Quick Bio

Detail	Info
Full Name	Tulip Victoria Khaury
Born	May 10, 1971, United States
Age (2025)	54 years old
Ethnicity	Caucasian – Lebanese, Polish-Jewish, Belarusian Jewish heritage
Nationality	American
Father	Herbert Butros Khaury – stage name: Tiny Tim (April 12, 1932 – November 30, 1996)
Mother	Victoria Mae Budinger – publicly known as “Miss Vicki” (b. April 20, 1952)
Parents Married	December 17, 1969, on live television – The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Parents Separated	1974 (formally); Divorce finalized 1977
Sibling	Unnamed infant brother – born and died May 15, 1970
First Husband	William Ervin Stewart (married; divorced)
Second Husband	Edward Alfredo (married privately)
Children	Cherice Stewart, Jade Stewart (1993–2020), Zharia Stewart, Trey Stewart
Grandchildren	Nora, Vera, and Hezekiah Williams (Jade’s children)
Current Residence	New Castle, Pennsylvania
Career	Member Services Associate, Avalon Holding Corporation (waste management)
TV Appearances	The Mike Douglas Show (1973, as Tiny Tim’s Daughter); Tiny Tim: King for a Day (2020 documentary)
Instagram	@tulip_khaury_offical
Estimated Net Worth	$100,000–$500,000 (estimated)

Her Parents’ Wedding Was Watched by 40 Million People. She Never Wanted a Single Camera Pointed at Her Face.

Let that contrast land for a second.

Forty million Americans tuned in to watch Tulip Victoria Khaury’s parents get married on live television. The set had ten thousand tulips imported from Holland. The guest of honour was Johnny Carson. The ceremony ran six minutes. It was the highest-rated talk show episode in American broadcast history at that point.

Tulip was born into that world. She grew up in the wreckage of it. And then she moved to New Castle, Pennsylvania, got a job in waste management customer service, and has been quietly refusing to be famous ever since.

You want to talk about character? That right there is character.

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The Name She Didn’t Choose But Carries Anyway

Here’s a detail most articles mention and then immediately move past: Tiny Tim named his daughter Tulip. Victoria Budinger — Miss Vicki, the mother — reportedly disliked the name. But Herbert Butros Khaury, the strange falsetto-voiced man with the ukulele and the frizzy hair, had the final say and he exercised it.

Tulip. After the song. After Tiptoe Through the Tulips. Because of course he did.

What’s genuinely interesting is that Tiny Tim wasn’t even at the hospital when she was born. He showed up the following day. Read that again — the man who named his only daughter after his most famous song wasn’t present for the actual birth. He arrived the next morning, saw the baby, and departed again into the touring schedule that defined his existence.

That absence on day one wasn’t accidental. It was a preview.

The Wedding That Created Her and the Marriage That Destroyed Her Childhood

December 17, 1969. NBC. The Tonight Show. Tiny Tim — 37 years old, weird, beloved, nationally famous — married 17-year-old Victoria Budinger on live television. Johnny Carson officiated the mood if not the ceremony itself. The couple wore Victorian-style clothes made by designer Jeffrey Martin. Ten thousand Dutch tulips surrounded the set. An estimated 30 to 45 million viewers watched, depending on which source you trust.

Miss Vicki had wanted a private ceremony at her parents’ home in New Jersey. Tiny Tim insisted on the television spectacle. That fundamental disagreement — her preference for privacy versus his need for an audience — was already embedded in the marriage before the vows were even spoken.

The family lost a baby boy a few months prior to Tulip’s birth.He arrived on May 15, 1970, and died the same day. Tiny Tim paid $250 for a casket and arranged a burial. The headstone read “IT — Infant son of Herbert and Vicki Khaury.” An unnamed child. A grief that nobody in the coverage ever dwells on, but which sat inside this family during the pregnancy that produced Tulip.

Then Tulip arrived. Eleven months after that loss. May 10, 1971.

What “Growing Up Famous” Actually Looked Like for Tulip

Spoiler: it didn’t look like what you’re imagining.

Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki essentially lived in separate houses for much of their marriage. He toured constantly. He was, by multiple accounts, absent from Tulip’s daily life in any meaningful way. In 1995, Miss Vicki informed a reporter for the Chicago Tribune that she had been essentially alone since Tulip was a baby.Three jobs. Just her and the baby, grinding it out while her famous husband was somewhere on the road performing to dwindling audiences as the 1970s eroded his 1960s celebrity.

The separation began formally in 1974. The divorce was finalized in 1977. Tulip was three years old when her parents split. Six by the time the paperwork was complete. What she experienced wasn’t the glamour of a rock star’s home — it was welfare checks in the 1970s because her mother’s three jobs still weren’t enough. It was watching her mother work herself into the ground while her famous father’s name appeared in newspapers but not on any of their household bills.

In a book titled Tiptoe Through a Lifetime, Tulip said it plainly: “I don’t really have many memories because my mother and he split when I was two, so I really didn’t spend that much time with him.” That’s not bitterness in that sentence. That’s just a fact, delivered without decorative emotion.

The Mike Douglas Show: The First and Almost Last Time She Was on Camera

Tulip was two years old. She appeared on The Mike Douglas Show alongside her father. Listed on IMDB simply as “Tiny Tim’s Daughter.” That credit — that label — is the earliest documentation of her public identity.

She didn’t ask for it. She was two.

What’s striking about how that moment functions in her story is the contrast with what came next: nearly fifty years of deliberate non-appearance. One television credit at age two, then nothing until she was 49 and appeared in a documentary about her dead father. Two screen appearances across an entire lifetime. Both of them in service of someone else’s story — first as his prop, then as his eulogist.

Tiny Tim’s Final Decade: The Reconciliation Nobody Talks About Enough

By the time Tulip was an adult, her father’s career had been cycling through obscurity and minor revivals for years. The 1960s phenomenon was long gone. Tiny Tim kept performing — weddings, small venues, state fairs, benefits — because he simply couldn’t stop. Music wasn’t his job. It was his biology.

What the coverage skips over is that Tulip and her father eventually rebuilt something. They reconciled. They maintained a relationship in his final years — actual contact, actual presence, the kind of father-daughter dynamic that looked nothing like the void of her childhood but was something. Whatever their connection became as adults, it was real enough that she stood at the edge of it when it ended.

November 30, 1996. Minneapolis. A benefit gala hosted by the Woman’s Club. Tiny Tim was 64 years old and reportedly unwell before taking the stage. He performed anyway. In the middle of his closing number — Tiptoe Through the Tulips, what else — he suffered a heart attack. His third wife Susan, known as Miss Sue, was there. She asked if he was all right. He said no. He was helped to their table. He collapsed and never regained consciousness.

Pronounced dead at 11:20 pm. Buried at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis.

Tulip inherited part of his estate. Including his ukulele.

The man who named her after his song and wasn’t at the hospital when she was born left her the instrument that made him famous. There’s a whole grief inside that object that no article has adequately handled.

New Castle, Pennsylvania: The Life She Actually Built

After her father’s death, Tulip Khaury — using the surname Stewart from her first marriage — built a life that is aggressively ordinary by celebrity-daughter standards.

She married William Ervin Stewart. They had four children together. Cherice was first, born when Tulip was just 16 years old. Then Jade, approximately five years later. Then Zharia. Then Trey. Four children, a working-class life in Pennsylvania, and a complete absence from any entertainment industry or public profile.

She and William eventually divorced. She later married a man named Edward Alfredo. The details of that relationship are not publicly documented beyond its existence — which is exactly how Tulip has managed every aspect of her personal life.

She works — or has worked — as a member services associate at Avalon Holding Corporation, a company providing waste management services to government, municipal, and commercial clients. It’s a real job. A normal job. Not a “step down” from anything — just what building your own life actually looks like when you refuse to monetize your last name.

Jade Stewart: The Loss That Changed Everything and Nobody Covered

This is the hardest part of Tulip’s story. And it’s handled with embarrassing brevity in virtually every article about her.

Jade Stewart — Tulip’s second daughter, born 1993 — died on November 30, 2020. She was 27 years old. The family never disclosed the cause of death. She left behind three children: Nora, Vera, and Hezekiah Williams.

