Editing Yousuf Karsh (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:Yousuf and Estrellita Karsh with Ronald Reagan.jpg|thumb|Yousuf and Estrellita Karsh with President [[Ronald Reagan]] at the [[White House]] in 1983.]]
Karsh's first marriage was to Solange Gauthier (1902−1961) in 1939.<ref name="people" /><ref name="slate" /> He met her at the [[Ottawa Little Theatre]] in 1933,<ref name="npg uk" /> where she was a performer. Gauthier was born in [[Tours]], France and migrated to Canada as a young girl.<ref name="Solange">{{cite news|date=January 26, 1961|title=Mrs. Karsh, Wife of Photographer, Business Manager of the Portraitist is Dead--Did Research for his Work|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/01/26/archives/mrs-karsh-wife-of-photographer-3usiness-manager-of-the-portraitist.html?nytmobile=0}}</ref> They initially moved into her apartment and in 1940, into an [[Art Deco]] home called Little Wings on the [[Rideau River]] just outside Ottawa.<ref name="ottawacitizen2009" /> She died in January 1961 of cancer.<ref name="Solange" />

His second marriage was to Estrellita Maria Nachbar, a medical writer 21 years his junior, in August 1962.<ref>{{cite news|date=August 29, 1962|title=Yousuf Karsh, Photographer, Marries Estrellita Nachbar|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/08/29/archives/yousuf-karsh-photographer-marries-estrellita-nachbar.html?nytmobile=0}}</ref> Their wedding was officiated by [[Fulton J. Sheen]], Auxiliary Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of New York. From 1972 to 1992 they lived in a third-floor suite at [[Château Laurier]], Ottawa<ref name="cbc.ca" /><ref name="ottawacitizen" /> and maintained Little Wings and an apartment and studio in [[Manhattan]]. They had no children.<ref name="people" /> Estrellita Karsh died in March 2025, at the age of 95.<ref>{{cite web|title=Muse Estrellita Karsh went on to burnish the legacy of photographer Yousuf Karsh|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-muse-estrellita-karsh-went-on-to-burnish-the-legacy-of-photographer/|date=April 15, 2025|last=Freeman|first=Alan|publisher=The Globe and Mail|access-date=May 7, 2025}}</ref>

===Retirement and death===
Karsh retired making photographs in 1993 and moved to Boston in 1997.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Matchan|first1=Linda|date=November 6, 2007|title=She's a portrait of passion|work=[[Boston Globe]]|url=http://archive.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/11/06/shes_a_portrait_of_passion/|quote=...the Karshes moved here from Ottawa 10 years ago...}}</ref> He died on July 13, 2002, at [[Brigham and Women's Hospital]] in Boston after complications following surgery.<ref name="nyt obituary" /><ref name="latimes" /> A private funeral was held in Ottawa.<ref name="latimes" /> He was interred in [[Notre-Dame Cemetery (Ottawa)|Notre-Dame Cemetery]] in Ottawa.<ref>{{cite news|date=May 2, 2010|title=Dozens of tombstones damaged in Ottawa cemetery|agency=[[CTV News]]|url=http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/dozens-of-tombstones-damaged-in-ottawa-cemetery-1.508228|quote=The large grounds host a number of Canadian luminaries, including photographer Yousuf Karsh...}}</ref>