Sol Kerznerhas is the youngest of four children to Jewish Russian immigrants. His family started a hotel chain
Sol Kerznerhas been married four times, and has a total of five children with six grand children. His first wife was Mary Adler, with whom he had three children. He later divorced her and married Sylvia Best bier and together they had two children before she committed suicide in 1978. Third on the line was the one time Miss world, Anneline Kriel. They stayed in the same house for five years before divorcing. Currently, he is married to his fourth wife, Heather Kerzner, who brought with her two step-sons, Charlie and Savanna.
On October 11, 2006, his son (Howard Butch Kerzner) was involved in a helicopter crash in Puerto Plata near Sosua, Dominican Republic. He died after the accident.