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Swayzewho was an FAA-licensed pilot with an instrument rating, made the news on June 1, 2000, while flying with his dogs in his twin-engined Cessna 414N414PS, from Van Nuys, California, to Las Vegas, New Mexico. His plane developed a pressurization problem, causing Swayze to make a precautionary landing on a dirt road in a housing complex in Prescott Valley, Arizona. The plane’s right wing struck a light pole, but Swayze was unharmed. According to the police report, witnesses said that Swayze appeared to be extremely intoxicated and asked for help to remove evidence from the crash site, namely an open bottle of wine and a 30-pack of beer.
In an interview with Barbara Walters, which aired in January 2009, Swayze admitted that he had “a tiny little mass” in his liver, but told Walters that he wanted the media to report that he was “kicking it.” When Walters asked him if he was using any holistic or alternative methods of treatment besides chemotherapy, Swayze said he was using some Chinese herbs. He then voiced his opposition to the unsupported claims made by proponents of alternative therapies. Lisa Niemi Swayze’s love for her late husband Patrick Swayze lives on. Over 13 years after the actor died on Sept.
[10/15, 22:27] SKILL INDIA: Lisa Niemi Swayze (born May 26, 1956) is an American writer, dancer, choreographer, actress, and director. She is the widow of actor and dancer Patrick Swayze.
Born
Lisa Anne Haapaniemi
May 26, 1956 (age 67)
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Other names
Lisa Niemi Swayze
Education
Houston Ballet Dance Company
Occupations
Writerdancerchoreographeractressdirector
Years active
1975-present
Spouses
Patrick Swayze
(m. 1975; died 2009)
Albert DePrisco
(m. 2014)
Lisa Anne Haapaniemi was born in Houston, Texas, the only daughter of six children born to Edmond, a Red Cross worker, and Karin Haapaniemi, a registered nurse. Niemi has said her father and her mother’s professions were her inspiration and encouragement. She is of Finnish ancestry. She graduated from the Houston Ballet Dance Company in 1974. She shortened her
surname from Haapaniemi to Niemi in 1977 for her theatre stage name. The Finnish family name translates to “Aspen peninsula”. In the 1970s, Niemi and her husband pursued dance careers in New York City.
Films Lisa Niemi Swayze wrote, directed and starred in the 2003 film One Last Dance alongside her husband. One Last Dance was based on Without a Word, a successful play written 18 years before which had won six Drama Critics Awards. Niemi said, “It was basically based on our experiences as concert dancers in New York, and it affected people a lot.” At age 14, at the Houston Ballet Dance Company, Niemi met the owner and director’s son, Patrick Swayze; the two eventually got married when she was 19 years old. Niemi and Swayze were married on June 12, 1975, and remained married until Swayze’s death from pancreatic cancer on September 14, 2009. Shortly after they wed, the couple moved to New York City to pursue their dance careers until the late 1970s, when they relocated to Los Angeles, California. In addition to dancing and filmmaking, they ran a construction business and raised horses together. The Swayzes had no children.
After her husband’s death, she became the Chief Ambassador of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. In July 2011, she was made a Dame of the Royal Order of Francis I of the Two Sicilies. Swayze, Patrick; Niemi Swayze, Lisa: The Time of My Life. Atria Books, 2010. Niemi Swayze, Lisa: Worth Fighting For: Love, Loss, and Moving Forward. Atria Books, 2012.Niemi Swayze, who married Albert DePrisco in 2014, says getting remarried does not take away from the love story she shared with the “Dirty Dancing” star. Patrick Swayze died of pancreatic cancer in 2009, leaving behind wife Lisa Niemi Swayze, who managed to find love again.

Niemi Swayze, who married Albert DePrisco in 2014, says getting remarried does not take away from the love story she shared with the “Dirty Dancing” star. Lisa Niemi’s heart followed the rhythm of love.

The dancer recently reflected on marrying Albert DePrisco in 2014, after her first husband Patrick Swayze died of pancreatic cancer in 2009.

“I have a dear widow friend. I fell in love with Albert,” Lisa shared on Today April 28. “I said, ‘It’s really weird because it doesn’t conflict with the love that I still have for Patrick.’ And just because somebody’s gone doesn’t mean you fall out of love.”

The 66-year-old tied the knot with the Dirty Dancing star in 1975, and they remained married for 35 years. Yet she felt that, after Patrick’s passing, she still had a part of herself to share with a partner.