Bill Graham (promoter)

=== Family ===
Bill Graham had five sisters, Rita Rose; Evelyn (or "Echa") Udray; Sonja (or "Sonia") Szobel; Ester Chichinsky; and Tanya (or "Tolla") Grajonca, however his youngest sister Tolla died of pneumonia while fleeing the Holocaust.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Selvin|first1=Joel|date=April 6, 1995|title=Fallout From Estate Finally Settles / After disputes, heirs resigned, company strong|url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Fallout-From-Estate-Finally-Settles-After-3037961.php|website=SFGate}}</ref> Rita and Ester moved to the United States and were close to Graham in his later life. Evelyn and Sonja escaped the Holocaust, first to [[Shanghai]], and later, after the war, to Europe.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution |url=https://www.thefhm.org/exhibits/billgrahamrockrollrevolution/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928041406/https://www.thefhm.org/exhibits/billgrahamrockrollrevolution/ |archive-date=September 28, 2023 |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=The Florida Holocaust Museum |language=en-US}}</ref> Graham's nephew and Sonia Szobel's son is musician [[Hermann Szobel]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 2016|title=37. Hermann Szobel, 'Szobel' (1976)|url=https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/-22108/37-hermann-szobel-szobel-1976-22113/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-19|website=Rolling Stone Australia|language=en-AU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419143011/https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/-22108/37-hermann-szobel-szobel-1976-22113/ |archive-date=April 19, 2021 }}</ref>

Graham married [[Bonnie MacLean]] on June 11, 1967, and they had one child, David (born 1968); after many years of not living together the couple divorced in 1975.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-02-26|title=Bonnie MacLean|url=https://art.famsf.org/bonnie-maclean|access-date=2021-04-19|website=FAMSF Search the Collections|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Dividing-a-Lifetime-s-Bounty-Long-painful-3038231.php|title=Dividing a Lifetime's Bounty / Long, painful negotiations over fate of promoter's estate|first1=Joel|last1=Selvin|date=April 5, 1995|website=SFGate}}</ref> With Marcia Sult Godinez, Graham had another son; Alex Graham-Sult and a stepson, Thomas Sult.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/BILL-GRAHAM-S-TANGLED-LEGACY-Battle-Over-Rock-3038566.php|title=BILL GRAHAM'S TANGLED LEGACY / Battle Over Rock Impressario's [sic&#93; Riches|first1=Joel|last1=Selvin|date=April 4, 1995|website=SFGate}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-04-03|title=Bill Graham Retrospective Headlines At The Contemporary Jewish Museum|url=https://hoodline.com/2016/04/bill-graham-retrospective-headlines-at-the-contemporary-jewish-museum/|access-date=2021-04-19|website=hoodline.com|language=en}}</ref>