Danny Moder and Julia Roberts, 2021 | Danny Moder and Julia Roberts’s Taos, New Mexico home, 2002 | Julia Roberts, Hazel Moder, Phinnaues Moder, 2021 | Julia Roberts, 2018 | Source: Getty Images | Instagram.com/juliaroberts | Instagram.com/modermoder
Julia Roberts managed to build a strong marriage with a partner who’s not famous, and they’ve been married for over 20 years. She also put motherhood ahead of her career, pausing it for 20 years when she was almost 40. The star now lives an ordinary life with her family on a rural ranch where she secretly married her husband.
In the early spring of 2000, Julia Roberts met Danny Moder, a cameraman, on the set of “The Mexican.” Both were in relationships at the time, with the actress dating fellow actor Ben Bratt.
Danny was in a four-year marriage with his makeup artist wife, Vera Steimberg Moder. Some people close to the cameraman’s family said his marriage to his wife was strained, but the bond he started building with Julia pushed him to file for divorce in June 2001.
Danny Moder and his wife Julia Roberts on the set of “Mona Lisa Smile” on November 21, 2002 | Source: Getty Images
The “Pretty Woman” star was a frequent patron of the restaurants and shops near her lower Manhattan apartment when she was dating Bratt, but things changed after they broke up. When she began seeing a now-available Danny, she was rarely seen at her usual spots.
The pair, who’d become romantic, divided their time between Julia’s more than $5 million Taos ranch and the cameraman’s Los Angeles apartment. The actress bought the ranch in 1995 as a retreat from Hollywood life.
Julia Roberts and her husband Danny Moder leave the “Punch-Drunk Love” screening during the 10th Annual New York Film Festival on October 5, 2002, in New York City, New York | Source: Getty Images
The star lived a simple life at the ranch where she’d walk her many dogs, bond with neighbors, get takeout at Taos Cow, or dance and makeout in the evening with Danny at the Alley Cantina. It seemed the couple’s relationship was more than a temporary thing.
The actress’ alleged friend described the couple as loving, solid, and nonjudgmental. Bratt, on the other hand, married Talisa Soto,...
