Robert Holley (television personality)

Holley is a descendant of William Bradford, one of the signatories of the Mayflower Compact.^[6] He is married to a South Korean woman, with whom he has three sons; the eldest was born in 1988.^[2][7] He decided to naturalize as a South Korean citizen in 1997, which required him to give up his U.S. citizenship. He has described this as a difficult decision, especially since at the time South Korea was not a member of the U.S. Visa Waiver Program; a U.S. consular official tried to discourage him from giving up citizenship, warning that he might not be able to get a visa to return to his country of birth, but Holley nevertheless decided to go through with it.^[1] A notice confirming his loss of U.S. citizenship was published in the Federal Register in February 1998.^[8] He is a close friend of Lee Joon-gi, who rose to fame in the mid-2000s as a film actor.^[9]

On April 10, 2019, Holley was arrested by the Cyber Investigation Division of the Gyeonggi-do Southern Region Police Department on the charge of using methamphetamines pursuant to the Narcotics Control Act.^[10] He was released the same day after a court ruled that he had a low chance of destroying evidence.^[11] His case was referred to the prosecution on May 1, 2019.^[12] On August 29, 2019, at the Seoul Western District Court, Holley was given a one-year prison sentence suspended for two years and 40 hours of drug treatment.^[13] The sentence took into consideration the fact that Holley had expressed regret for using methamphetamines.^[13]

• Robert Holley on X
• Robert Holley on Cyworld (in Korean)