 The Bartoses became generous philanthropists, concentrating on culture, particularly twentieth-century art of which they were avid collectors, filling their Park Avenue (Manhattan) apartment in New York City.Celeste became fabulously wealthy as a result of inheriting the estate of her father, Samuel Gottesman (1885–1956), a Hungarian émigré who had become a pulp-paper merchant and financier.With Celeste, Bartos had a son, Adam, and, from his first marriage, had sons, Armand Jr. and Michael, and daughter Mary Bartos.