1. Jean Kasem is the widow of radio personality and actor Casey Kasem.
15 Facts About Jean Kasem
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Jean Kasem is of Norwegian heritage on her mother's side.
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Jean Kasem was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she lived before her civil-servant father moved the family to Guam in 1963.
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Jean Kasem attended the University of Guam at age 16.
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Jean Kasem relocated to California and unsuccessfully attempted to find work in broadcast journalism.
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Jean Kasem played the recurring role of Loretta Tortelli, the wife of Nick Tortelli on Cheers and as a cast-member of the short-lived spinoff The Tortellis.
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Jean Kasem has a short, but memorable appearance in the original Ghostbusters movie.
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Jean Kasem holds twelve patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, all pertaining to crib and canopy design, developed for her crib business, Little Miss Liberty Round Crib Company.
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Jean Kasem was married to radio personality Casey Kasem from 1980 until his death in 2014, and they had one child together, Liberty Jean Kasem.
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In 1989, Casey Kasem purchased a house built in 1954, previously owned by developer Abraham M Lurie, as a birthday present for her.
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Casey Jean Kasem had three children from a previous marriage: Kerri, Julie, and Mike Jean Kasem.
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In October 2013, Kerri Jean Kasem said that her father was suffering from Parkinson's disease; a few months later, she said Casey Jean Kasem had been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, which is often difficult to differentiate from Parkinson's.
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On October 1,2013, Kerri Kasem, her siblings, their uncle, Casey's brother, as well as numerous friends and colleagues protested outside Casey and Jean Kasem's home, saying Jean Kasem had been preventing contact with Casey Kasem for three months.
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The court ordered an investigation into Casey Kasem's whereabouts, after Jean Kasem's attorney argued the court had no jurisdiction as he was "no longer in the United States," but did not give any information to the court about Kasem's whereabouts.
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Jean Kasem's widow was given her husband's body for funeral arrangements, and Casey Kasem was buried in the Vestre Gravlund cemetery in Oslo, Norway.