Puppy the Bounty Hunter ( Duane Chapman ) David Howells/Shutterstock
Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman just lately learned he fathered a son whose birthday lands on a significant working day to the fact star.
“For the previous four decades, this working day was a terrible reminder of a person of the finest losses of my life,” Pet, 70, wrote via Instagram on Monday, June 26, which is the fourth anniversary of the demise of late wife Beth Chapman. “But God redeemed this day when I found my son Jon, who I just achieved not long ago, was born on this day. So now rather of sorrow, this working day has a new indicating. This is my son Jon and his spouse Jodi.”
The previous bail bondsman posted a picture of Jon and his wife embracing as they smiled for the digital camera. In the tribute, Dog teased that he would be speaking more about Jon in his future memoir Nine Lives and Counting, which will drop subsequent calendar year.
Beth — who was married to Dog for nearly 13 many years — died at age 51 in June 2019 just after a two-calendar year fight with throat and lung most cancers which led to her being put in a medically induced coma prior to her dying.
“For anybody who has experienced a terrible loss be sure to know God restores and redeems,” Pet penned in his Instagram publish about Jon and Beth. “Happy birthday son, enjoy you both of those.”
Duane Chapman and Beth Chapman Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock
Together with Jon, Dog is the father of 14 children from his previous marriages and associations. When he was a teenager, the Tv set temperament welcomed his very first baby, son Christopher with ex-girlfriend Debbie White. Pet dog went on to wed La Fonda Sue Darnell, with whom he shares Duane Lee II and Leeland. Soon after his break up from White, Canine moved on with his second spouse Ann Tegnell. The pair are the dad and mom of Wesley and James Robert, they also welcomed son Zebadiah, who died as an toddler. In his third relationship to Lyssa Rae Brittain, Pet welcomed Barbara Katie (who tragically died in a car or truck crash in 2006.), Tucker Dee and Lyssa Rae II.
Canine and Beth shared two children: Bonnie Joanne and Garry. Pet dog also adopted Beth’s daughter Cecily, whom she had from a preceding marriage.
Adhering to Beth’s passing, Dog started a whirlwind romance with Francie Frane whom he wed in September 2021. Ahead of the couple’s nuptials, Dog’s daughters Cecily and Bonnie exposed they weren’t invited to their father’s distinctive day. Right before the invitations went out, Bonnie claimed that her father was unfaithful to Beth.
“I had forgiven my father following my mother’s loss of life for many actions that I shouldn’t have,” she wrote by means of a now-deleted Twitter assertion in August 2021. “He would cheat on my mother all the time, and I hated him every time he did it, but forgave him for that for the reason that I wanted a marriage with my dad.”
At the time, Dog refuted the statements and completely explained to Us Weekly that was a person of the main motives why he and Frane experienced to “exclude” Bonnie and Cecily from the event.
“They’ve fallen in with a undesirable group and are performing with the wrong persons — I know for the reason that I’ve not only had dealings with them, but arrested them myself previously,” the Dog’s Most Required star claimed to Us.
