Entertainment & Arts Pat Stacy Donahugh; Assistant, Companion to John Wayne L.A. Times Archives April 29, 1995 12 AM PT Pat Stacy Donahugh, 53, companion to John Wayne who wrote a book. According to the memoir, Duke: A Love Story , Wayne's former secretary Pat Stacy became his live-in companion from 1973 until his death. While he completely wrote his wife Pilar Pallete out.
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Pat Stacy discusses her biography of John Wayne, "Duke." She begins by explaining that she started out as his assistant and became his lover. She talks about his other romances and how their relationship had began after he had separated from his last wife. She describes Wayne's emphasis on family values and the close bond he had with his children. They separated in 1973 and he moved in with his former secretary, Pat Stacy, with whom he lived until his death. At least, that's the story she told in her 1983 book Duke: A Love Story. Two days before he died, he converted to Catholicism. Asked why it took him so long, his grandson said Wayne blamed it on being "busy." No argument here. Added: 29 Mar 2011 Find a Grave Memorial ID: 67624961 Source citation Pat was a companion to John Wayne for the last six years of his life. In 1982 she married Richard S. Donahugh. Pat wrote a book about her life with John Wayne. It was titled, A Love Story. John sadly passed away at age 72 on June 11, 1979, after battling cancer. The estate he left behind was worth $6.85 million, however, Pallete didn't receive much of it because of the separation. Advertisement The duo never legally separated or divorced, but Pallete moved from their waterfront home six years before her husband's death.
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Pat Stacy is of the "tell don't show" school of storytelling. For example, she'll mention that Duke spent the night telling stories and then relate not one single story told. Or even a blurb of a story. By the end of the book, I do not know much more about John Wayne than I did when I first picked it up. Except that he preferred Spanish girls. by Pat with Beverly Linet Stacy ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 13, 1983 Stacy was John Wayne's secretary and live-in love-interest during the last seven years of his life--and in this plain, relatively restrained memoir she recalls ""the man I loved, not the legend,"" a man who was ill through much of their time together. Pat Stacy, Beverly Linet Thorndike Press , 1983 - Large print books - 356 pages The woman who shared the last seven years of John Wayne's life writes about the joys and sorrows of their relationship and the actor's courageous struggle with cancer. Since his death, Wayne's third wife, Pilar, his daughter Aissa and former secretary Pat Stacy have each written memoirs that provide their perspectives of Wayne. As for previous biographies.
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Hardcover - Import, January 1, 1983. by Pat Stacy (Author) 4.5 103 ratings. See all formats and editions. Duke: A Love Story, 1983 BCE, by Pat Stacy. An intimate memoir of John Wayne's last years. Hardcover with dust jacket, 173 pages, published by Antheum. Print length. 286 pages. 1 Have read. Duke: A Love Story is a stunning, deeply moving book, the warm, funny, tender and finally, tragic story of the last years of one of America's most beloved men-by the woman he loved. John Wayne and Pat Stacy were together for seven years. For all those years she was his secretary and companion, for the last five the woman he loved.
SANTA ANA, Calif., June 20 (AP) —John Wayne left an estate worth $6.85 million, but none of it will be going to his third wife, Pilar, from whom the actor separated in 1973, according to a will. John Wayne and secretary-companion Pat Stacy demonstrate their affection for each other at a private party hosted by Henry Kissinger at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills on May 19, 1977.
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