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Lala Sloatman (niece) Adelaide Gail Zappa (née Sloatman; January 1, 1945 – October 7, 2015) was the wife of musician and composer Frank Zappa and the trustee of the Zappa Family Trust. They met in Los Angeles in 1966 and married while she was pregnant with their first child, Moon, followed by Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva.
Aug 17, 2024 · Moon Unit Zappa details her difficult relationship with her dad, rock legend Frank Zappa, and her mother, Gail Zappa — and her father's final months — in her new memoir 'Earth to Moon'.
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Oct 8, 2015 · Here’s how it works. Gail Zappa—wife of Frank Zappa and guardian of his creative life—died October 7 at age 70. A statement from the Zappa Family Trust says she died at home, surrounded by her children. The cause of death was not stated, though she reportedly had battled with lung cancer. Born Adelaide Gail Sloatman, she married Frank ...
Aug 2, 2016 · Instead, Gail, the daughter of a nuclear physicist who reportedly worked on the Manhattan Project, became the exacting, often litigious gatekeeper of the Zappa family business.
Oct 8, 2015 · Louder. Love Of My Life: Gail Zappa Dies at 70. By Philip Wilding. published 8 October 2015. Gail Zappa, Frank's wife and executor and head of the Zappa Family Trust, has died aged seventy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.
Aug 20, 2024 · Moon Unit Zappa with her mother, Gail Zappa, and her father, Frank Zappa, in 1968. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty "I set out to do a couple of different things with the book," Moon says.
Moon Unit Zappa has again opened up about her life growing up with Frank Zappa as her father, saying that everyone in the family had to make sacrifices for him. “In my opinion, we were all given the short end of the stick, [mother] Gail included,” she tells Mojo. “Sacrifices were made by everyone so that the genius could be out in the ...