November 30. On the same date her grandfather Tiny Tim died in 1996.

Let that coincidence sit. The date of loss repeated across two generations. Tulip lost her father on November 30th and lost her daughter on November 30th. Twenty-four years apart. The same calendar square carrying two of the most devastating events in one family’s history.

This woman has absorbed losses that would break most people and she has done it without public breakdown, without a memoir deal, without a grief-processing Instagram account. She just kept going. To New Castle. To work. To her remaining children and her grandchildren.

The One Time She Spoke, a 2020 documentary

The 2020 Fantasia Film Festival hosted the debut of Tiny Tim: King for a Day. A documentary about her father’s life, music, and eccentric genius. Tulip appeared in it — credited as Tulip Stewart — and talked about what it was like to be his daughter. What he was like behind the theatrical persona. The parts of him that weren’t on stage.

It’s the one documented instance of Tulip speaking publicly about her family in any format. One documentary appearance. At 49 years old. Nearly a quarter century after his death.

She also inherited his ukulele, which she has kept. There’s a level of tenderness in maintaining that object — choosing to hold onto the specific thing that represented him most — that doesn’t square easily with the “absent father, difficult childhood” narrative most sources reach for.

People are complicated. So are their grief objects.

Miss Vicki Today: The Other Woman This Story Belongs To

Without giving Miss Vicki her credit, Tulip’s story is impossible to comprehend. Victoria Mae Budinger — who was 17 when she married, 19 when Tulip was born, and largely alone with an infant while her famous husband toured — is the person who actually kept Tulip alive and functional through the 1970s.

Three jobs. Welfare support when the jobs weren’t enough. The raising of a child during a slow, grinding single parenthood that had zero glamour and maximum difficulty. Miss Vicki later ran a new-age boutique in Maple Shade, New Jersey, selling crystals, candles, incense, and books. She reportedly still lives in New Jersey and declines press interviews consistently.

Like a mother, like a daughter. The privacy didn’t come from nowhere.

The Instagram Account and the Carefully Maintained Boundary

Tulip has an Instagram account: @tulip_khaury_offical. Her bio identifies her as Tiny Tim’s daughter and Miss Vicki’s daughter. She shares family content. She doesn’t perform for follower growth or brand partnerships. She doesn’t use her father’s legacy as content marketing.

It exists as a portal with one-way glass. She can see you. You can barely see her. That’s the arrangement she’s chosen and she’s been consistent about it.

For someone who has every conceivable reason to exploit her origin story — famous eccentric father, nationally televised wedding, dramatic divorce, inherited ukulele, grief-stacked life story — she has chosen to share almost nothing commercially. There’s real money in celebrity-kid memoirs. She hasn’t written one.

Final Thoughts

Here’s the thing about Tulip Victoria Khaury that the “she chose privacy” narrative misses.

Privacy isn’t passive. It takes active, repeated maintenance. Every time a documentary comes out about her father — and they keep coming, because Tiny Tim remains a genuinely fascinating figure in American music history — someone finds her. Every time the Tonight Show wedding gets referenced in a pop culture piece, her name resurfaces. She has been “found” by the internet repeatedly for two decades and each time she closes the door again and goes back to Pennsylvania.

She became a grandmother. Jade’s three kids — Nora, Vera, and Hezekiah — are her grandchildren now, and she presumably has some role in their lives after their mother’s death. She works. She lives in New Castle.

Her father’s name is synonymous with a specific moment in American television history. The wedding that broke viewership records. The ukulele that sounds like nothing else. The falsetto that shouldn’t have worked and absolutely did.

Tulip’s name is literally in the title of the song. Tiptoe Through the Tulips. She carries his most famous word in her first name, walks around with it daily, and has never once tried to turn that connection into a career.

You want to know what actual self-definition looks like for a celebrity’s child? This is it. Unglamorous. Grief-marked. Quietly stubborn. New Castle, Pennsylvania.

The tulip that didn’t tiptoe for anyone.

FAQs

Q1. Who is Tulip Victoria Khaury? 

