![]() ![]() But, upon her death, it was revealed that the Zappa estate would not be divided equally among the four Zappa children, leaving Moon Unit and Dweezil in a weaker financial position. Gail had a fraught relationship with her oldest daughter, Moon Unit, which seemed to have been repaired at the end of Gail's life. The marriage also produced children Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva Zappa. They married in a civil ceremony in New York on September 21, 1967, late in her pregnancy with Moon Unit Zappa, born a week later. She met her future husband Frank Zappa in 1966 when she was working as a secretary at the Whisky a Go Go nightclub on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. She met Vito Paulekas and Carl Franzoni, the leaders of what became known as the " freak scene" in Los Angeles, and by her own account became something of a groupie. Zappa made a very brief appearance with then musician boyfriend Bobby Jameson in the documentary film Mondo Hollywood, filmed in 1966. The record is a satire of Sonny and Cher. After returning to Los Angeles, she met producer Kim Fowley, and recorded a spoken word single with him as "Bunny and Bear". She worked at the Office of Naval Research and Development, and then moved to New York, where she studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in the mid-1960s. She also modeled for photographer Terence Donovan. She grew up in Hollywood, and lived with her family in London, where her father was posted in 1959, and attended Marymount International School. She was named after her maternal grandmother, Adelaide Silva. She had 7 siblings, including 1 half-sibling from her father's previous marriage to Joan Lou Gatt. (1915–1967), who was a second generation German-American and nuclear physicist with the United States Navy, and Laura Freitas (born 1921), who was born in Honolulu of Portuguese ancestry. In 2015, the Trust was given to her son Ahmet shortly before she died of lung cancer.Īdelaide Gail Sloatman was born in Philadelphia to John Klein Sloatman Jr. In 2002, Gail Zappa founded the Zappa Family Trust, a holder of the title and copyright to Frank Zappa's musical and artistic products, as well as his commercial image. Gail was also the aunt of model and actress Lala Sloatman. They met in Los Angeles in 1966 and married while she was pregnant with their first child, Moon Unit, followed by Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva. ![]() Adelaide Gail Zappa ( née Sloatman Janu– October 7, 2015) was the wife of musician and composer Frank Zappa and the trustee of the Zappa Family Trust. ![]()
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