Editing Jonathan Demme (section)

==Personal life==
Demme was married twice. His first marriage to Evelyn Purcell ended in divorce.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Schruers |first=Fred |date=May 19, 1988 |title=Jonathan Demme: Making Movies for Love, Not Money |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/jonathan-demme-making-movies-for-love-not-money-192367/ |access-date=July 29, 2023 |archive-date=July 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729163022/https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/jonathan-demme-making-movies-for-love-not-money-192367/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1987, he married artist Joanne Howard, with whom he had three children.<ref name="Demme" /> He was the uncle of film director [[Ted Demme]], who died in 2002.<ref name="teddemme">{{cite news|last1=Baxter|first1=Brian|title=Ted Demme obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/jan/18/guardianobituaries.filmnews|access-date=April 26, 2017|work=The Guardian|date=January 17, 2002|archive-date=July 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230724100610/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/jan/18/guardianobituaries.filmnews|url-status=live}}</ref> Demme's cousin was the [[Robert W. Castle|Rev. Robert Wilkinson Castle Jr.]], an Episcopal priest who appeared in some of Demme's films.

Demme was a member of the steering committee of the Friends of the [[Apollo Theatre (Oberlin, Ohio)|Apollo Theater, Oberlin, Ohio]], along with [[Danny DeVito]] and [[Rhea Perlman]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://new.oberlin.edu/apollo/friends.dot|title=Friends of the Apollo|publisher=Oberlin College|access-date=July 6, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414075647/http://new.oberlin.edu/apollo/friends.dot|archive-date=April 14, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2013, he returned to Oberlin as part of an alumni reunion during the class of 2013 graduation ceremony and received the award for Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oberlin.edu/news/jonathan-demme-passes-away|title=Jonathan Demme Passes Away|date=2017-06-06|website=Oberlin College and Conservatory|language=en|access-date=2019-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190221225333/https://www.oberlin.edu/news/jonathan-demme-passes-away|archive-date=February 21, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2009, Demme signed a petition in support of director [[Roman Polanski]], who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 [[Roman Polanski sexual abuse case|sexual abuse charges]], which the petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely", and that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door "for actions of which no-one can know the effects."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-06-04 |title=Le cinéma soutient Roman Polanski / Petition for Roman Polanski - SACD |url=http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170322120027/http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 22, 2017 |access-date=2022-04-20 |website=archive.ph }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Shoard |first1=Catherine |author2=Agencies |date=September 29, 2009 |title=Release Polanski, demands petition by film industry luminaries |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-petition |url-status=live |access-date=June 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628013652/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-petition |archive-date=June 28, 2019}}</ref>

Demme was an avid collector and devotee of [[Haitian art]], in particular of [[Hector Hyppolite]] - so much so that he called it "an addiction". In 2014, he held an auction in Philadelphia selling thousands from his collection, much of which was donated to a cultural center in [[Port-au-Prince]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artnews.com/2017/04/26/a-look-into-jonathan-demmes-history-of-collecting-outsider-art/ |title=A Look into Jonathan Demme's History of Collecting Outsider Art |editor=Freeman, Nate |date=April 26, 2017 |publisher=Art. News |access-date=July 17, 2017 |archive-date=May 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506153008/http://www.artnews.com/2017/04/26/a-look-into-jonathan-demmes-history-of-collecting-outsider-art/ |url-status=live }}</ref>