Wrestling icon Hulk Hogan died at age 71 after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in Florida on July 24, authorities said.
The City of Clearwater, Florida, said in a statement to NBC News Hogan was treated by local fire and rescue crews before he was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The WWE star, born Terry Bollea, died surrounded loved ones, manager Chris Volo told NBC Los Angeles. Hogan is survived by his wife, Sky Daily, and two children: Brooke and Nick Hogan.
Before his recent marriage to Daily in 2023, he married Jennifer McDaniel in 2010. In 2022, Hogan shared on social media that he was “officially divorced.” He was married to his first wife, Linda Hogan, from 1983 to 2009. Hulk Hogan shared Brooke and Nick with Linda Hogan.
Keep reading for more about Hogan’s three wives.
Sky Daily
Hulk Hogan and Daily got married in September 2023. Hogan shared an Instagram post at the time about the event, writing, “My new life starts now!”
Months before, he posted a photo of himself hanging out on the beach with Daily in June 2023.
“It always seems just perfect, like she’s always been here,” he wrote in the caption of his Instagram post.
He also posted photos with her in honor of his 70th birthday.
“70 years young and happier than I’ve ever been!” he wrote in the caption of an August 2023 Instagram post.
For the Fourth of July in 2024, he posted an Instagram photo of him and Daily kissing.
“My wife, my life! Sky, thank you for the fireworks! Happy Fourth of July!” he wrote in the caption.
Jennifer McDaniel
Hogan and Jennifer McDaniel married in December 2010, the Associated Press reported at the time, one year after his divorce with his previous wife, Linda Hogan, was finalized.
The pair was together for more than a decade, before Hogan announced their divorce on social media in 2022.
“Yo Maniacs just for the record, the Facebook and Instagram posts are of me and my girlfriend Sky, I am officially divorced,” he said in a post on X. “Sorry I thought everyone already knew, love my Maniacs4Life.”
Linda Hogan
Hogan met his first wife, Linda Claridge, at a venue called the Red Onion outside of Los Angeles, he wrote in his 2009 memoir, “My Life Outside the Ring.”
Hogan wrote that she asked him to dance, and he said no. But he later bought her a drink.
“After that initial meeting at the Red Onion, she played hard to get and that drove me wild,” he wrote. “I kept calling her and calling her.”
“I was completely hooked from day one,” he added.
After about a year and a half of dating, Hogan proposed, and the pair married in LA on Dec. 18, 1983.
He wrote that they didn’t have time for a traditional honeymoon, but that they both traveled for his wrestling matches.
“Staying in different hotel rooms and partying every night, those first few years felt like a honeymoon that never ended,” he wrote.
The couple welcomed their first child, Brooke, in 1988, and their second child, Nick, in 1990.
The family appeared on the reality TV show “Hogan Knows Best,” which premiered in 2005 and ran for four seasons.
Hogan also wrote in his book about an affair he said he had with a woman in her 30s.
Hogan said his wife had “no idea.”
Linda Hogan filed for divorce in November 2007, according to court records the Tampa Bay Times obtained.
Hulk Hogan spoke about the proceedings in an interview with Access Hollywood in 2008, according to NBC News.
“This is a simple divorce — there’s no custody, there’s just a big pile of junk that we’ve accumulated. We should split it however the judge wants it and walk away, but, you know, my wife’s lawyer has told different magazines there’s gonna be a war,” he said. “This is the money that I saved for my family, and money that Linda could walk away with, money that I saved for my children, that they’re just, they’re just wasting (it) and burning (it) up.”
The pair finalized their divorce in 2009, The Associated Press reported at the time.
