Proving he’s never one to give up on love, Neil Diamond announced he was marrying Katie McNeil in 2011. “Good news coming from sunny LA/ and you’re the first I want to tell/ Katie & I just got engaged/ and I hope you wish us well,” Diamond tweeted. In 2012, the couple tied the knot. He was 71 and she was 42. “I’ve found the woman of my dreams,” he told Parade. “I definitely don’t feel like I’m 71. I feel like I did when I was between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn’t,” Diamond insisted.
According to The Telegraph, McNeil was a music video and concert film producer who also worked for the talent company that managed Diamond. “She campaigned with her boss Mr. Irving Azoff to handle my account. I guess because she loved my music so much,” Diamond said. “Or she thought it was a feather in her cap to be in charge of Neil Diamond. I would like to think it was the first one.”
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He admitted the romance had been a slow burn for him. “We worked together for a year or so, and we kind of fell in love, slowly,” Diamond shared. “I was interested in my work. But she wove her way into my heart, and I think she’s a great person. I realized that I was in love with her after a year or so.”
