Coley Laffoon, born as Coleman Laffoon on October 7, 1973, in Cincinnati, Ohio, has made his living as a cameraman. However, according to Heche, he spends his living on poker and other forms of gambling, as well as porn and strip clubs. His father is Polk Laffoon IV, the vice-president of corporate relations for newspaper conglomerate Knight-Ridder.
After attending the University of Florida, Laffoon began his career in the camera and electrical department, but didn’t reach any form of celebrity status until 2001, when he worked as the camera crew for the TV special Ellen DeGeneres: American Summer Documentary. During the filming, Heche, who was the documentary’s director and who was at the time involved in a much-publicized lesbian relationship with Ellen, met Laffoon.
The two fell in love, prompting Heche to leave her intensely committed relationship with DeGeneres and instead marry Laffoon later that year, in September 1, 2001—guess Coley’s got the power to make gay women straight! However, Heche is a reported bisexual, having dated Steve Martin for two years and Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham for one, before hooking up with DeGeneres.
On March 2, 2002, a son, little Homer Heche Laffoon, was born to Laffoon and Heche in a Los Angeles hospital, the couple’s first (and only) child. Two years later, Laffoon appeared as an extra (a waiter, to be precise) in the made-for-TV mystery-thriller film, The Dead Will Tell, in which Heche starred as Emily Parker alongside Kathleen Quinlan, Chris Sarandon, Eva Longoria, and David Andrews.
While Laffoon’s performance there really did nothing for his career, his recent marital difficulties have definitely put him back into the limelight! Laffoon filed for divorce earlier this year for "irreconcilable differences" (Right, it likely had more to do with the fact that Heche cheated on him with her Men in Trees co-star—and current boyfriend—James Tupper). Since then, the ex-couple has been involved in a high-profile, ugly divorce/custody/furniture battle involving nasty accusations with Laffoon claiming Heche’s a cheating, psychotic, mentally unstable thief, and Heche accusing the stay-at-home-dad Laffoon as a sex-oholic and money-obsessed gambler.
Laffoon has current temporary custody of little Homer, while Heche is off shooting her new season of Men in Trees.
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