Personal Life
Solange Tutunji married Bachir Gemayel in 1977. Their first daughter, Maya, was born the following year. She was killed in 1980, by a car bomb intended for her father. A second daughter, Youmna, was born in 1980, and a son, Nadim, in 1982, only months before his father's assassination. Solange Gemayel raised her two surviving children to carry on their late father's legacy. Nadim indicated his intention to follow in the footsteps of his father and mother by participating in the political process.
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