Leifer met Lori Wolf, a real estate executive, when they shared a table at a Project Angel Food charity dinner in Los Angeles. Leifer was immediately interested and later contacted Wolf through the host of their table, though Wolf initially rebuffed Leifer's overtures because Wolf was in a relationship at the time. Wolf contacted Leifer weeks later, after she had ended her relationship, and began one with Leifer. They moved in together in 2005, and in acclimating herself to Wolf's pets, Leifer became an animal rights activist. That year, Leifer proposed to Wolf over dinner at the Palm Restaurant in Beverly Hills. On December 5, 2015, they were married by Rabbi Ron Stern at the Brentwood Country Club in Los Angeles. In attendance were Jane Lynch, Larry David, Bill Maher, Garry Shandling, Henry Winkler, Larry Miller, Jay Leno and Paul Reiser. They have an adopted son. Children In 2007 they purchased a $3.2-million, home in the Santa Monica Hills, as part of their preparations to adopt their nine-month-old son, Bruno Leifer-Wolf, who was born in Guatemala in 2006. Leifer was 50 years old at the time, which she felt was the best age for her to have a child, saying "I feel I have a better outlook on life." Veganism Leifer has become vegan, saying "I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan." Leifer has been advocate for animal rights and made testimonials for PETA about her decision to become vegan, encouraging others to do the same. References External links 1956 births Actresses from New York (state) American stand-up comedians American television actresses Television producers from New York (state) American women television producers American television writers Binghamton University alumni American lesbian actresses LGBT Jews Jewish American actresses Jewish American female comedians American women comedians American women television writers Participants in American reality television series Living people People from East Williston, New York Lesbian comedians 20th-century American comedians 21st-century American comedians Screenwriters from New York (state) The Apprentice (franchise) contestants 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses 21st-century American Jews 21st-century LGBT people American Ashkenazi Jews American LGBT comedians