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One of Barbara Walters' most famous exes is Donald Trump's former lawyer, Roy Cohn. In Susan Page's 2024 biography "The Rulebreaker," she shared that the famed journalist's father introduced her to his lawyer when she was 25. According to the SF Gate, although Barbara was mostly apolitical at the time, she still disliked Cohn due to his work for the controversial senator Joseph McCarthy.

So, when Barbara's father, Lou Walters, mentioned to Cohn that she was eager to meet him, she corrected him and truthfully stated that wasn't the case at all. Yet, against all odds, Walters still struck a romantic connection with Cohn, who was a closeted gay man. In Page's book, she claimed that Trump's fixer had asked for Barbara's hand

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