Family
Apostol was married to Melita Scherf (d. 1991), a Romanian journalist, in 1944, but separated in 1956 and subsequently divorced. He lived with his wife Adriana Codreanu (m. 1965) until his death in 2010. He had three children – Geta (b. 1935), Gheorghe (b. 1945), and Sanda (b. 1952) – and four grandchildren.
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