Personal Life
Gemayel married Joyce Tyan in December 1967. They had a daughter (Nicole) and two sons, Pierre and Sami. Pierre Gemayel was elected to Parliament in 2000, and established his reputation as a moderate opposition politician before being appointed to the Cabinet in 2005. He was assassinated by unidentified assailants in Jdeideh, a Beirut suburb, on 21 November 2006. Amine Gemayel angrily blamed Syria for the murder of his son.
Gemayel is fluent in English and French, and is regarded as a scholar of Classical Arabic.
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