Editing David Horowitz (section)

== Personal life ==
Horowitz was married four times. He married Elissa Krauthamer, in a [[Yonkers, New York]], synagogue on June 14, 1959.{{sfn|Horowitz|2011|p=92–95}} They had four children together: Jonathan Daniel, [[Ben Horowitz|Ben]], Sarah Rose (deceased) and Anne. Sarah died in March 2008 at age 44 from [[Turner syndrome]]-related heart complications. She had been a teacher, writer and human rights activist.<ref name="children">{{cite news|url=http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/34713/teacher-writer-human-rights-activist-dies-unexpectedly|title=Teacher, writer, human rights activist dies unexpectedly at 44|last=Palevsky|first=Stacey|date=April 10, 2008|work=JWeekly.com|access-date=January 8, 2010}}</ref><ref name="timesdaughter">{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/25/you-can-lose-people-through-death-and-you-can-lose|title=David Horowitz honors his daughter's life|last=Bunch|first=Sunny|date=November 25, 2009|work=The Washington Times|access-date=January 8, 2010}}</ref> She is the subject of Horowitz's 2009 book, ''A Cracking of the Heart.''<ref name="timesdaughter" />

Horowitz's son, [[Ben Horowitz|Ben]], is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder, along with [[Marc Andreessen]], of the [[venture capital]] firm [[Andreessen Horowitz]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://a16z.com/author/ben-horowitz|title=Ben Horowitz (About)|website=a16z.com|access-date=October 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://forward.com/news/340852/7-things-about-david-horowitz-the-right-wing-polemicist-who-coined-renegade|title=7 Things About David Horowitz, the Right-Wing Polemicist Who Coined 'Renegade Jew' Slur|author=Nathan-Kazis, Josh|date=2016-05-17|website=Forward.com|access-date=2017-02-27}}</ref>

Horowitz's second marriage in 1984, to Sam Moorman, ended in divorce within less than a year.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Disillusioned radicals: The intellectual odyssey of Todd Gitlin, Ronald Radosh and David Horowitz |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/ecf5078505d529a23234b4697721c377/1?cbl=18750&pq-origsite=gscholar |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=ProQuest |language=en}}</ref> On June 24, 1990, Horowitz married Shay Marlowe in an [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]] ceremony.{{sfn|Horowitz|2011|p=413–16}} They divorced. 

Horowitz's fourth and final marriage was to April Mullvain.<ref name="Jacobson" /> The couple met in the mid-1990s, and married two years later.<ref name="Horowitz-2015">{{Cite book |last=Horowitz |first=David |title=You're Going to Be Dead One Day: A Love Story |publisher=Regnery Publishing |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-62157-379-1 |pages=35, 37, 38 and 158}}</ref> He and April lived in horse country northwest of Los Angeles,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Streitfeld |first=David |date=2017-07-22 |title=One Family, Many Revolutions: From Black Panthers, to Silicon Valley, to Trump |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/technology/one-family-many-revolutions-from-black-panthers-to-silicon-valley-to-trump.html |access-date=2025-04-06 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> where she rescues abused horses and provides equine educational programs.<ref name="Horowitz-2015" />

Horowitz, in 2015, described himself as an agnostic.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/12/david-horowitz-romance-age|title=David Horowitz: A romance of age|last=Horowitz|first=David|date=June 12, 2015|work=The Washington Times}}</ref>

Horowitz died from cancer at his home in Colorado, on April 29, 2025, at the age of 86.<ref name = Gabriel>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/us/politics/david-horowitz-dead.html|title = David Horowitz, Leftist Turned Trump Defender, Is Dead at 86|last = Gabriel|first = Trip|date = April 30, 2025|accessdate = April 30, 2025|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]|url-access = limited}}</ref>