 In 1976, she married Lennart Ringquist, an executive in the motion pictures industry, divorcing in 1980.. She moved to Lexington, Kentucky in the early 1990s and in 2005 moved to Boulder, Colorado to spend her final years near her children.In 2013, she admitted publicly having had an affair with her trainer Lucien Laurin in 1973.Penny Chenery died on September 16, 2017, at her home in Boulder, Colorado from complications from a stroke.