Personal Life
Mann has been married four times and has seven children. He divorced his first wife Beverly, with whom he had three sons, in 1957. Mann had three more children with his second wife who he divorced in 1973. He divorced his third wife, Susan, in 1997.
He is currently married to Claude Mann and recently adopted her adult daughter. Although not of Jewish heritage like her husband, Claude was born in a concentration camp during World War II. Her father was active in the French Resistance and had been sent to a concentration camp for hiding Jews from Nazi soldiers.
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