Pada 1986, ia menjadi warga negara AS dengan istrinya Ser Moeun Dith, yang kemudian bercerai. Ia kemudian menikah dengan Kim DePaul tetapi mereka juga bercerai.[1]
1234Martin, Douglas (31 Maret, 2008). "Dith Pran, "Killing Fields" Photographer, Dies at 65". The New York Times. Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 film that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his people's rights, died on Sunday at a hospital in New Brunswick, NJ He was 65 and lived in Woodbridge, NJ
↑Pyle, Richard (31 Maret 2008). ""Killing Fields" survivor Dith Pran dies". The Associated Press. Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film "The Killing Fields," died Sunday. He was 65.