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Jean Kasem with husband Casey

Jean Thompson Kasem (born 1954 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Loretta Tortelli, the dim-witted wife of Nick Tortelli (Dan Hedaya) on Cheers and the short-lived spinoff The Tortellis. She also had a brief appearance in Ghostbusters as one of Louis Tulley's party guests.

She has been married to Casey Kasem since 1980 and they have one child together, Liberty Irene Kasem (born May 31 1990). She holds eleven patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, all pertaining to crib and canopy design, developed for her crib business, Little Miss Liberty Round Crib Company.http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=in%2Fkasem-jean%0D%0A&d=PTXT