Editing Sam Kinison (section)

==Personal life==
In May 1988, his youngest brother, Kevin, shot himself at the age of 28, which devastated Sam.<ref>[https://ew.com/article/1992/06/12/we-remember-sam-kinison/ We remember Sam Kinison | EW.com]</ref>

Kinison acquired much of his material from his first two marriages, to Patricia Adkins (1975–1980) and Terry Marze (1981–1989). He began a relationship with dancer Malika Souiri<!-- https://www.facebook.com/malika.borghese/ https://ny411.com/listing/malika-borghese --> toward the end of his marriage with Marze.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Souiri |first1=Sabrina |title=PTSD Awareness Podcast and Raw Story Telling |url=https://www.sabrinasouiri.com/ |website=Sabrina Souiri .com |access-date=31 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824102335/https://www.sabrinasouiri.com/ |archive-date=24 August 2018}}</ref><ref name="alamy/412239677">{{cite web |last1=Dominguez |first1=Ralph\ |title=Sam Kinison, sister Sabrina Kinison and wife Malika Souiri (right) attend the 17th Annual American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium |url=https://www.alamy.com/sam-kinison-sister-sabrina-kinson-and-wife-malika-souiri-right-attend-the-17th-annual-american-music-awards-on-january-22-1990-at-the-shrine-auditorium-in-los-angeles-california-credit-ralph-dominguezmediapunch-image412239677.html |website=alamy.com |access-date=31 October 2023 |location=Los Angeles, California |language=en |date=January 22, 1990}}</ref><ref name="lasvegasweekly/Kinison-Oral-History">
*{{cite news |last1=Seabaugh |first1=Julie |title=Oral history of Sam Kinison 1: AAAHHH! AAAHHH! |url=https://lasvegasweekly.com/news/archive/2007/may/09/aaahhh-aaahhh/ |access-date=31 October 2023 |work=Las Vegas Weekly |date=May 9, 2007}}
*{{cite news |last1=Seabaugh |first1=Julie |title=Oral history of Sam Kinison 2: Wild Ride |url=https://lasvegasweekly.com/news/archive/2007/apr/12/sam-kinisons-wild-ride/ |access-date=31 October 2023 |work=Las Vegas Weekly |quote=Sabrina Stephan (formerly Souiri), comic and Vegas native: Initially (sister Malika and I) were bored on tour, so I came up with a shtick to get us on the show. I go, "He has a water glass. Notice?" She goes, "Yeah, so?" I go, "We're Vegas performers. We can do this." So he reaches for his water glass and it's not there. He looks in the wings and me and Malika are dressed in these ridiculous costumes. I came out with the pitcher; she comes out with the glass. We did it all showy, like the Arabs do, you know, they pour the water high. And he's like, "Malika and Sabrina, ladies and gentlemen!" Then he's like, "That was just too funny. Let's keep doing it!" The costumes became more outrageous. |date=April 12, 2007}}</ref> In 1990, Souiri alleged she was raped by a man Kinison had hired as a bodyguard while Kinison was asleep in the house.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20118169,00.html |title=Sam Kinison's Girlfriend Claims That While the Comic Slept Off a Hard Night, She Was Being Raped by His Bodyguard |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |date=July 9, 1990 |access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> The bodyguard stated that the sex was consensual; the jury deadlocked in the subsequent trial, and the charges were later dropped.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-26-me-3274-story.html |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |title=Jury Deadlocks in Kinison Bodyguard's Rape Trial |date=October 26, 1990}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/e59fb1bd6ecdd5f940a7c1ca1a8ca18f |title=Charges Dropped Against Kinison's Former Bodyguard |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |date=February 8, 1991 |access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref> The incident inspired Kinison to try to go straight with Souiri and join an Alcoholics Anonymous chapter; by March 1990 he was saying to audiences that he was no longer getting high.

Kinison frequented rock shows and often hung out with musicians. In May 1991, Kinison got in a fight with guitarist [[Slash (musician)|Slash]] at a hotel after Slash missed a planned appearance at one of Kinison's shows. Slash stated that Kinison nearly "choked [him] to death" before Slash's bandmate [[Duff McKagan]] intervened. Slash and McKagan declined to press charges after the incident.<ref>[https://www.a-4-d.com/t4996-that-time-when-sam-kinison-choked-slash-and-duff-saved-his-life slash Duff sam]</ref>

On April 4, 1992, six days before his death, Kinison married Souiri at the Candlelight Chapel in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]].<ref name="pjs-called" /> They honeymooned in [[Hawaii]] for five days before returning home to [[Los Angeles]] on April 10 to prepare for a show that night at the [[Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino|Riverside Resort Hotel and Casino]] in [[Laughlin, Nevada]].<ref name="lat-shocked" />

Souiri sued Kinison's brother, Bill, in 1995 for allegedly defaming her in his book ''Brother Sam: The Short Spectacular Life of Sam Kinison''. Souiri sued Bill Kinison a second time in 2009, alleging he forged Sam's will but claiming she did not discover the fact until 2007.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Kinison-Widow-Sues-Brother-in-Law-Over-Book-3038143.php |title=Kinison Widow Sues Brother-in-Law Over Book |newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=April 7, 1995 |access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.tmz.com/2009/06/23/sam-kinisons-widow-cries-fraud/ |title=Sam Kinison's Widow Cries Fraud |date=June 23, 2009 |publisher=[[TMZ]]| access-date=January 12, 2018}}</ref>

In February 2011, the ''[[Toronto Sun]]'' reported that Kinison had fathered a child with the wife of his best friend and opening act, Carl LaBove, who had been paying child support for the girl for nearly 13 years. LaBove filed legal papers claiming the girl was Kinison's and [[Genetic testing|DNA tests]] taken from Kinison's brother Bill show a 99.8% likelihood that Kinison was the father of the unnamed woman.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/celebrities/2011/02/19/17337136-wenn-story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110224022207/http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/celebrities/2011/02/19/17337136-wenn-story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 24, 2011 |title=Kinison fathered lovechild, pal says &#124; Celebrities &#124; Entertainment |newspaper=[[Toronto Sun]] |date=February 19, 2011 |access-date=May 19, 2014}}</ref>