1. Adelaide Gail Zappa was the wife of musician and composer Frank Zappa and the trustee of the Zappa Family Trust.
17 Facts About Gail Zappa
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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.
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Adelaide Gail Zappa Sloatman was born in Philadelphia to John Klein Sloatman Jr.
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Gail Zappa had 7 siblings, including 1 half-sibling from her father's previous marriage to Joan Lou Gatt.
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Gail Zappa was named after her maternal grandmother, Adelaide Silva.
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Gail Zappa grew up in Hollywood, and lived with her family in London, where her father was posted in 1959, and attended Marymount International School.
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Gail Zappa 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.
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Gail Zappa made a very brief appearance with then musician boyfriend Bobby Jameson in the documentary film Mondo Hollywood, filmed in 1966.
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Gail Zappa 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.
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Gail Zappa met her future husband Frank Zappa in 1966 when she was working as a secretary at the Whisky a Go Go nightclub on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles.
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Gail Zappa had a fraught relationship with her oldest daughter, Moon, which seemed to have been repaired at the end of Gail Zappa's life.
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An interview with Gail Zappa was featured in the 1987 book Rock Wives, written by Victoria Balfour.
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Frank Gail Zappa named Barking Pumpkin Records after his wife's chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or smoker's cough.
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At the time of his death in 1993, Frank urged Gail Zappa to withdraw from the music business, but never clarified what was to be done with his publishing catalog.
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In 2002, Gail founded the Zappa Family Trust, intended to oversee the release of his recordings, including multiple previously unavailable works.
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Gail Zappa claimed that Warner had broken up the Lather recordings into individual albums.
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In July 2015, it was announced that Ahmet Gail Zappa would take over operation of the trust.