She is the only surviving child of Herbert Butros Khaury — the eccentric American musician known as Tiny Tim — and his first wife Victoria Budinger, publicly known as Miss Vicki. Born May 10, 1971, she is named after her father’s most famous song and has spent her adult life deliberately outside of public attention, living in New Castle, Pennsylvania, and working in customer service.

Q2. Where did Tiny Tim’s famous name “Tulip” come from? 

Tiny Tim named her after his signature hit Tiptoe Through the Tulips, which brought him national fame after his 1968 performance on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. Her mother Victoria reportedly disliked the name but had no say in the final decision. Her middle name Victoria honors her mother.

Q3. Was Tiny Tim actually present when Tulip was born? 

No. According to multiple sources including Wikipedia’s documented account, Tiny Tim was absent from the hospital during the birth itself on May 10, 1971. He arrived the following day to see his wife and newborn daughter.

Q4. What happened to Tulip’s parents’ marriage? 

Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki married on live television on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on December 17, 1969, watched by an estimated 30–45 million viewers. Their marriage functionally collapsed within about two years — they lived mostly in separate houses, with Tiny Tim touring constantly. They formally separated in 1974 and the divorce was finalized in 1977. Tulip was approximately three years old at the time of separation.

Q5. Did Tulip have any siblings? 

Technically yes, though tragically. Before Tulip was born, Miss Vicki gave birth to a baby boy on May 15, 1970, who died the same day. Tiny Tim arranged and paid for the burial. The headstone was inscribed “IT — Infant son of Herbert and Vicki Khaury.” Tulip is Tiny Tim’s only surviving child from all three of his marriages.

Q6. How many children does Tulip Victoria Khaury have? 

Four children with her first husband William Ervin Stewart: Cherice (her eldest, born when Tulip was 16), Jade (1993–2020), Zharia, and Trey. Her daughter Jade died on November 30, 2020, at age 27, leaving behind three children — Nora, Vera, and Hezekiah Williams. Tulip later married a second husband named Edward Alfredo.

Q7. What happened to Jade Stewart? 

Jade Stewart, Tulip’s second daughter, died on November 30, 2020, in New Castle, Pennsylvania, at age 27. The cause of death was not disclosed publicly by the family. She left behind three young children. Notably, November 30 is also the date Tiny Tim died in 1996 — the same calendar date claiming both Tulip’s father and her daughter, twenty-four years apart.

Q8. Did Tulip ever appear on television? 

Twice, across her entire life. She appeared on The Mike Douglas Show in 1973 at approximately two years old, credited simply as “Tiny Tim’s Daughter.” She appeared again in 2020 in the documentary Tiny Tim: King for a Day, credited as Tulip Stewart, where she spoke about her father’s personality and what his life looked like outside of his public persona. Both appearances were connected to her father’s story, not her own.

Q9. What does Tulip Victoria Khaury do for work? 

She works as a member services associate at Avalon Holding Corporation, a waste management company serving government, municipal, industrial, and commercial clients in the Pennsylvania area.She has also held customer service positions in the past. She took time away from work to focus on being a full-time mother and later returned to professional employment.

Q10. What did Tulip inherit after Tiny Tim’s death? 

She inherited a portion of his estate, though the exact financial details were never made public. Notably, she inherited his ukulele — the instrument most associated with his identity and career. She also inherited his legacy, participating in efforts to preserve his memory through the 2020 documentary and through her general availability to archivists and fans who reach out.

Q11. What was Tiny Tim’s relationship with Tulip like as she got older? 

Their early relationship was essentially absent — he didn’t visit regularly, and Miss Vicki raised Tulip alone with welfare assistance and multiple jobs. As Tulip entered adulthood, she and her father reconciled and maintained a real relationship through his final years before his death in 1996. She has described the limited early memories of him without expressing bitterness, and her involvement in the 2020 documentary suggests genuine love for and pride in his artistic legacy.

Q12. Is Tulip Victoria Khaury on social media? 

She has an Instagram account under the handle @tulip_khaury_offical where her bio describes her as the daughter of Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki. She posts family content but maintains strict boundaries around personal details. She does not appear to be active on other major platforms and has never given any formal press interviews about her life or her father’s legacy beyond the 2020 documentary.

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