Personal Life
Simonyi is married to Lisa Persdotter, the daughter of a Swedish millionaire. She is 32 years his junior. They were engaged on 8 August 2008 and were married on 22 November 2008 in a private ceremony in Gothenburg, Sweden, attended by their closest friends, among them Bill Gates. Their first child, a daughter named Lilian Simonyi, was born in February 2011. The second child, Livia Suzanne Simonyi was born in November 2012.
Simonyi dated Martha Stewart for 15 years until 2008.
Simonyi spends six months per year on his custom-built 233-foot (71 m) long super yacht named Skat.
Simonyi's residence in Medina, Washington, "Villa Simonyi", is a modern house designed by architect Wendell Lovett, where Simonyi displays his collection of paintings by Roy Lichtenstein and Victor Vasarely.
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