Personal Life
Lenya and Weill did not meet properly until 1924 through a mutual acquaintance, the writer Georg Kaiser. They married in 1926, and later divorced in 1933, only to reconcile in September 1935 after emigrating to the United States. They remarried in 1937. In 1941, the couple moved to a house of their own in New City, Rockland County, New York, roughly 50 km north of New York City. Their second marriage lasted until Weill's death in 1950.
Her second husband was the American editor George Davis (1951–57). After Davis's death in 1957, she married the artist Russell Detwiler in 1962. He was 26 years her junior, but died at the age of 44 in 1969.
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