>[</span>40<span>]</span></a><a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-hollywood.com-6"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a> Dash married actor Emmanuel Xuereb in either 2007<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-hollywood.com-6"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a> or 2009.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-abc7-42"><span>[</span>39<span>]</span></a> She filed for divorce in January 2010. It was finalized in September 2011.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-44"><span>[</span>41<span>]</span></a><a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-abc7-42"><span>[</span>39<span>]</span></a> Dash married lawyer Jeffrey Marty in Florida on April 6, 2018. She has said that she met Marty ten days before the wedding. In addition to her two children, Dash became a step-mother to three of Marty's children.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-45"><span>[</span>42<span>]</span></a> In April 2020, Dash announced that she and Marty had separated.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-46"><span>[</span>43<span>]</span></a> In June 2020, Dash filed for divorce.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-47"><span>[</span>44<span>]</span></a>
Dash has spoken openly about past traumas in her personal life. She has at various times revealed that she was
molested as a child by a family friend, was addicted to
cocaine in her teens and 20s, and has a history of being with physically and emotionally abusive partners.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-Abuse-48"><span>[</span>45<span>]</span></a> Dash has attributed her openness with such topics to her desire to be honest with her children, feeling that being honest is the best way to protect them, and to let them and others know that she is not a victim but a survivor.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-Abuse-48"><span>[</span>45<span>]</span></a> She is supportive of the
right to keep and bear arms, crediting the use of a gun with saving her life after being sexually assaulted at gunpoint by an ex-boyfriend, because she was able to retrieve her own weapon, a
.22 revolver, and shot at him, scaring him away.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-49"><span>[</span>46<span>]</span></a>
Dash was arrested on September 29, 2019, at her apartment in
Pasco County, Florida, on a domestic battery charge after an argument with her husband, Jeffrey Marty.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-50"><span>[</span>47<span>]</span></a> She pleaded not guilty,<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-51"><span>[</span>48<span>]</span></a> and the case was dropped on October 3 at the request of Marty, who said Dash had been arrested over his objection.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-52"><span>[</span>49<span>]</span></a> The couple's divorce was announced the following year.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-53"><span>[</span>50<span>]</span></a>
In October 2021, Dash opened up about her
Vicodin addiction on
The Dr. Oz Show, stating that she was five years sober.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-54"><span>[</span>51<span>]</span></a>
Religion
Dash was raised
Catholic, and claimed the religion in 2012 and 2013.<a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-55"><span>[</span>52<span>]</span></a><a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-56"><span>[</span>53<span>]</span></a><a href="
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Dash#cite_note-57"><span>[</span>54<span>]</span></a>
