Personal Life
Kaufman never married. He was survived by his father and daughter, Maria Colonna, who was born in 1969 out of wedlock with a high-school girlfriend of Kaufman's, but later placed for adoption. Colonna learned in 1992 that she was the daughter of Andy Kaufman when she traced her biological roots.
On December 5, 1969, while in college, Kaufman learned Transcendental Meditation. According to a BBC article, Kaufman used Transcendental Meditation to build confidence and take his act to comedy clubs. For the rest of his life Kaufman meditated and performed yoga three hours a day. He trained as a teacher of Transcendental Meditation in Majorca, Spain from February to June, 1971.
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