 From 1944 to 1950, he was married to socialite, actress, and TV producer Phyllis Adams (1923-2004), whom he had a story before Lee, and they had one daughter, Alexandra "Sandy" Marsh, who committed suicide falling down from the Park Belvedere 28th floor in 1987.Adams later remarried, in 1955, to art director George Jenkins.In the 1950s Kirkland owned an art gallery in Palm Beach, Florida, and in 1945 he purchased Villa del Sarmiento, an oceanfront Palm Beach estate.