Pamela Stafford - Marriage

Marriage

Pamela moved to Manhattan in the 1970s and has resided there for at least part of the year ever since. In 1982, she married Dr. Elliott Kuritzky, a resident in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital. Dr. Kuritzky graduated Magna Cum Laude from UCLA, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa in the UCLA School of Medicine Dr. Kuritzky died of cancer at age 29 at Mt. Sinai Hospital on August 15, 1983, just a year after wedding Pamela Stafford. Due to the mishandling of his body, Pamela sued Riverside Chapel, a New York City funeral home, for $10 million.

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