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Born to August ("Gus") and Virginia Galluzzo, Foat graduated from Grace Downs Academy and became a flight attendant.
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She is currently serving as a city councilmember in Palm Springs, California. She left home for a home for unwed mothers, where she stayed until she had the baby, which was given up for adoption. In her 1985 autobiography, she describes enduring five years of domestic violence, receiving her first beating on their honeymoon.
Sidote was eventually convicted of manslaughter in California in the 1967 slaying of Okeni Moe, and she left him.
She was released after three months when Sidote refused to testify against her in the Nevada case. Foat campaigned for the national vice presidency of National Organization for Women in 1982, but National Organization for Women member Shelly Mandell alerted Louisiana authorities of Foat"s identity, and she was arrested and put on trial in 1983 in Gretna, Louisiana.
Foat was acquitted, but the incident affected her political ambitions. Foat wrote an autobiography and worked for several political causes throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
During that time she came out as lesbian.
Foat was elected to fill an unexpired term on the Palm Springs City Council in 2003, then elected to a full four-year term the following year.
