Personal Life
Demme was born in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York in 1944, and graduated from the University of Florida.
He is currently a member of the steering committee of the Friends of the Apollo Theater in Oberlin, Ohio, along with Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. Demme has three children by two marriages: Ramona, Brooklyn and Josephine. He also was the uncle of film director Ted Demme, who died in 2002.
During the 1980s, Demme had a brief romantic relationship with rock singer Belinda Carlisle, who appeared in his movie Swing Shift.
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