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Ellison has been married and divorced four times. He married Adda Quinn in 1967. They divorced in 1974.[1][failed verification] Ellison married Nancy Wheeler Jenkins in 1977, six months before Ellison founded Software Development Laboratories. In 1978, the couple divorced.[2][failed verification] Wheeler sold back her shares in Development Laboratories (SDL) to Ellison for $500.[3] Ellison was married to Barbara Boothe from 1983 to 1986.[citation needed] Boothe was a former receptionist at Relational Software Inc. (RSI).[4] They had two children, David and Megan, who are film producers at Skydance Media and Annapurna Pictures, respectively.[5] On December 18, 2003, Ellison Married Melanie Craft, a romance novelist, at his Woodside estate. Ellison's friend Steve Jobs, former CEO and co-founder of Apple Inc., was the official wedding photographer,[6] and Representative Tom Lantos officiated. They divorced in 2010.[7]

  1. ^ Symonds, Matthew; Ellison, Larry (2004). Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 57, 64–65, 84, 310, 337–42, 348–54. ISBN 978-0-7432-2505-2.
  2. ^ Symonds, Matthew; Ellison, Larry (2004). Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 57, 64–65, 84, 310, 337–42, 348–54. ISBN 978-0-7432-2505-2.
  3. ^ Symonds, Matthew; Ellison, Larry (2004). Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 351. ISBN 978-0-7432-2505-2.
  4. ^ Symonds, Matthew; Ellison, Larry (2004). Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 352. ISBN 978-0-7432-2505-2.
  5. ^ Masters, Kim (December 5, 2012). "Producer Siblings Megan and David Ellison Betting Big on Holiday Box Office". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on February 18, 2014. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
  6. ^ Zinko, Carolyne; Kirby, Carrie (January 14, 2004). "Larry Ellison's most important merger". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on December 9, 2008. Retrieved October 29, 2009.
  7. ^ Lashinsky, Adam (October 29, 2010). "Larry Ellison's surreal year". Fortune. CNN. Archived from the original on November 2, 2010.