Personal Life
Three years after their first meeting, Sudano and Donna Summer were married by Pastor Jack Hayford on July 16, 1980 at The Church on the Way in Los Angeles, California. He became the step-father of Summer's daughter Mimi, from her first marriage to Austrian actor Helmut Sommer. Sudano and Summer had two more daughters together. Sudano and his family settled on a 56-acre ranch in Thousand Oaks, California.
Their first child, Brooklyn, was born on January 5, 1981 and named after Sudano's beloved hometown because, as Sudano explained, "Obviously I love Brooklyn. It was the name of my group. It's the name of my daughter. I just love being from Brooklyn and all the things that Brooklyn represents in terms of just a basic real, honest, straightforward kind of person. Not pretentious yet artistic and wise and soulful all at the same time. Those are the kinds of things that have stayed with me throughout my whole life."
Their youngest daughter Amanda Grace was born on August 11, 1982.
In 1991 the family moved to Connecticut and remained there for four years. In 1995, they relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, keeping a second home in Englewood, Florida and later buying a third home in Manhattan.
On May 17, 2012, Donna Summer Sudano died from lung cancer. Summer and Sudano had been married for over 30 years and he paid tribute to her with a quote from Proverbs, 31:10-31, The Praises of a Virtuous Woman.
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