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==Personal life== Young was raised as the son of Fokke Jan de Jong and his wife Anna. They already had three children Cornelia, Antonia and Ferdinand. His mother had an affair while her husband was stationed in Indonesia, and Young's biological father was a singer, Johannes<!-- last name not seen in source -->.<ref name="Money"/> When Young was in his 40s he met Johannes and found that he had three other half-siblings.<ref name="Aus Story"/> His first marriage was to Jane, with whom he had his son Craig, but the marriage ended in divorce and Jane died of [[leukemia|leukaemia]].<ref name="Money"/> In the early 1970s, he married his second wife Cathy and they had two daughters Anna and Fleur.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}} Both his mother and step-father died in 1989 and his marriage to Cathy ended by 1995. Young married Rose McKimmie on 24 December 1999 in [[Bali]] and they lived in a battery-operated rural cottage about an hour-and-half from Melbourne.<ref name="Aus Story"/> In February 2014 he said the marriage to Rose had been a mistake and lasted only eighteen months.<ref name="Money"/> He married Marisha, an economist, in 2002 and they remain together as of 2017.<ref name="Money"/><ref name="Bennett"/> Young has had three children, Craig (died c. 2014 of [[pancreatic cancer]]),<ref name="Bennett"/> Anna and Fleur; nine grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Anna is a singing and dancing teacher for seniors at The Johnny Young Talent School,<ref name="Bennett"/> after studying at Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and performing in musical theatre. Fleur works in fashion.<ref name="Bennett"/>
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