Personal Life
Sheldon was married for 30 years to Jorja Curtright, a stage and film actress who later became an interior designer. She appeared in a Season One episode of I Dream of Jeannie. She died of a heart attack in 1985.
He married Alexandra Kostoff, a former child actress and an advertising executive of Macedonian origin, Ohrid, in Las Vegas in 1989. His daughter, Mary Sheldon, became a novelist as well.
He struggled with bipolar disorder for years; he contemplated suicide at 17 (talked out of it by his father, who discovered him), as detailed in his autobiography published in 2005, The Other Side of Me.
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