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Judy Belushi Pisano, actress and producer who labored in “The Blues Brothers” and “Nationwide Lampoon’s Animal Home” and was additionally the widow of comic John Belushi, has died, in keeping with the late comic’s official social media pages. She was 73.”Right now, our hearts are heavy as we are saying goodbye to our candy Judy,” learn a submit on Instagram on Saturday. Her unwavering dedication and inventive genius alongside Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi gave delivery to The Blue Brothers, a timeless testomony to the facility of music and laughter.”Information of her passing was additionally revealed within the MV Instances, a information outlet masking information about Martha’s Vinyard, the place Belushi Pisano spent most of her later years.
Belushi Pisano met her future husband throughout highschool in Wheaton, Illinois. They married in 1976 and have been collectively till his loss of life from a drug overdose in 1982.
John Belushi and spouse Judy Belushi
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She endured the worst of Belushi’s dependancy struggles and but devoted a lot of her life after his loss of life to honoring his reminiscence. She was concerned within the 2020 Showtime documentary “John Belushi.”
“There was nobody like her. Judy made everybody really feel beloved,” his property stated within the social media submit. “She was nonjudgmental, gentle, humorous and pure. You might be actually your self round her, that alone was a present.”Belushi Pisano married movie producer Victor Pisano in 1990. They divorced in 2010.
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Lucia Suarez Sang
Lucia Suarez Sang is an affiliate managing editor at CBSNews.com. Beforehand, Lucia was the director of digital content material at FOX61 Information in Connecticut and has beforehand written for shops together with FoxNews.com, Fox Information Latino and the Rutland Herald.