In New York Vincent met his future second wife, the exotically named actress Suzi Sidewinder; the pair married after the birth of their son Troy in 1985 and the discovery that Suzi and Troy were HIV positive.
Lovegrove's resignation from Divinyls to care for Suzi and Troy reduced him to penury. Divinyls made good money touring but once Lovegrove went off the road, so did his only source of income. (Hearing of his plight, Jimmy Barnes couriered an envelope stuffed with thousands of dollars, with a note saying, ''Give the family a Christmas, mate''.)
Lovegrove hit every contact he had to raise finance for Suzi's Story in 1987. In 1993 he wrote the book A Kid Called Troy to accompany Troy's television documentary. Sadly, both Suzi and Troy died just weeks before their documentaries aired.