... He married the actress Adah Isaacs Menken on April 3, 1859, but by October 1861, she was "united to R. H. Newell, the humorist".
Heenan and Menken were divorced in 1862 by an Indiana court.
According to a biography of the actress: "it was generally known that Heenan had treated her in the most brutal and ignominious manner." ...