Kat was a poet and a waitress working at a bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans. On June 26, 1980 Kat Perkoff died in a white Mercedes after it veered off a highway, hit a concrete bridge support and split cleanly in half. Kat's high-drama, high-impact death was in some way an inexorable conclusion to a life lived with voracious and feverish intensity. In her brief 23 years, Kat Perkoff inhabited many personae: runaway, drug smuggler, gay bar manager, writer, local icon, and key player in the murky underworld of the New Orleans lesbian mafia-a demimonde populated by pimps, prostitutes and corrupt cops. Even for the fast lane of the French Quarter in the early 1970's, Kat's life hurtled along at several times the average speed. The official report of the New Orleans Police Department states that Kat's death was caused by accidental collision. But rumors at the time pointed to a hit, mafia score, and a police cover-up. Her sister Rachel made a feature-length documentary about Kat called Another Lost Angel in 2008.
Survived by her mother Kathleen Jeanne Pynes Walker Perkoff Hebert, father Whitney Charles Walker, step father Harlan Sanford Perkoff, step father Jeffrey James Hebert, ex-husband Andrew Colangelo and sister Rachel Delia Perkoff. Kat was the first lover of Ellen DeGeneres.
Survived by her mother Kathleen Jeanne Pynes Walker Perkoff Hebert, father Whitney Charles Walker, step father Harlan Sanford Perkoff, step father Jeffrey James Hebert, ex-husband Andrew Colangelo and sister Rachel Delia Perkoff. Kat was the first lover of Ellen DeGeneres.
Kat was a poet and a waitress working at a bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans. On June 26, 1980 Kat Perkoff died in a white Mercedes after it veered off a highway, hit a concrete bridge support and split cleanly in half. Kat's high-drama, high-impact death was in some way an inexorable conclusion to a life lived with voracious and feverish intensity. In her brief 23 years, Kat Perkoff inhabited many personae: runaway, drug smuggler, gay bar manager, writer, local icon, and key player in the murky underworld of the New Orleans lesbian mafia-a demimonde populated by pimps, prostitutes and corrupt cops. Even for the fast lane of the French Quarter in the early 1970's, Kat's life hurtled along at several times the average speed. The official report of the New Orleans Police Department states that Kat's death was caused by accidental collision. But rumors at the time pointed to a hit, mafia score, and a police cover-up. Her sister Rachel made a feature-length documentary about Kat called Another Lost Angel in 2008.
Survived by her mother Kathleen Jeanne Pynes Walker Perkoff Hebert, father Whitney Charles Walker, step father Harlan Sanford Perkoff, step father Jeffrey James Hebert, ex-husband Andrew Colangelo and sister Rachel Delia Perkoff. Kat was the first lover of Ellen DeGeneres.
Survived by her mother Kathleen Jeanne Pynes Walker Perkoff Hebert, father Whitney Charles Walker, step father Harlan Sanford Perkoff, step father Jeffrey James Hebert, ex-husband Andrew Colangelo and sister Rachel Delia Perkoff. Kat was the first lover of Ellen DeGeneres.
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