Gerry DeFord & Shelley Winters

1987 - 2006
Shelley Winters and Gerry DeFord  
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Gerry DeFord and Shelley Winters were married for 1 day before Shelley Winters died aged 85.

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American Actress Shelley Winters passed away on 14th Jan 2006 Beverly Hills, CA, USA aged 85. Born Shirley Schrift on 18th August, 1920 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA and educated at Studied at The New School in New York City, Shelley Winters is most remembered for Two-time academy award winning actress in a career that spanned 1936–2006. Her zodiac sign is Leo.

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Relationship Statistics

StatusDurationLength
Dating1987 - 13th Jan 2006 19 years
Married13th Jan 2006 - 14th Jan 2006 1 day
Total 1987 - 14th Jan 2006 19 years


(13 January 2006 - 14 January 2006) (her death)
on January 13, 2006, hours before her death.
Hours before her death, Winters married long-time companion Gerry DeFord, with whom she had lived for 19 years. Though Winters' daughter objected to the marriage, the actress Sally Kirkland performed the wedding ceremony for the two at Winters' deathbed. Kirkland, a minister of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, also performed non-denominational last rites for Winters.

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Relationship Timeline

13th January, 2006 - Marriage

2006 - Breakup

1987 - Hookup

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Bucky76Dec 8, 2020

Gerry DeFord was gay and a con artist. He conned an elderly named Lillian -can't remember her last name - I lived with him and his partner (Daniel Norgard who died of AIDS IN 1974) in Oakland in 1978. I had known him since 1971.


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