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Sep 3, 2009 · Stella Sampas forged Gabrielle Kerouac's will and stole Jack Kerouac's estate from his daughter, Jan Kerouac.
Feb 15, 1990 · Stella Sampas Kerouac, widow of Beat Generation novelist Jack Kerouac, died over the weekend, the Boston Globe reported. She was 71 and died Saturday of unspecified causes at a hospital here.
Feb 10, 2021 · Today -- February 10 -- we remember Stellas Sampas, who died on this date in 1990. Jack's third wife (married 11-18-66), she appeared in one Kerouac work, Vanity of Duluoz, as Stavroula Savakis. They knew each other from childhood on and he wished her a Happy Valentine in a February 13, 1959 letter:
After Stella Kerouac’s 1990 death, one of her brothers, John Sampas (1932-2017), became the Literary Executor for the Estate of Jack and Stella Kerouac and continued promoting Jack Kerouac’s literary legacy.
Today -- February 10 -- we remember Stellas Sampas, who died on this date in 1990. Jack's third wife, she appeared in one Kerouac work, Vanity of Duluoz, as Stavroula Savakis. Stella inherited Jack's estate when Jack's mom, Gabrielle, died in 1973, triggering the well-known Kerouac estate controversy over the forged will (so said a judge) and ...
He was married, had been for three years, to Stella Sampas Kerouac. She was his third wife. By his second wife, Joan Haverty, he fathered his only child, Jan, whom he disowned. He abandoned...
Jan 25, 2023 · Though Kerouac left Lowell as a teenager, his archives were still in the city, a former mill town 30 minutes northwest of Boston. Stella Sampas, Kerouac’s wife when he died in 1969, was also from Lowell, and the archives stayed in the family, coming under the control of her brother, John, after Stella’s death in 1990.
