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Judy Belushi Pisano, the widow of legendary comic John Belushi who spent many years preserving and defending his legacy, died Friday after a protracted battle with most cancers. She was 73.
Information of Pisano’s passing was reported Saturday by the MV Instances information outlet protecting Martha’s Winery, the place Pisano spent most of her later years. Her loss of life was additionally confirmed on the official John Belushi Instagram account.
Pisano was married to Belushi, the larger-than-life star of “Saturday Night time Stay,” “Animal Home” and “The Blues Brothers,” from 1973 till his loss of life from an overdose in 1982. Pisano endured the worst of Belushi’s infidelity and dependancy struggles, but she devoted a lot of her life to honoring his reminiscence. She was a producer on quite a few latter-day “Blues Brothers”-related initiatives and was concerned within the 2020 Showtime documentary “John Belushi.”
John Belushi is buried on Martha’s Winery. Pisano first got here to the island off Massachusetts in 1974 on the recommendation of a pal, in response to MV Instances.
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“Right now, our hearts are heavy as we are saying goodbye to our candy Judy. Her unwavering dedication and inventive genius alongside Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi gave start to The Blues Brothers, a timeless testomony to the ability of music and laughter,” the Belushi Instagram put up acknowledged. “Within the years following John’s passing in 1982, Judy honored his life and championed his legacy and Blues Brothers model. As we bid farewell, we pledge to proceed her work, guaranteeing that John’s legacy and the Blues Brothers won’t ever fade. There was nobody like her. Judy made everybody really feel cherished. She was nonjudgmental, gentle, humorous, and pure. You can be really your self round her, that alone was a present.”
Pisano labored as a radio producer in New York within the mid-Nineteen Seventies when her husband’s star started to rise along with his work with the Second Metropolis comedy troupe and when he tapped in 1975 as a part of the inaugural solid of “Saturday Night time Stay.” She had uncredited roles in Belushi’s two blockbuster film hits, 1978’s “Animal Home” and 1980’s “The Blues Brothers.” In 1990, she married Victor Pisano however the union led to divorce in 2010.
In line with MV Instances, Pisano was lively within the arts on the island and sometimes hosted Blues Brothers-related occasions. “On the Island, she held a screening of the movie ‘John Belushi: Dancing on the Edge’ to profit Martha’s Winery Neighborhood Companies and a present with Daniel Aykroyd, the opposite Blues Brother, to profit the Martha’s Winery Playhouse,” the MV Instances reported.