Editing James Randi (section)

==Personal life==
When Randi hosted his own radio show in the 1960s, he lived in a small house in [[Rumson, New Jersey]], that featured a sign on the premises that read: "Randi—Charlatan".<ref name="scientific skeptic1"/>

In the 1970s and 80s, Randi supported seven [[foster child]]ren.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ghostbusting Magician 'Amazing Randi' Is Honored for Unveiling Phony Psychics |url=https://people.com/archive/ghostbusting-magician-amazing-randi-is-honored-for-unveiling-phony-psychics-vol-26-no-6/ |work=People |language=en |access-date=March 13, 2023 |archive-date=August 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230831220140/https://people.com/archive/ghostbusting-magician-amazing-randi-is-honored-for-unveiling-phony-psychics-vol-26-no-6/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1987, Randi became a [[naturalized citizen]] of the United States.<ref name="7deHF">{{cite journal|last=Randi|first=James|date=September 17, 2001|title=Commentary: Vapid Vultures, Conrad Comments, Grodin Goof, Sleuth Sylvia, Nostradamus Notes, Etc.|journal=Swift|type=Newsletter|access-date=October 29, 2006|url=http://www.randi.org/jr/091701.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20010923194359/http://www.randi.org/jr/091701.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 23, 2001}}</ref> Randi said that one reason he became an American citizen was an incident while he was on tour with Alice Cooper, during which the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] searched the band's lockers during a performance, completely ransacking the room, but finding nothing illegal.<ref name="VALL5">{{cite journal|last=Randi|first=James|date=July 15, 2005|title=On the Soap Box|journal=Swift|type=Newsletter|access-date=May 18, 2007|url=http://www.randi.org/jr/071505on.html#1|archive-url=https://archive.today/20050717025944/http://www.randi.org/jr/071505on.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 17, 2005}}</ref>

In February 2006, Randi underwent [[coronary artery bypass surgery]].<ref name="AZS9c">{{cite journal|last1=Randi|first1=James|last2=Wagg|first2=Jeff|date=February 10, 2006|title=Randi Update|journal=Swift|type=Newsletter|access-date=May 18, 2007|url=http://www.randi.org/jr/2006-02/021006busted.html#i1|archive-url=https://archive.today/20060215193209/http://www.randi.org/jr/2006-02/021006busted.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 15, 2006}}</ref> The weekly commentary updates to his Web site were made by guests while he was hospitalized.<ref name="swift-guestauthor">{{cite journal|last=Bidlack|first=Hal|author-link=Hal Bidlack|date=February 17, 2006|title=Randi Update, The Big Tent, In Closing ...|journal=Swift|type=Newsletter|access-date=October 29, 2006 |url=http://www.randi.org/jr/2006-02/021706hal.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20061231093108/http://www.randi.org/jr/2006-02/021706hal.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 31, 2006}}</ref> Randi recovered after his surgery and was able to help organize and attend The Amaz!ng Meeting in 2007 in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas, Nevada]], his annual convention of scientists, magicians, skeptics, atheists, and freethinkers.<ref name="jNBpZ">{{cite journal|last=Randi|first=James|date=February 2, 2007|title=In Conclusion ...|journal=Swift|type=Newsletter |access-date=October 29, 2007|url=http://www.randi.org/jr/2007-02/020207geller.html#i11|archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090709212526/http://www.randi.org/jr/2007-02/020207geller.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 9, 2009}}</ref>

Randi was diagnosed with [[colorectal cancer]] in June 2009.<ref name="OnAndOffChemo">{{cite web|url=http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/832-randi-on-and-off-chemotherapy.html|title=Randi On (and Off) Chemotherapy|date=January 12, 2010|last=Thorp|first=Brandon K.|work=Swift|publisher=JREF|type=Blog|access-date=July 23, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140708220109/http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/832-randi-on-and-off-chemotherapy.html|archive-date=July 8, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> He had a series of small [[Neoplasm|tumors]] removed from his [[Human gastrointestinal tract|intestines]] during [[laparoscopic surgery]]. He announced the diagnosis a week later at The Amaz!ng Meeting 7, as well as the fact that he was scheduled to begin [[chemotherapy]] in the following weeks.<ref name="SF-Weekly">{{cite news|title=The Demystifying Adventures of the Amazing Randi|last=Mooney|first=Michael J.|url=https://www.sfweekly.com/news/the-demystifying-adventures-of-the-amazing-randi/|newspaper=[[SF Weekly]]|location=San Francisco, CA|publisher=[[Village Voice Media]]|date=August 26, 2009|access-date=June 5, 2022|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916192732/https://www.sfweekly.com/news/the-demystifying-adventures-of-the-amazing-randi/|archive-date=September 16, 2021}} Lengthy article which reported: "He has intestinal cancer and may not have long to live."</ref> He also said at the conference: "One day, I'm gonna die. That's all there is to it. Hey, it's too bad, but I've got to make room. I'm using a lot of oxygen and such—I think it's good use of oxygen myself, but of course, I'm a little prejudiced on the matter."<ref name="SF-Weekly"/>

Randi underwent his final chemotherapy session in December 2009, an experience that he said was not as unpleasant as he had imagined it might be.<ref name="OnAndOffChemo"/> In a video posted in April 2010, Randi stated that he had been given a clean bill of health.<ref name="K9TAr">{{YouTube|id=_WyzM_TsIXc|title=James Randi Speaks Homeopathy Week 2010|link=no}}</ref>

