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In 1964 Brash married his first wife, Erica, with whom he had two children. In the 1980s he and his Singaporean secretary, Je Lan Lee, entered into a relationship. Both were married at the time. He separated from his first wife in 1985 and four months after they were divorced he married Lee.<ref>{{cite news |title = Brash remarried "after 4 months" |url = http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3555398 |newspaper = The New Zealand Herald |date = 18 March 2004 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121025044911/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3555398 |archive-date = 25 October 2012 |url-status = dead
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10401116 |title=Brash takes break over marriage difficulties|work=[[The New Zealand Herald]]|date=13 September 2006}}</ref> In 2007, his second marriage also broke up, following an affair with Diane Foreman, then Deputy Chair of the [[Business Round Table]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00199.htm |title=Why Brash's Failure Is More Strategic|work=State of It |publisher=Scoop.co.nz|last= Manning |first= Selwyn|date= 14 September 2006|access-date=30 April 2011 }}</ref> Brash and Lee had one child together.<ref>{{cite news | title = Brash marriage over | work = Sunday Star-Times | publisher = Fairfax NZ Ltd | date = 1 January 2009 | url = http://www.stuff.co.nz/4305302a11.html | access-date = 1 January 2009 | archive-date = 5 June 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080605040117/http://www.stuff.co.nz/4305302a11.html | url-status = dead }}</ref>
 
At present, Brash’s closest friend is Wayne Wilson, a retired judge and retired semi-professional tennis player residing in Christchurch, New Zealand.
 
== Early career ==