Personal Life
Adams is married to Patrice Newell. He has four daughters: three with his first wife and one with Newell.
He lives on Elmswood, a cattle property near Gundy in the Hunter Valley in mid-northern New South Wales. He has a home in Paddington, an inner suburb of Sydney. Adams is a collector of rare antiques, including Egyptian, Roman and Greek sculptures and artifacts.
He has written "I'd been an atheist since I was five."
In 1979 a portrait of Adams by artist Wes Walters won the Archibald Prize.
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