Phoenix's mother, Arlyn Sharon (née Dunetz), was born in New York, to Jewish parents of Hungarian-Jewish and Russian-Jewish descent.[3][4][5][6][7] Her father, John Lee Bottom, was from California and has English, German, and French ancestry.[3]
She was a member of the rock band The Causey Way with her sister Rain. She later made guest appearances on albums by Rain's band, the Papercranes.[citation needed]
Personal life
She became engaged to Casey Affleck on December 25, 2003, and gave birth to a son in Amsterdam.[8] Phoenix and Affleck married on June 3, 2006, in Savannah, Georgia[9] and had a second son.[10][11][12] In March 2016, Affleck and Phoenix publicly announced they were separating,[13] though it has been acknowledged that they separated in November 2015.[14] Phoenix filed a petition of divorce with the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles on August 1, 2017, citing "irreconcilable differences",[14] and it was finalized that year.[15]
In 2003, she and friends Odessa Whitmire and Ruby Canner opened the vintage clothing boutique Some Odd Rubies on Manhattan's Lower East Side.[16][17] It closed in 2012.[18]
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^ abPfefferman, Naomi (April 11, 2002). "The Days of Summer". Jewish Journal. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
^Nicklaus, Olivier (May 23–29, 2000). "Summer Phoenix". Les Inrockuptibles. No. 244. Archived from the original on July 15, 2006. Retrieved April 14, 2017.