Inside Bridget Fonda’s colorful dating history which includes a country singer, an actor, and a writer

While Bridget Fonda has enjoyed 22 years of marriage to Danny Elfman, her romantic past has included a number of intriguing relationships.

Daughter of actor Peter Fonda, Bridget, 61, was a prominent figure in Hollywood during the late 1980s and 1990s, starring in films like The Godfather Part III, Single White Female, and Jackie Brown. 

She famously retired from acting in 2002 to focus on family, and went on to marry film composer Danny in 2003. Together, they share one son, Oliver, 20.  

Bridget — who recently showed off her dramatic weight loss in a rare sighting — was spotted in January without her wedding ring, amid Elfman’s legal woes.

In July, Elfman, 71, was hit with a defamation lawsuit by a woman who previously accused him of serving her a martini glass filled with semen. 

Prior to Elfman, Fonda enjoyed an eclectic dating life. Delving back into Fonda’s romantic past, which includes a country singer, an actor, and a writer, DailyMail.com takes a look back at her dating history. 

Lee Drysdale (1986 – 1989)

Fonda’s first notable romance was that with filmwriter Lee Drysdale.

Fonda, grand-daughter of Hollywood legend Henry Fonda, is one of very few third-generation film stars. 

At 18, Fonda enrolled at New York University and spent four years studying there and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. 

She went on to hone her craft in workshop productions and worked on such stage projects as Just Horrible, written by Nicholas Kazan, who later cast Fonda in his directorial debut, Professional Man.

She also starred in Jacob Have I Loved and in a segment of Aria, a film composed of short works by 10 respected directors. 

In the late 1980s, she shared a house with Lee. 

The two were also pictured on some red carpets together. 

In 1989 they were seen attending the premiere of her film Shag, and were pictured holding hands. 

It is believed their romance ended sometime around 1989. 

Drysdale wrote and directed the 1991 action/drama film, Leather Jackets, which starred Fonda as Claudi, the love interest of Mickey (played by D.B. Sweeney.) 

Eric Stoltz (1990 – 1998)

After Lee, she spent most of the 1990s living with actor Eric Stoltz, 63.

The two met in 1986, and started dating in 1990.

In 1997 they attended the premiere of Jackie Brown together at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City.

Bridget looked chic in a black dress, while Eric rocked a black leather jacket.

They were also seen at the Hollywood premiere of ‘Beauty and the Beast’, held at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles, California, in 1991. 

Their relationship ended in 1998. 

Eric went on to marry Bernadette Moley in 2005. 

Stoltz has appeared in a wide variety of films, including Some Kind of Wonderful, Pulp Fiction, Killing Zoe, and Kicking and Screaming. 

Dwight Yoakam (1999 – 2002)

She was also romantically linked with country singer and actor Dwight Yoakam, 68.

The two appeared together in the 2000 movie South of Heaven, West of Hell.

Yoakam has had a string of hit singles, including Guitars, Cadillacs, Fast as You, and A Thousand Miles from Nowhere. 

He has won multiple Grammy awards. 

The two were pictured attending the Grammy Awards in 2000.

They happily posed on the red carpet, with Jane rocking a gold blouse and a shimmering maxi skirt.

Meanwhile Yoakam was pictured in a grey cowboy hat and a long coat.

They are rumored to have started dating in 1999, before their split in 2002. 

Yoakam also once dated actress Sharon Stone.

Danny Elfman (2002 – present) 

Fonda sustained a serious vertebra fracture in a February 2003 car crash.

The next month, she became engaged to Elfman, film composer and former Oingo Boingo frontman, and they married that November.

In 2005, they welcomed their son.

Bridget famously retired from acting in 2002 to focus on raising a family with her composer spouse.

Years ago she said that she prefers civilian life and has no plans to return to Hollywood.

There has been some bad news for Danny.

In July, Elfman was hit with a defamation lawsuit by a woman who previously accused him of serving her a martini glass filled with semen.

Nomi Abadi, a 36-year-old composer, had previously sued Elfman for breach of contract after alleging that he had failed to pay her a portion of a settlement they had previously agreed to.

In a 2023 Rolling Stone piece, Abadi made the accusation involving the martini glass, which elicited a vigorous denial from Elfman. 

But now Abadi is taking Elfman to court over his response to her claims with a new defamation lawsuit. She is suing the Oingo Boingo singer and songwriter — who was also been sued by a second woman for alleged sexual abuse — for denying her account, which she claims is tantamount to calling her a liar, according to the lawsuit obtained by TMZ.

In Abadi’s defamation suit, which was filed by the attorney Eric M. George, she reiterated her claims that Elfman gave her a martini glass filled with semen.

She says she was invited to Elfman’s studio in August of 2016, when she was allegedly presented with the martini glass bearing a whitish substance.

Abadi describes how she ‘sat in silence, terrified, gagging from the putrid smell coming from … semen ejaculate.’

She also claims that Elfman made a comment about former President Donald Trump, who was only a candidate at the time.

It’s unclear what sentiment the Batman composer expressed, but Abadi says she responded by sharing her support for Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Bernie Sanders.

Elfman allegedly responded, ‘We can’t have a Jew running our country,’ though it’s unclear if Abadi took his words to be a tasteless joke or a sincere statement.

The Rolling Stone report cited a police report filed by Abadi in November 2017, in which she claimed that Elfman had exposed his genitals and masturbated in her presence — without her consent — multiple times.

In the wake of the accusations, Elfman agreed to a 2018 settlement and nondisclosure agreement with Abadi.

But she sued the musician in 2023 for breach of contract for allegedly failing to pay all of the agreed-upon $830,000.

Abadi claimed he had failed to make two payments, one due in 2019 and one in 2021, which totaled $85,000.

‘How do I respond to accusations so serious that being innocent is not a valid defense? It is excruciating to consider that a 50-year career may be destroyed in one news cycle as a result of vicious and wholly false allegations about sexual misconduct,’ began Elfman’s florid denial.

‘Ms. Abadi’s allegations are simply not true,’ he continued.

He also claimed Abadi had described him as her ‘childhood crush’ and that she planned to ‘break up’ his marriage to Bridget, who he’s been married to since 2003.

Elfman claimed to have ‘done nothing indecent or wrong,’ and he said he had ‘voluminous evidence that these accusations are false.’

A representative for Elfman later said that his ‘limited interactions’ with Abadi ‘did not involve sexual contact’ and ‘were fully consensual.’

Elfman’s representatives also claimed that the martini glass was not filled with semen, but instead was filled with the moisturizing cream Cetaphil.

A photo of the glass with a white substance was emailed to Abadi before her meeting with Elfman in which he allegedly presented it to her in person.

The representative said the martini glass and its contents were ‘designed to be a stupid photo prop’ for a photoshoot, and they said ‘Ms. Abadi knew that.’

Now Abadi is suing Elfman for defamation and requesting unreported damages over his denials.

She says her statements to Rolling Stone were truthful, and she says Elfman’s statements, which she characterized as lies, had damaged her career as a composer and performer and had led her to suffer health problems.