Gail Zappa (born January 1, 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - died October 7, 2015 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was the second wife of
Frank Zappa and the executor of the [l301432] (ZFT).
Gail and Frank Zappa met in 1966 when she was working at the [l267182] in Los Angeles. They were married on September 21, 1967, while she was pregnant with her first child,
Moon Zappa. The marriage also produced children
Dweezil Zappa,
Ahmet Zappa, and
Diva Zappa. ’Dweezil’ was a name for one of her oddly-shaped toes and her nickname
Pumpkin was immortalized in [l36284], titled at the time in respect of her ’smoker’s cough’.
Gail Zappa was the sister of
Arthur Sloatman,
Jay Sloatman and the aunt of
Lala Sloatman.