[4] After emigrating to the United States in 1986, he married secondly in California in May 1993 Wendy Dawn Buford, daughter of a construction salesman.
They had a son, Alexander Michael Charles David Francis George Edward William Kimble Drogo Montagu, born in 1993.
His third wife was an American real estate agent named Laura Ann Smith, and the marriage was without issue.
On these grounds, he stopped making child support payments and the family trust cut off funds to his children.
In 2011, High Court Justice Christopher Floyd ruled that the two children, even though they were born when their parents were not lawfully married, were entitled to trust funds, as "(Buford) reasonably believed the marriage was valid".