Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been married for five years. For Harry, it was his first wedding, but Meghan had previously tied the knot with Trevor Engelson. Unfortunately, that marriage ended poorly.
Currently, both Meghan and Trevor are in happy marriages. Interestingly, Trevor, the former husband of the Suits actress, has an impressive net worth, and his career might come as a surprise.
Details about Trevor’s life are scarce. However, a friend recently shared insights about past events and how Trevor managed to get his “revenge” on the Duchess.
While at the beginning of what was to be a successful acting career, Meghan met her first husband, Trevor Engelson. According to IMDb, he was born on October 23, 1976, in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, and attended the University of Southern California’s School of Communications.
Who is Meghan Markle’s ex-husband Trevor Engelson?
Engelson started his career in the film industry as a production assistant and gradually moved up to become a film producer. He has worked on several projects, including the 2010 movie Remember Me, which starred Robert Pattinson. His then-girlfriend Meghan Markle made a brief appearance in this film during the early stages of her acting career.
Additionally, Engelson has been involved in productions such as License to Wed and All About Steve, and he was the executive producer for six episodes of the Heathers television reboot. More recently, he found notable success with the FX series Snowfall, which wrapped up its sixth and final season earlier this year. This series was produced by his management and production company, Underground, located in Beverly Hills, California.
According to Grazia, the 45-year-old also represents screenwriters, novelists, actors, and film directors in Los Angeles when he is not working on film and television projects.
So, how did Trevor and Meghan Markle meet? According to The Sun, they crossed paths for the first time in 2004. The couple dated for about seven years before marrying in September 2011. Their wedding took place at the Jamaica Inn in Ocho Rios in Jamaica and lasted for three days.
According to The Sun, the couple arranged for around 100 guests to attend parties, drinking games at the beach, brunches, and even a wheelbarrow race. The ceremony? Well, that only took 15 minutes.
As mentioned, Meghan was one of the briefcase models on the game show Deal or No Deal. However, according to the author Andrew Morton’s book Meghan: A Hollywood Princess, Trevor wasn’t too keen on seeing her while she was on set.
Trevor Engelson was ‘to busy’ to visit his wife
According to Morton (via Express), Engelson didn’t visit her as other husbands or friends of the models did, which was “unusual.” Apparently, this was because he was occupied with his work as a producer and even skipped out on traveling with Meghan during her downtime because of it.
They were ambitious people, and Trevor was just as occupied, if not more so, than his girlfriend, noted royal biographer Andrew Morton in his book, Meghan: A Hollywood Princess.
Interestingly, unlike the partners of her fellow Deal or No Deal models, Trevor never came to visit Meghan on set.
This absence was so striking that it drew comments from the other women. In contrast, many celebrities, particularly athletes, frequently visited, with some clearly eager to connect with the models, he remarked.
In 2011, the same year Meghan and Trevor tied the knot, Meghan Markle made her debut on the TV series Suits. The show quickly became a hit, leading her to relocate to Toronto, where most of the filming took place.
Meghan secured the role only a few months before her wedding to Trevor, and the necessity of a five-hour flight to be together posed a challenge for their married life. They maintained their connection through video calls, but this did not alleviate the difficulties they faced.
Andrew Morton noted in Meghan: A Hollywood Princess that “whether she wanted to acknowledge it or not, Meghan, who had previously claimed she couldn’t envision life without Trevor, was now creating a new life for herself.”
Meghan Markle allegedly posted her wedding ring to Trevor Engelson
As Toronto increasingly felt like home for her over Los Angeles, the nature of their relationship gradually changed.
Markle remained on Suits for over 100 episodes until 2018. However, by 2013, she and Trevor Engelson had ended their marriage. They attributed their split to “irreconcilable differences.”
Later, Markle’s half-brother Thomas mentioned to Express that Trevor “worshipped the ground she walked on.”
“Trevor was devastated at the split,” an insider told The Sun in 2017.
She abruptly ran out of time for him. Meghan shattered Trevor’s heart, plain and simple. He remains in love with her, and learning about her new relationship with Harry has deeply affected him.
Royal biographer Andrew Morton indicated that the breakup surprised Trevor, noting that Meghan even sent him her engagement and wedding rings as a clear indication that their marriage was over.
