Birth name: John Francis Bongiovi

Spouse: Dorothea Hurley (April 29 April 1989 - present), 3 children

Trivia:
Musician/rock star turned actor

Chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world [1996]

Auditioned for the role of Ashe in Crow: City of Angels, The (1996), but was beat out by French actor Vincent Perez.

Appeared on the Star Wars Christmas album, "Christmas in the Stars". (as John Bongiovi)

The acoustical performance of "Livin' On A Prayer" and "Wanted Dead or Alive" that Jon and Richie Sambora performed at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards is widely acknowledged as being the genesis/greenlight for MTV's "Unplugged" series.

Given title "Sexiest Rock Star" from People Magazine. [November 2000]

Children, with Dorothea Hurley, Stephanie Rose (b. 1993) and Jesse James (b. 1995), Jacob Hurely(b.2002)

The song "August 7," off his solo album Destination Anywhere, is a tribute to his friend/manager Paul Korzilius' daughter Katherine. She died at the age of six under mysterious circumstances on August 7, 1996.

Personal quotes:
"This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it...Plus, being married and monogamous, it's the closest thing I can do to having sex without getting in trouble for it...The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure."--Movieline, February 1998