Alison, Stern’s First Wife
Stern met his first wife, Alison Berns, at Boston University through a mutual friend. Alison had captured his heart, and according to Stern, he knew she’d be his wife within a week. They married in 1978 at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Massachusetts, when they were both 24 years old.
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Unfortunately, the pair ended their relationship in 1999 before divorcing amicably in 2011. Stern blamed his work for the couple’s divorce. He acknowledged being “totally neurotic and sort of consumed with work” and that he saw work as “the most important thing and the only thing.”