She helped him write material, pitch show ideas, and run his merchandise.
Early Life: Paige Dunham was born in Savannah, Georgia on March 13, 1968. She was raised on Amelia Island, Florida. Her family ran a dance school and she grew up dancing at the studio. Her family moved to West Palm Beach, Florida when she was a teenager and she finished her last two years of high school there. Paige majored in business at Clemson University in South Carolina.
Career: When Paige married Jeff in 1994, she immediately got involved in his career. That same year she started the database for Jeff's online fan club. That database became integral in his win for Best Male Stand Up Comic at the 1997 American Comedy Awards. She also put together newsletters, managed and created Jeff Dunham merchandise, and started an online store for his merchandise. Paige launched Brasma Publications in 1999, where she hired an illustrator and published Dunham's book "Dear Walter…" in 2003.
In 2006 Paige started the Jeff and Paige Dunham Foundation. The purpose of the foundation was to take a portion of the proceeds of Jeff's stand up shows across the U.S. and use the money to benefit people in need. $1.00 from every ticket sale and 100% of the sales from eBay went to the foundation. Paige sold meet and greets for fans at Jeff's nationwide shows as well as memorabilia on eBay. The year the organization was established, the Dunhams presented a check for $35,000 for Hurricane Katrina Relief to the Ronald McDonald House of Houston. After the divorce, Paige rebranded the foundation as The Paige Dunham Foundation and continues to run it.
Paige executive produced the films "The Face of Love in 2013" and "Last Days in the Desert" in 2015.
Personal Life: Paige moved back to West Palm Beach after college. Her first daughter, Bree Aleece, was born in 1991. In 1992 she met comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham. They were engaged three months after they met. They married in 1994. In 1995, the couple's daughter Ashlyn Evelyn was born. In 1997, Makenna Paige was born. Jeff Dunham filed for divorce in 2008 and the divorce was finalized in 2012.
Since the divorce, she has become an advocate for divorced women and helping women navigate through breakups and divorce. She also donates her time to various children's charities.
She is a runner and ran the San Francisco half marathon, where she raised $6,000 for the National Institute for Mental Health.
Legal Issues: In 2015, Jeff Dunham's second wife Audrey Dunham sued Paige Dunham for registering the websites AudreyDunham.com, AudreyDunham.net, AudreyDunham.us, and AudreyDunham.biz. Reportedly, Audrey asked Paige to transfer the websites, and the response was a demand for tens of thousands of dollars for each domain name. Audrey filed a lawsuit seeking damages up to $100,000 per domain name, plus a claim of unfair competition.
