Did James Lipton have any children?

Kedakai Turner was James Lipton’s second wife. Previously, he was married to actress Nina Foch from 1954 until 1959 (via People). 

Lipton told Parade in 2013 that marrying Turner was his greatest achievement, “no question about it.” They met at the ballet, he explained. “I took one look at her and I fell madly in love. I called her the next day and asked her to have dinner with me. Nine months later we were married.” At the time of his death, they had been together for nearly 50 years.

Lipton and Turner did not have any children together, and he never spoke publicly about that aspect of his life. However, he did speak about his troubled relationship with his own father, beat poet Lawrence Lipton. “My parents broke up when I was 6,” Lipton told The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2002. “I saw him when I was 12 and again when I was 20.” An only child, Lipton grew up poor in Detroit, and he told Parade that he had to start working at the age of 13.

Written by: Nicki