Judy Belushi-Pisano, an actor, producer and the widow of legendary funnyman John Belushi, has died at age 73, according to family customers.
Her death was declared Saturday on Belushi’s social media internet pages.
“There was no one like her,” the Pisano and Belushi families said in a assertion. “Judy designed everybody feel loved. She was nonjudgmental, light, humorous and pure. You could be definitely oneself all over her, that by itself was a present.”
Belushi-Pisano was born on Jan. 7, 1951, in Wheaton, Sick., where she satisfied John Belushi while attending the exact same large college.
In 1973, she and John moved to New York to get the job done for Countrywide Lampoon, in accordance to IMBD. She commenced as an art assistant but later on became an associate producer for “The Countrywide Lampoon Radio Hour.”
They married in 1976, in accordance to CBS.
She endured the worst of her husband’s drug addiction struggles through his “Saturday Night Live” profession just before he died of an overdose in 1982 at the age of 36.
She labored on some of Belushi’s legendary comedies like “The Blues Brothers” and “National Lampoon’s Animal House” — exactly where she made uncredited appearances —and invested a lot of her later on lifetime devoted to her late husband’s legacy.
She was associated in earning the 2020 Showtime documentary “John Belushi” about his daily life and also authored his biography.
“As we bid farewell, we pledge to keep on her function, making sure that John’s legacy, and the Blues Brothers will never ever fade,” the Pisano and Belushi households mentioned on Saturday.
Belushi Pisano afterwards married film producer Victor Pisano in 1990. They divorced in 2010. She is survived by her young children and grandchildren, Men and women reported.
