Brigit Fortesque had a son in 1966 who was given up for adoption shortly after birth. This caused a major scandal, especially as she refused to reveal the father's identity (the rumour goes the child was fathered by music composer Siegfried Wolff). In 1976, Fortesque was briefly married to real-estate manager Timothy Bellington (1939) but he filed for divorced after just four months of marriage after discovering his wife was having an affair with his younger half-brother John.