Lindon was in a relationship with Princess Caroline of Monaco from 1990 to 1995.
He has a son from a previous relationship, Marcel, born in 1996.
He married actress Sandrine Kiberlain in 1998, with whom he has a daughter, Suzanne. They divorced in 2008. He had a romance with Chiara Mastroianni.
He is the great-grandnephew of French industrialist André Citroën, the nephew of Jérôme Lindon who directed Les Éditions de Minuit, the first cousin of writer Mathieu Lindon and the great-grand-grand son of French Prime minister Jules Dufaure (from his mother's side).