In a 2010 blog entry, Randi [[Coming out|came out]] as [[Homosexuality|gay]], a move he said was inspired by seeing the 2008 biographical drama film ''[[Milk (2008 American film)|Milk]]''.<ref name="az5xi">{{cite web|url=http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/914-how-to-say-it.html|title=How to Say It?|last=Randi|first=James|date=March 21, 2010|work=Swift|publisher=JREF|type=Blog|access-date=October 9, 2013|archive-date=July 30, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140730192159/http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/914-how-to-say-it.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="FQ83a">{{cite podcast |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWDYITbLyTg|title=James Randi – A Skeptic Comes Out at 81|website=For Good Reason|publisher=JREF|host=[[D. J. Grothe|Grothe, D. J.]]|date=March 21, 2010|access-date=June 10, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140628121337/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWDYITbLyTg|archive-date=June 28, 2014}}</ref>

Randi married [[Venezuelans|Venezuelan]] artist José Alvarez (born Deyvi Orangel Peña Arteaga) on July 2, 2013, in Washington, D.C. In 1986, Randi met Alvarez in a Fort Lauderdale public library after he had recently moved to Florida. Alvarez, who was then known as Peña, had left his native land in fear of his life after being threatened for being homosexual. The alias Peña used, Jose Alvarez, was already an actual person in the United States. The identity confusion caused the real Alvarez some legal and financial difficulties. Peña was arrested for identity theft and faced deportation. They resided in [[Plantation, Florida]].<ref name="scientific skeptic1"/><ref name="9wS9S">{{cite web |url=https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/randi-got-married/ |title=Randi got married|last=Coyne|first=Jerry A.|author-link=Jerry Coyne |date=July 12, 2013|work=Why Evolution is True|type=Blog|access-date=October 9, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017022931/http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/randi-got-married|archive-date=October 17, 2013}}</ref><ref name="mrpxq">{{cite web|url=http://www.skepticalabyss.com/?tag=tam-randi-amazing-meeti-g|title=Live Blogging Tam Day Two (Friday)|date=July 12, 2013|work=The Skeptical Abyss|type=Blog|access-date=October 9, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103143722/http://www.skepticalabyss.com/?tag=tam-randi-amazing-meeti-g|archive-date=November 3, 2013}}</ref><ref name="vNju7">{{Cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bw9A1pR0EQa8bVJ4NHZUX19tdzQ/edit?pli=1&usp=embed_facebook|title=Testimonial letters to Judge Hurley|website=Google Docs|access-date=September 19, 2022|archive-date=September 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920170647/https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bw9A1pR0EQa8bVJ4NHZUX19tdzQ/edit?pli=1&usp=embed_facebook|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="2enao">[[Sturgess, Kylie]] (March/April 2015). "Behind the Magic: An Interview with James Randi". ''Skeptical Inquirer'' Volume 39 Number 2, pp. 38–42.</ref>

In the 1993 documentary ''[[Secrets of the Psychics]]'', Randi stated, "I've never involved myself in narcotics of any kind; I don't smoke; I don't drink, because that can easily just fuzz the edges of my rationality, fuzz the edges of my reasoning powers, and I want to be as aware as I possibly can. That means giving up a lot of fantasies that might be comforting in some ways, but I'm willing to give that up in order to live in an actually real world, as close as I can get to it".{{sfn|"Secrets of the Psychics"|loc=10′45″}}

In a video released in October 2017, Randi revealed that he had recently suffered a minor stroke, and that he was under medical advice not to travel during his recovery, so would be unable to attend [[CSICon]] 2017 in Las Vegas later that month.<ref name="IqT69">{{cite web|last=Randi|first=James|title=Video message to CSICon attendees|url=https://www.facebook.com/CSIConference/videos/1484609861615742|website=Facebook|publisher=CSICon – Skeptical Inquirer Conference|access-date=October 17, 2017|archive-date=July 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707215436/https://www.facebook.com/CSIConference/videos/1484609861615742/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Randi died at his home on October 20, 2020, at the age of 92.<ref name="LclJY">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/james-randi-magician-and-stage-artist-devoted-to-debunking-the-paranormal-dies-at-92/2020/10/21/b6e1da3e-13ee-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html|title=James Randi, magician and stage artist devoted to debunking the paranormal, dies at 92|date=October 21, 2020|last=Valentine|first=Paul W.|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=October 22, 2020|archive-date=October 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022051659/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/james-randi-magician-and-stage-artist-devoted-to-debunking-the-paranormal-dies-at-92/2020/10/21/b6e1da3e-13ee-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NYT Obit">{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/obituaries/james-randi-dead.amp.html|title=James Randi, Magician Who Debunked Paranormal Claims, Dies at 92|url-status=live|date=October 21, 2020|last=Fox|first=Margalit|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=October 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022104413/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/obituaries/james-randi-dead.html|archive-date=October 22, 2020}}</ref> The James Randi Educational Foundation attributed his death to "age-related causes".<ref name="JREFDeathNotice">{{cite web|url=https://web.randi.org/home/james-randi-has-died|title=James Randi has died|date=October 21, 2020|publisher=[[James Randi Educational Foundation|JREF]]|work=randi.org|access-date=October 21, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20201021215442/https://web.randi.org/home/james-randi-has-died|archive-date=October 21, 2020|url-status=live|quote=We are very sad to say that James Randi passed away yesterday, due to age-related causes. He had an Amazing life. We will miss him. Please respect Deyvi Peña's privacy during this difficult time.}}</ref> The [[Center for Inquiry]] said that Randi "was the public face of skeptical inquiry, bringing a sense of fun and mischievousness to a serious mission." [[Kendrick Frazier]] said, as part of the statement, "Despite his ferocity in challenging all forms of nonsense, in person he was a kind and gentle man."<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Remembering Randi 1928-2020 |url= |magazine=[[Skeptical Inquirer]] |location=Amherst, New York |publisher=[[Center for Inquiry]] |date=January–February 2021 |access-date=}}</ref>