A bold, no-sugarcoat deep dive into the woman the internet keeps Googling — and the woman who clearly doesn’t care.

Quick Bio 

Detail	Info
Real Name	Susan Hewitt
Known As	Suzanne Chase
Born	1949, USA
Age (2026)	Around 76–77 years old
Nationality	American
Famous For	First wife of comedian Chevy Chase
Marriage Date	February 23, 1973
Divorce Date	February 1, 1976
Children	None
Acting Credits	Shake Well Before Using, A Trip Down Mammary Lane, Amateur Lesbians 8
Current Status	Unknown — completely out of public life
Net Worth	No confirmed data

She Doesn’t Know You’re Googling Her — And She Probably Doesn’t Care

Here’s the thing nobody wants to say out loud. Suzanne Chase is famous for exactly one reason. She married someone who became famous. That’s it. That’s the whole story, if you’re being honest.

But here we are. Searching her name. Reading articles. Trying to figure out where this woman went.

And weirdly? That’s what makes her interesting.

She didn’t write a memoir. Didn’t do a tell-all interview on some late-night couch. Didn’t create an Instagram account with throwback photos from 1973. In a world where everyone is fighting tooth and nail just to stay in the spotlight, she simply stepped back. And vanished.

Let’s talk about who she actually is.

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Before the Name “Chase” — Who Was Susan Hewitt?

Born in 1949, somewhere in the United States. That’s basically all we know for certain.

No hometown. No school. No record of her parents or siblings. Not a single childhood photo floating around on the internet. Born Susan Hewitt — and she kept that name quiet too, mostly. The world knows her by the name she took from a marriage, which is frankly its own kind of irony.

Think about that. The only identity the public has for her is borrowed from a man she was married to for less than three years.

She never corrected that. Never stepped forward to say, “Actually, let me tell you who I am.” The silence was total. Deliberate. Almost surgical.

You’ve got to either respect that or find it deeply unsettling. Maybe both.

How They Met — A Concert, A Band Called Chameleon Church, and Two Very Young People

Chevy Chase — before the pratfalls, before Weekend Update, before Clark Griswold — was playing drums in a band. The group was called Chameleon Church. They were performing at Wesleyan University.

Susan Hewitt, 19 years old at the time, was in the crowd. Chevy was 25.

That detail comes straight from Chevy’s authorized biography, I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not by Rena Fruchter (2007). It’s basically the only primary source that describes their early relationship in any detail. And keep this in mind — everything we know about their relationship comes from his side of the story. Not hers.

She was reportedly supportive. Believed in him. According to Chevy, she thought he might actually make it — even when he was pulling in just $25 a week working at Channel One.

Twenty-five dollars a week. The man she married was earning barely enough for a taxi ride. And she apparently believed in him anyway. That part of the story gets buried under the affair narrative, but it deserves a sentence or two.

The Marriage — New York, 1973, Before Everything Changed

They walked down the aisle on February 23, 1973, in New York City. Small ceremony. Close friends and family only. No big Hollywood fanfare — because there was no Hollywood yet. Chevy was still a nobody at that point.

But here’s where the story gets complicated.

According to the biography, Susan became pregnant before the wedding. She agreed to terminate the pregnancy on the condition that Chevy would marry her. That’s the account as told by Chevy Chase himself.

Heavy stuff to drop in a biography decades later. And Suzanne Chase never once confirmed or denied it. Not a word.

She also reportedly came close to losing Chevy before the marriage even started. A few months into their relationship, Chevy ran into Blythe Danner — reportedly a former flame — and briefly considered rekindling things with her. He went to tell Susan it was over. Found out she was pregnant. And that changed everything.

Again — all of this is Chevy’s account. Suzanne’s version of these events doesn’t exist publicly. And that matters. A lot.

Three Years. Then Gone.

The marriage lasted from 1973 to 1976. Three years. No children.

