Rob Schneider’s 3rd Wife Is Divorcing the MAGA Grifter 

The Hollywood social club of divorced, entirely MAGA-dependent male actors whose family members will no longer talk to them is seemingly renewing/upgrading/boosting the membership of one of its founding members: Onetime Saturday Night Live star and prominent Adam Sandler crony Rob Schneider.

News broke on Wednesday that the star of Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo—whose performances also inspired the title of Roger Ebert’s book Your Movie Sucks—is in the middle of his third divorce from producer/actress Patricia Schneider, formerly Patricia Azarcoya. The filing claims the marriage is “irretrievably broken and there is no possibility of reconciliation.”

This one at least lasted longer than Schneider’s first two marriages, as Patricia filed for divorce in a Maricopa County family court after 15 years, in which the couple frequently collaborated on projects such as Netflix sitcom Real Rob, which ran from 2015 to 2017. They have two children together, a 13-year-old and a 9-year-old. It’s unclear what Azarcoya is asking for in terms of custody, but it’s worth revisiting Schnider’s incredibly strained relationship with his eldest daughter from his first marriage to London King from 1988 to 1990, singer-songwriter Elle King.

The “Ex’s & Oh’s” singer has spoken on several occasions about the contentious off-and-on relationship she’s had with her father over the years, saying that four or five years typically pass between them speaking. On the Dumb Blonde podcast in 2024, King said that Schneider had sent her to a “fat camp” when she was a teenager, and had simultaneously forgotten her 18th birthday, among other things. In recent years, she’s seemingly grown especially disgusted by Schneider’s pivot to extreme right-wing political signaling and the associated bigotry that comes with it, saying that, in general, “I don’t want to be associated with him.”

Schneider later tried to reconcile with the singer via an apology delivered on … The Tucker Carlson Show (gag), which shockingly did not have the desired effect. You can hardly blame King for being unnerved by a lot of things about her father, such as the fact that he reportedly met Patricia Azarcoya when he was 44 and she was 19 years old. Currently 37, Azarcoya is merely 10 months older than Elle King—now there’s a fun stepmom-stepdaughter dynamic.

It’s difficult to imagine how Schneider’s latest fractured relationship and home life could be anything other than directly related to the dramatic political pivot he’s embraced in the post-pandemic era, in particular, which we’re guessing probably also aligns with when he started wearing his tiny trilby hats at every public appearance, like a pint-sized mobster. After identifying as a supporter of the Democratic Party for decades, Schneider hopped aboard the Trump Train during the president’s first term, but fully embraced the status of MAGA gun for hire in the last few years. He’s the pitchman for MAGA booze pander brand Tears of the Left Bourbon, whose Facebook page is filled with nothing but angry consumer complaints about broken and missing bottles. Selling his image to charlatans presumably helps to make up for some of the missing acting income, as Schneider, in the last decade, has almost exclusively appeared in film cameos whenever Sandler gets around to ringing him up. He even put in a December appearance at Turning Point USA’s “AmericaFest” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, where he praised MAGA women as the country’s most attractive women, sounding not at all in retrospect like a man who had apparently been served divorce papers a few days earlier.

You can dismiss the likes of Schneider as just another failed actor who would rather lose his family than relinquish the only customer base that will still pay him to show up to an event, but there’s something genuinely sad about this type of total commitment to a late-career (he’s 62) hyperfixation on hate and bigotry, a willingness to sell out to the very worst segment of American society just to hold on to some residual scraps of fame.

At a recent stand-up comedy appearance, Schneider’s embrace of MAGA bigotry was reportedly on full display, with jokes about calling ICE on restaurant workers, the WNBA, Rosie O’Donnell, and perennially hilarious topics like removing women’s right to vote. He assured the women in the crowd that they wouldn’t lose all of their say: “Not the small things, you can have the school board … and you can still have Dancing with the Stars.”

Perhaps the next Mrs. Schneider will pay a bit more attention to his stand-up material and the words of his eldest daughter.