Founded the André Sobel River of Life Foundation, which will provide financial assistance to single caregivers of children with life-threatening illnesses.
Widowed on January 4, 1996, the day her husband, Erwin Sobel, died of cancer at age 57 in California.
On October 3, 1975, her son, André Jennings, is born in Los Angeles. On December 17, 1978, her daughter, Simone Louise, is born in Los Angeles. On January 12, 1995, her son dies at age 19 in San Diego from a brain tumor.