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| children = }} Adelaide Gail Zappa (née Sloatman; January 1, 1945 – October 7, 2015) was the wife of musician and composer Frank Zappa and the trustee of the Zappa Family Trust. They met in Los Angeles in 1966 and married while she was pregnant with their first child, Moon, later followed by Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva. In 2002, Gail founded the Zappa Family Trust, a holder for the title and copyright to Frank's musical and artistic products, as well as his commercial image. In 2015, the Trust was given to her son Ahmet shortly before she died of lung cancer. ==Early life== Gail Sloatman was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of a US Navy nuclear weapons researcher, John Klein Sloatman Jr., and grew up in Hollywood where her childhood friends included Jim Morrison. She lived with her family in London, where her father was posted in 1959, and attended Marymount International School. She also modeled for photographer Terence Donovan.〔( Larry LeBlanc, "Industry Profile: Gail Zappa", ''In the Hot Seat with Larry LeBlanc, CelebrityAccess'' ). Retrieved 11 October 2015〕 She 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. After returning to Los Angeles, she met Kim Fowley, and recorded with him as "Bunny and Bear".〔〔( Harvey Kubernik, Scott Calamar, ''Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon'', Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2009, p.88 )〕 She made a very brief appearance with musician boyfriend Bobby Jameson in the documentary film ''Mondo Hollywood'', filmed in 1966.〔( Gregory Adams, "Frank Zappa's Widow Gail Zappa Dies at 70", ''Exclaim.ca'', October 7, 2015 )〕 She 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.〔( Neil Slaven, ''Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa'', Omnibus Press, 2009 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gail Zappa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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