And then — from Chevy’s own words in his biography — Susan left. He came home one night after attending a rock concert. The apartment was a mess. An ashtray had cigarettes in it that weren’t her brand. A couple of long ashes. The apartment door had cockroaches opening it, so to speak. Beds unmade.

He put the pieces together. She had been seeing someone else. A worker from Max’s Kansas City, a well-known music venue in New York at the time.

“She had an affair and simply left,” Chevy told biographer Rena Fruchter. “That was the end of that.”

Short. Blunt. Final.

The divorce was made official on February 1, 1976. And here’s where things get layered — 1976 was also the year Chevy left Saturday Night Live, the show that made him a household name. He later admitted in interviews that the divorce sent him spiraling. He turned to alcohol and drugs to cope. A man at the peak of his career, self-destructing privately.

Meanwhile, Suzanne Chase? She simply disappeared from the record.

One Side of the Story — And Why That’s a Problem

Let’s be real for a second. This entire narrative — the pregnancy, the abortion agreement, the concert discovery, the affair — comes from one authorized biography, written with Chevy Chase’s cooperation and blessing.

He’s the one who framed the story. She never sat down with anyone to offer a different frame.

Was she unfaithful? Possibly. People do that sometimes. Was there more going on in that marriage — pressure, unhappiness, things no biographer captured because they only talked to one person? Also very possible.

Chevy Chase has a documented history of difficult behavior. His second wife, actress Jacqueline Carlin, actually filed for divorce citing threats of violence. That’s on record. The authorized biography, reviewed by critics, has also been described as leaning heavily toward making its subject look sympathetic while placing blame externally.

None of this means Suzanne Chase is innocent of anything. None of it means Chevy Chase is lying either. It just means — you’re only hearing one side. And you should know that going in.

The Acting Career Nobody Really Talks About

Here’s something that gets glossed over. Suzanne Chase did try acting.

Her credits include Shake Well Before Using, A Trip Down Mammary Lane, and Amateur Lesbians 8. These were not prestige films. They weren’t mainstream releases. They were low-profile productions from the late 1970s and early 1980s.

She appeared in credits under the name Susan Hewitt — reverting to her birth name, or never fully taking “Chase” professionally in the first place.

The acting career never grew into anything. It stayed small. And then it stopped entirely.

Was she trying to build something of her own after the marriage fell apart? Was this her attempt at independence, at carving out an identity that wasn’t just “Chevy Chase’s ex-wife”? Hard to know. The work exists. The reasoning doesn’t.

Chevy’s World After Suzanne — Just For Context

When Suzanne stepped back, Chevy stepped into history.

Saturday Night Live. Weekend Update. “I’m Chevy Chase — and you’re not.” Then Foul Play with Goldie Hawn. Caddyshack. The Vacation films. By the late 1980s, he was reportedly earning around $7 million per film.

He married Jacqueline Carlin just months after the divorce from Suzanne — in December 1976. That marriage fell apart by 1980 amid ugly allegations. Then came Jayni Luke, whom he met on a film set in 1981. They married in 1982. Three daughters: Cydney, Caley, and Emily. Still together over 40 years later.

Chevy Chase’s life after Suzanne became a public story. Awards nominations, box office hits, drug rehab, the infamous Bill Murray fistfight backstage at SNL, a career comeback on Community, then a slow fade.

Suzanne Chase’s life after Chevy became nothing. At least nothing we can read about.

Where Is She Now? The Honest Answer Is: Nobody Knows.

Born in 1949, which puts her at 76 or 77 years old in 2026.

No confirmed address. No social media profile. No public appearances. No interviews, ever. No records of a second marriage. No records of children. No records of much of anything.

She may be living a completely ordinary, private life somewhere in the United States. She may have remarried. She may have built a career nobody attached to the name “Suzanne Chase.” She may have passed away quietly, without a public obituary that anyone connected to this story.

We genuinely don’t know.

And honestly? There’s something kind of radical about that. Everyone she was ever connected to became a public figure. She simply refused.

What Does This Story Actually Say?

