Stephanie Rose Bongiovi
Jon and Dorothea’s eldest child, Stephanie, came along on May 31, 1993. Although she has yet to pursue a Hollywood career like her father, she does take after Jon’s singing ability.
In 2017, the Slippery When Wet actor and his daughter performed “I’ve Got The Girl” — which is the song he wrote for Stephanie — during a concert. While he usually played old home videos of Stephanie singing the song in the background on a massive monitor, she joined her dad on stage instead.
Years earlier in 2012, Stephanie was arrested on drug charges after a suspected overdose while she was attending Hamilton College. At the time, she was transported to the hospital after campus police found her unconscious with a small amount of heroin in her possession.
The “It’s My Life” singer once opened up about the “horrible” experience while chatting with The Mirror. “It was my worst moment as a father,” he candidly shared of the moment when he received a phone call from his daughter at the hospital at 2 a.m.
“The first thing she said [is] ‘I’m alright,'” he recalled. “But then she said, ‘This is what happened.’ … [As a parent,] you wake up, you shake it off and put your shoes on and say, ‘OK, I am on the way home.'”
Stephanie’s charges were later dropped due to a local law in Kirkland, New York, where the liberal arts college is located, that prohibits prosecution of those who have experienced a drug overdose. Nowadays, Stephanie is a model, per Glamour Path.
While Stephanie is private about her personal life, her dad confirmed that she is engaged to be married as of 2024. Jon revealed in an April 2024 interview that he wrote a song called “Kiss the Bride” to play for Steph on her wedding day.
