honor of the 24th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. Bren serves on the board of trustees at Caltech and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He was elected a Fellow with the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2007 in the category of Business, Corporate and Philanthropic Leadership. Personal life Bren has been married three times: His first marriage was to Diane Bren and they had three children: Cary Bren (born 1959), served as president of Orange County home builder California Pacific Homes. Steve Bren (born 1960), a former professional auto racing driver and real estate developer. His second marriage was to Mardelle Bren in 1977. They had one daughter: Ashley Bren (born 1968) In May 1998, Bren, an Episcopalian, married Brigitte Muller, an entertainment lawyer born in La Jolla, California, in a church ceremony at the All Saints Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills, California. He and his wife reside in Newport Beach, California. They had a son in 2003. Bren also has three children by two former companions. Bren keeps a low public profile and as he explains, "I'm not a public official. I'm a businessman, I'm a builder, I'm a planner... And if I feel that I've done the job well, that's the satisfaction I get, not from doing interviews or being more public." OC Weekly described Bren in 2005 as "one of the nation's least public billionaires", who guards his privacy "jealously". The Los Angeles Times that year canceled a pending article discussing how the fictional Caleb Nichol of the popular television show The O.C. was based on Bren, allegedly because the Irvine Company threatened to withdraw advertising. The Times denied the allegation and stated that the story was canceled for timing reasons. Politics Bren supported Republican Pete Wilson's Senate and gubernatorial campaigns, and Democrat Dianne Feinstein, whom he calls "a great senator for California." References External links Biography at the Irvine Company Donald Bren, Chairman of the Board of the Irvine Company Biography at UCI's Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Donald Bren: Southern California's richest man in his own words by Los Angeles Times 1932 births Living people American billionaires American philanthropists American real estate businesspeople Businesspeople from California Philanthropists from California California Institute of Technology trustees Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences United States Marines University of Washington Foster School of Business alumni American people of