Patrick Swayze’s Widow has Found Love Again

By Jason Schwartz

Lisa Niemi, the actress, author and dancer who was married to Patrick Swayze for nearly 34 years before his death in 2009, has remarried to jeweler Albert Deprisco, the Boca Raton Tribune has learned.

The Boca Raton couple swapped vows Sunday at The Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, in front of more than 50 family and friends. The 57-year-old bride wore an Oscar de la Renta dress and the 58-year-old groom chose an Ermenegildo Zegna custom jacket and slacks.

“How often does lighting strike twice?” Niemi Swayze said on Twitter, adding that it was “an incredible, wonderful, joyous day.”

Niemi and DePrisco met through mutual friends and dated for about a year and a half before he proposed on Christmas Eve.

At their reception, guests were primed to party into the night, celebrating the newlyweds with dinner and — of course — dancing. The couple performed a dance that DePrisco’s sister, Deirdre, who is a professional ballroom dancer, choreographed.
“Albert was concerned about looking good in the dance, but he has natural rhythm, and is a great mover – much more so than he knows!” Niemi Swayze, a producer, said.

Niemi met Swayze back in 1970, when she was 14 and studying dance at an academy run by the “Dirty Dancing” star’s mother, Patsy.

“I went to New York for four years and danced with ballet companies, but I couldn’t stop thinking about Lisa and I couldn’t figure out why I kept going back to her,” Swayze, who was 20 when he met his future bride, told the Daily Mail in 2005, noting that they were friends for “a long time” before they were anything else.

“I don’t know what the key to a 30-year marriage is,” the actor, who would lose his battle with pancreatic cancer four years later, said. “I suppose it’s about keeping love alive, learning how to fall in love over and over again, not taking each other for granted, forgiveness, trust. Whatever it is, it works for us.”