Personal Life
While at French Elle he met his first wife Pascha, with whom he has one child. In 1985 he met his second wife, Australian model Elle Macpherson; they divorced in 1989.
Kelly Killoren was Bensimon's third wife. They have two daughters: Sea Louise Bensimon (born 1998) and Thaddeus Ann "Teddy" Bensimon (born 2000). The couple divorced in July 2007, two years before Kelly went on to appear in three seasons of The Real Housewives of New York City.
Since his third divorce, Bensimon has been linked to several fashion models and recently art historian Diana Widmaier-Picasso, granddaughter of Pablo Picasso.
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