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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Famous quotes containing the word marriage:
“For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“In ‘70 he married again, and I having, voluntarily, assumed the legal guilt of breaking my marriage contract, do cheerfully accept the legal penalty—a life of celibacy—bringing no charge against him who was my husband, save that he was not much better than the average man.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)
“Why don’t you go home to your wife? I’ll tell you what. I’ll go home to your wife and outside of the improvements, you’ll never know the difference. Pull over to the side of the road there and let me see your marriage license.”
—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, a wisecrack made to Huxley College’s outgoing president (1932)