Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford (née Rovell; born February 6, 1947) is an American singer best known as the first wife of Beach Boy Brian Wilson, and as the mother of singers Carnie Wilson and Wendy Wilson of Wilson Phillips. In the 1960s, she founded the Honeys, and after their dissolution in 1969, she founded American Spring with her sister Diane Rovell.\n', '

Rovell and Wilson met when she attended a Beach Boys concert at Pandora\'s Box, a Sunset Strip nightclub, in October 1962 with her sister Diane and their cousin Ginger Blake, who was dating Brian\'s then collaborator Gary Usher. Wilson and Rovell began dating when Wilson was 20 years old and Rovell was 15 years old. \n', '

Wilson became the producer of the Honeys, a girl group consisting of Marilyn, Diane and Ginger. Wilson and Marilyn married on December 7, 1964 as the Honeys\' career was declining. The couple had two daughters, Carnie and Wendy.\n', '

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