How Foreign-Born Actress Jacqueline Bisset Made it in Hollywood

In the 1990s, she began a long relationship with Turkish martial arts instructor Emin Boztepe. It became another major non-marital partnership in a life often defined by lasting romances rather than formal marriage, and it showed how private she could remain despite public curiosity.

Boztepe also had children before they met, making Bisset a de facto stepmother figure during the relationship. That mattered because she was often asked why she never married or had children herself, questions that kept returning as her career moved forward.