Lori Haigh
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Lori Haigh (born August 25, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) was born to a Navy physician and an elementary school teacher, Lori lived all over the world as many children of the military do. She spent her younger years in Gaeta, Italy, where a NATO base is located. Her father was the personal physician to the admiral of the Sixth Fleet. the USS Little Rock was the first US Navy ship stationed in Gaeta. The town is host to the families of the crews who work on the ship. There is a DOD school for American children. Her family later relocated back to the states. First to Boston and then to Southern California where her father was the chief of family practice for Kaiser Healthgroup. Her father eventually became a state prison physician and personal physician to James Earl Ray.
Lori graduated from Villa Park High School in 1982 with an interest in photojournalism and took classes at UCLA film school, eventually working at CBS/LA. As a documentary filmmaker, Lori has worked in the film industry for over 25 years. She was linked to Charlie Stack, son of "Unsolved Mysteries" and "The Untouchables" Robert Stack for many years.
She has two sons: Christopher (born 1990) and Benjamin (born 1999).
In 2002, Lori Haigh was awarded a 1.2 million dollar settlement when a Catholic priest named Fr. John P. Lenihan admitted to the LA Times under the psudoname "Father X" his multiple molestations of teen girls during the 1970s and 1980s. He wrote a letter to the Pope requesting release from the priesthood. the Church sent Lenihan to a treatment center in Canada which he left without notice. http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=46&aid=25001. A quote from the LA Times article:
"Bishop Tod D. Brown of Orange County last week acknowledged that Haigh had been molested, saying, "I am deeply sorry for the hurt caused by the actions of Father Lenihan, and extend my apology to Ms. Haigh and all victims of sexual abuse by clergy."
In 2002, suffering more and more the effects of rheumatoid arthritis, Lori opened a local art gallery near her home in the North Beach section of San Francisco where she displayed the works of such notible artists as Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO, Winston Smith (artist), Paul Maverides, Mark Bode, KRK Ryden, Mark Ryden, Maxon Crumb, Robert Crumb among others. The Capobianco Gallery had become a local hangout for a select breed of artists much like the beatnik days of San Francisco in the early 1960's. On any given day, you could see Jack Hirschman sitting with V Vale having coffee and chatting with Lori.
In March of 2004, Lori was physically attacked and beaten for displaying a painting depicting the atrocity committed at Abu Ghraib prison in her gallery by Berkeley artist Guy Colwell. A message on the Capobianco Gallery answering machine states she was lucky to get away with such a minor beating, that a shovel or crowbar would have been a better choice than just a fist. That message can still be heard at the gallery's website. http://www.capogallerysf.com
Winston Smith (artist) spoke about it with Lori here in this clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgpFz86uoS8
Since then, Lori closed her gallery and has all but vanished. A composer, songwriter and musician, Lori had been seen occasionally at local San Francisco writer's nights playing guitar. She had been donating her time and service to the concerns and needs of the women and children within theZapatista Army of National Liberation movement in Chiapas and Oaxaca Mexico.
Today she lives the life of a reclusive misanthrope. She stated, "I am not a protester, I am not an activist. I am an observer. And at this point, I have seen enough."
She occasionally works with longtime friend Elizabeth D'Onofrio. She recently produced a Stanislavski actor's workshop in New York starring both Elizabeth D'Onofrio and Vincent D'Onofrio.
