Robert Blake to marry a third time 12 years after murder acquittal

Robert Blake is reportedly set to marry for a third time. (Reuters)

Robert Blake reportedly will marry for the third time, some 12 years after he was acquitted of murdering his second wife.

TMZ identified the bride to be as 55-year-old Pamela Hudak, an old flame of her 83-year-old ­fiancé.

The two have known each other for decades and in the past had dated, the Web site said.

Blake who starred in the 1970s TV detective show “Baretta,” and his second wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, had just finished dining in a California restaurant in May 2001, when she was shot dead in his car. The jury bought his story that he returned to the restaurant to retrieve his gun — and when he returned to the car, she was dead.

Prosecutors accused him of hiring a hit man for $10,000.

Blacke and Hudak applied for a marriage license in Beverly Hills on Thursday, TMZ said.

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