Ricardo Fort developed a close relationship with his mother, opera singer Marta Campa.

[4] Fort developed businesses in the textile industry and in modeling as well as owned the Fortmen clothing line.

[citation needed] In 2010, Fort was selected to be one of the judges of the seventh season of Bailando por un Sueño 2010.

In 2010, Fort revealed in an interview on the talk show Tienen la Palabra that his twin children Felipe and Marta were born of a surrogate mother found through the auspices of a company in California.

[9] Fort died on 25 November 2013 in a Buenos Aires clinic, due to cardiac arrest following a gastrointestinal bleeding.