“As Toronto was becoming more her home than LA, the dynamics in their relationship subtly altered. She was her own woman now, earning a steady income, making new friends on set and off, no longer dependent on her husband’s connections.”
Separated in 2013
The fallout between Meghan and Trevor appears to have been quite intense. This sentiment is echoed by Meghan’s childhood friend Nikki Priddy and author Lady Colin Campbell.
In her book, Meghan and Harry: The Real Story, Campbell notes that after relocating to Toronto, Meghan started socializing with celebrities, including stylist Jesica Mulroney.
This shift caused the former Suits actress to grow apart from her then-husband.
“Trevor was always easygoing, while she was more controlling,” Lady Colin Campbell observed.
“He would show up for meetings a bit late and looking unkempt, with his shirt untucked and perhaps a bit of food on his lapel, while Meghan was always impeccably dressed and composed.”
Meghan Markle and Trevor Engelson ended their marriage in 2013. What transpired afterward? While Meghan’s journey is well-documented, Trevor, despite being a recognized producer, has largely stayed out of the limelight, avoiding interviews and headlines.
After splitting from Meghan, Trevor dated Bethenny Frenkel, known from Real Housewives of New York.
In an interview with the Australia Kyle and Jackie O Show in April 2018, she revealed that they were dating – and knew about his history with Meghan.
I encountered him in Chicago, where we planned to go out. I only saw him once, but he kept texting me. He works as a producer in LA. He mentioned that he was previously married and is now divorced. His ex-wife is Meghan Markle, who starred in the TV show Suits.
This is Trevor Engelson today – wife, children
She remarked, “We skipped the romantic angle and focused on the business side. Yet, there’s something intriguing about collaborating on a TV project with Meghan Markle’s ex.”
Despite their breakup years ago, remnants of their past seemed to linger. In 2017, Fox reported that Engelson was set to co-produce a show centered on a man navigating shared custody after his ex-wife married a British prince.
The premise sounds quite familiar, doesn’t it? According to Deadline at the time, “the lead characters are not based on Markle or Engelson.” To this day, the show has not advanced beyond the pilot stage.
Engelson and Frankel didn’t work out. However, shortly after, Meghan’s ex-husband found true love.
Four years after his split from Meghan, he started a relationship with Tracey Kurland. The couple married on May 11, 2019, just over a year after Harry and Meghan’s lavish wedding at St George’s Chapel.
While Harry and Meghan have amassed considerable wealth through their Netflix deal and Harry’s inheritance, the Duchess’s financial standing is still not on par with Trevor and his wife’s.
Tracey Kurland’s father made around $500 million in the mortgage industry. Sadly, he passed away in 2021. At the time, reports suggested that Tracey inherited around $250 million.
Meghan crushed him when she demanded a divorce, friend says
Since their marriage, the couple has welcomed two daughters: Ford Grace Engelson, born in August 2020, and Sienna Lee Engelson, born in November 2021.
The conclusion of Meghan and Trevor’s marriage was certainly not what either of them desired. They have largely remained silent about the details. However, an anonymous friend of Trevor has disclosed that he was profoundly heartbroken in the aftermath.
However, today, the friend says, he has gotten his “revenge:”
“For a long time, things were difficult for Trevor. He’s a good guy, but Meghan crushed him when she demanded a divorce. When she took up with Prince Harry, he was crushed all over again because he was constantly reminded of her because of the publicity around the marriage and then the drama of the Oprah interview. But that’s all in the past now,” the friend told the Daily Mail.
Recently, when I saw him, he couldn’t stop talking about how happy he is, how much he enjoys being a dad, and how fulfilled he feels.
Engelson’s friend remarked, “Everyone around Trevor knows to avoid the ‘M’ word. He’s moved on, and in many ways, he seems to be living a better life than Meghan. He likely has more money than she does now; he’s pursuing his passions and staying out of the limelight. It’s the perfect form of revenge.”
As reported by the Daily Mail, Trevor Engelson and his wife reside in an affluent neighborhood in Los Angeles. He is said to cherish his wife and children, and when he’s with them, he’s always smiling, according to his friend who spoke to the news outlet.
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