Personal Life
Van Zant married Nadine Inscoe on 2 January 1967. The couple had a daughter, Tammy (born 1968), before divorcing in 1969. He married Judy Seymour in 1972. They remained married up until his death in 1977. They had one daughter, Melody, born in 1976.
In his spare time, Van Zant enjoyed baseball, and was a fan of the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox.
Van Zant had several run ins with the law, especially in 1975, when he was arrested for hurling a table out of a second-story hotel room.
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