Hayter was married three times: to Edith Fletcher (dissolved 1929), to the American sculptor Helen Phillips (dissolved 1971), and to Irish poet and writer Desiree Moorhead, with whom he lived in Paris at the time of his death in 1988.
Hayter was married twice: to Edith Fletcher (dissolved 1929), and to the American sculptor Helen Phillips (dissolved 1971). Hayter subsequently married Desiree Moorhead, Irish poet and writer with whom he lived in Paris and Éire until his death in Paris in 1988.