Mark Fluent’s wife is Justine Bateman, the actress best known as Mallory Keaton on the 1980s sitcom Family Ties. They married in 2001 and have two children, Duke and Gianetta. Wikipedia lists the marriage with no end date, and a May 2024 People profile describes the couple as still together after more than 20 years.
That much is settled. The details around it are messier. Fluent changed employers in late 2024. Some sites flip the order of the children, and a few add a third child who doesn’t exist. Here is what holds up.
Justine Bateman, Mark Fluent’s wife since 2001
Bateman’s birthday is February 19, 1966, and her younger brother is actor Jason Bateman, which makes Jason Fluent’s brother-in-law. Wikipedia dates her acting career to 1982 and lists a degree from UCLA. She now works as a writer and director, and People notes she has also become a vocal advocate for aging naturally.
She has a policy side too. In 2008 she testified before the US Senate Commerce Committee in support of net neutrality, according to her Wikipedia entry. Not a detail you’d expect from the star of a family sitcom, but there it is.
Before Fluent, People says, she dated Billy Idol and Leif Garrett. Her marriage to a financier in 2001 surprised people at the time, in People’s telling, and it has outlasted every one of those relationships.
What Mark Fluent does for a living (and why older pages get it wrong)
Fluent grew up in Los Angeles and studied at the University of Southern California. People places his birth in the early 1960s, but no reliable source gives an exact date. Celebrity wiki sites love to print an age and a net worth to the dollar, which is a bold move for a man who doesn’t run a public company. None of those figures trace back to anything I could find.
His career is easier to document. Per People, he worked at Lehman Brothers and Related Capital, then set up the West Coast group at Deutsche Bank in 2010. He rose to managing director and head of Western US real estate there, covering offices on the West Coast and in Dallas.
Then he moved. On October 21, 2024, CBRE announced that Fluent had joined as a vice chair in debt and structured finance, alongside Bill Moyer, who also came from Deutsche Bank, and David Milestone, who came from Newmark. CoStar reported that the three have closed financings worth more than $150 billion between them, all three based in Los Angeles.
The People profile came out five months before that announcement. So any page that still calls him a Deutsche Bank managing director is working from an old snapshot, usually a copy of People.
Older reference entries, including Encyclopedia.com, call him a real estate developer. People and CBRE describe something different: a financier who arranges lending on commercial property.
One more detail from People. Fluent lived in New York in the 1990s, which is where his interest in contemporary art started, and he and Bateman still collect.
When they married, and the story nobody has
Encyclopedia.com and Turner Classic Movies both give January 2001. A few websites print July 25, 2001 instead, but I found no primary source for that date.
How they met is a blank. No interview or reliable profile I could find tells the story, so someone made up any meet-cute you read online to fill space.
Their children
People says their son Duke arrived in 2002 and their daughter Gianetta in 2004. Both are adults now. Some sites reverse the order, and at least one claims three children, but Wikipedia says two. Photographers caught the family together at a Los Angeles screening of Somebody Feed Phil in January 2018.
Quick answers
Are Justine Bateman and Mark Fluent still married? Wikipedia shows no end to the marriage, and People called it ongoing in May 2024. I found no credible report of a separation.
Is Mark Fluent related to Jason Bateman? Only through marriage. Jason is his brother-in-law.
If you’re citing Fluent’s job in anything you publish, take it from CBRE’s press release, not from a profile of his wife. For the marriage itself, People and Wikipedia agree, and that’s enough.
Sources
- Who Is Justine Bateman’s Husband? All About Mark Fluent, People (via Yahoo), May 29, 2024
- CBRE Expands U.S. Debt and Structured Finance Capabilities with Key Senior Hires, CBRE, October 21, 2024
- CBRE bolsters debt finance team, CoStar
- Justine Bateman, Wikipedia
- Bateman, Justine 1966, Encyclopedia.com
- Justine Bateman, Turner Classic Movies database