Fame is a gravitational pull. Get close enough to it and it drags you in. Your name ends up in articles, your face ends up in searches, your past gets picked apart by strangers.

Suzanne Chase found herself in that orbit. She was young, in a relationship with a man who was about to explode into one of the biggest comedy careers of the 1970s and 80s.

And she left. Before the fame fully arrived. And then she kept leaving — from public life, from interviews, from the whole circus.

There’s a version of this story where she’s the cautionary tale — the woman Chevy Chase left behind. But honestly? Looking at what Chevy’s life became — the addiction, the difficult marriages, the fistfights, the career turbulence, the rehab stints — maybe she was the lucky one.

The internet keeps hunting for her. She’s not hiding from the internet. She’s just not interested in being found.

Final Thoughts

Here’s what nobody in these articles will actually say: Suzanne Chase is probably the most interesting person in this whole story, precisely because we know so little about her.

Chevy Chase is well-documented. His highs. His lows. His addictions. His difficult behavior. His jokes. His fall from grace. His comeback. All of it is there, recorded and replayed.

Suzanne stepped out at the right time. She took nothing with her except her own life.

Fame culture wants everyone to be accountable to the public. To explain themselves. To give interviews. To offer their side. She refused to play that game entirely.

Was her marriage perfect? No. Did something go wrong? Clearly. But she never owed the public her version of events. And she never gave it.

That’s not a scandal. That’s just a person living on their own terms.

In 2026, we’re still Googling her. She still doesn’t care.

Good for her.

FAQs

1. What is Suzanne Chase’s real name? 

Her birth name is Susan Hewitt. She became known as Suzanne Chase after marrying Chevy Chase in 1973. After the divorce, it’s unclear what name she uses today.

2. How did Suzanne Chase and Chevy Chase meet? 

They met at a Wesleyan University concert where Chevy was playing drums with his band, Chameleon Church. She was 19; he was 25. Chevy described the meeting in his authorized 2007 biography.

3. When did they get married? 

February 23, 1973, in New York City. It was a small ceremony with family and close friends.

4. Why did they divorce? 

According to Chevy Chase’s biography, Suzanne had an affair with an employee from Max’s Kansas City and left the marriage. Suzanne has never publicly confirmed, denied, or discussed this account.

5. Did they have children together? 

No. They had no children during their three-year marriage. A pregnancy earlier in their relationship was terminated before the wedding, according to Chevy’s biography — though Suzanne has never addressed this claim.

6. Did Suzanne Chase have an acting career? 

She appeared in a small number of low-profile film projects, including Shake Well Before Using, A Trip Down Mammary Lane, and Amateur Lesbians 8. None were mainstream releases. Her acting career was brief and she did not pursue it further.

7. How old is Suzanne Chase in 2026? 

She was born in 1949, making her approximately 76 or 77 years old. Her exact birthdate has never been made public.

8. Is Suzanne Chase still alive? 

There is no confirmed information either way. She has maintained complete privacy for decades. No public record of her death exists, but no confirmed current whereabouts do either.

9. Did Suzanne Chase ever speak publicly about Chevy Chase? 

Never. Not a single interview, statement, or public comment. In a world where almost every celebrity ex eventually shares their side, she is a genuine exception.

10. Who did Chevy Chase marry after Suzanne? 

He married actress Jacqueline Carlin later that same year, in December 1976. That marriage ended in 1980. He then married Jayni Luke in 1982. Jayni is his current and longest-lasting wife; they have three daughters together.

11. Why do people keep searching for Suzanne Chase? 

Because she’s connected to a famous comedian’s early life and has left absolutely no public footprint. Mystery creates curiosity. The less someone shares, the more people want to find.

12. Is the story of Suzanne Chase told fairly in public? 

Honestly — no. Every account relies on Chevy Chase’s authorized biography. He got to shape the narrative. She never responded. A fair telling of any relationship requires both sides, and her side simply doesn’t exist in the public record.

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