That may well be, but he still didn't like Miss Kitty's "Kitty".

The Aids got her because her 4th husband was a backdoor boy with anyone
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A friend of mine who is a lesbian saw "Miss Kitty" dancing with a women at a gay bar in the 1980s. Bartender told my friend that Amanda Blake and her husband were bisexual swingers. At the time my friend told me the story the husband was still alive.

great info;thank you!

I know this is an old thread but i would like to clear up some of the misinformation here. I have personal knowledge of Amanda's situation and what went on at the time. My mother was a dear, dear friend of hers.
Amanda never told anyone she was ill and dying. She didn't tell close friends, she didn't tell family. No one knew until she had died. There were four people who know and two of them only knew because they were with her when she received her diagnosis. If she had any idea what the diagnosis would have been, she would not have taken them with her.
She did, indeed, know Mark Spaeth was gay when they married. It was strictly a business transaction. They had been friends for a long time and he wanted to marry "Miss Kitty" to further his political ambitions. He had no idea he was sick and was making long-term plans for the future. He did NOT infect with HIV because their marriage was never consummated. As I said, she knew he was gay. He owned a very nice duplex in Austin. She lived in one side of the duplex and he lived in the other with his partner. They were not intimate.
She had various risk factors, some of which have been listed above. Some haven't. She never revealed how she was infected. She never revealed she had AIDS except to very few people. No one would have known if the woman, Pat Derby, and Pat's partner, Ed, had not chosen to reveal the information to the media. No one was interested and accepted that she died of cancer. It was a very complicated situation with her family and with Pat Derby.
She died from Cardiac Arrest secondary to CMH Hepatitis, which is an AIDS-related hepatitis. She had co-morbid throat cancer but that did not kill her. da0Her very best friend and the friend's husband took her ashes to Kenya and scattered them there as that was Amanda's favorite place on Earth. She has a panel on the AIDS quilt.

I remember reading that when she died it was her maid/housekeeper that revealed to the media it was AIDS related contracted from her husband.

She knew he was gay before she married him. He was upfront with her about that. Also, he did not know he had HIV at that time. When he found he had it, he told her. She left him.

Hey toolkien,
Don't be so hard on the guy.
Maybe Hoohawninny had an irony fall on his head when he was young.
Most of "those types" always have an excuse for their hate while berating other's comments as such.
Sure, it doesn't matter how she died, but when it's from someone's willful negligence, it's always more tragic, because it was preventable. And that's what brings it up to the level of murder, or at least voluntary manslaughter.
"Go back to your oar, For2000ty One."

If he knew he had this deadly disease and didn't tell the woman he was sleeping with, how does someone criticizing him for suddenly become ignorant? You seem to want to sympathize with a person who basically gave a death sentence to his wife and get angry at someone who thinks that is wrong. Knee-jerk bleeding heart reaction.
Some people are afraid of the unknown. I don't know why, and it scares me.

It was meant to be douchbagyou obviously didn't get the irony!

Hoohawnaynay's coment is more idiotic than Cezar's, since Hoohawnaynay purports to be less ignorant and less stupid.

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The doctor, Lou Nishimura, a Sacramento internist, said Monday that Miss Blake, who died at age 60 on Aug. 16, did have throat cancer. But he added,
''That wasn't the reason that she died.''
Dr. Nishimura spoke after a report by television station KRBK in Sacramento, where Miss Blake was a longtime resident, quoted her friends as saying now that her death was related to AIDS. He said that she had suffered from AIDS symptoms for about a year but that he did not know how she had contracted the disease.
Miss Blake's fifth husband, Mark Spaeth, a developer and City Councilman in Austin, Tex., died of pneumonia in 1985 at age 45. They married in April 1984, and divorced a short time later.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=950DEFD8 1031F93BA35752C1A96F948260
The doctor said she died of AIDS. Her sodomite husband did not tell her he had AIDS or that he had sex with males. People like that should be executed.
He is guilty of murder.

Yes, Amanda was as sweet lady. Shame how she got AIDS. She is missed.
Not a
anymore!

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I tell you she was a truly wonderful lady, very unassuming and very genuine. I had the pleasure of working at a talent agency in her last few years. She was on my favorite show of all time, growing up I loved "Gunsmoke" and, of course, Miss Kitty too. I met lots of actors during this time at the agency and most of my idols were not what one would want them to be, but I can honestly say she was just a dream come true! Such a sweet lady and a damn shame she died so young. It is heartbreaking to think of it still these 20 years later, I cannot believe it. DeForest Kelley was another sweet unassuming, man in jeans (as Amanda was too) and a regular person. I cherish the photo I have with her. I just can't say enough about her.loved her.
Happy Birthday! Today she would have been 80!

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"deserved to live longer"
Our days are numbered from birth.
Get your soul right with Yeshua while you still have the opportunity to do so, eternity is a long time to be wrong and separated from GODs love.

LOL. I know!! So true!!

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A very nice lady who deserved to live longer. I can't believe all the ignorant comments made about HIV on these posts. I thought people were smarter these days? If I went around saying some of these things to people they would lock me up quicker than Britney Spears babbling in an english accent!

Amanada Blake acquired the virus from her fourth and last husband Mr. Mark Speath, an Austin TX city-council man. He was an active bi-sexual during the latter part of the seventies when little information was known about the disease. They married in a ceremony in Texas in 1984 and and Mr. Speath passed in 1985, almost a year after their marriage. She fought a long and hard battle, but lost in the end. Her immune system had been terribly weakened from a previous fight from throat and pallet cancer. She passed on August 16, 1989 at the age of 60. After cremation her ashes were spread over the wildlife refuge which she founded in CA. She is gone and will never be forgotten. We love you Kitty.

So is your name " Amanda " or " Kitty " ?

Mark Spaeth was a PIECE of CRAP!!!!!!!!!!! Not telling her he had AIDS!