Janine Girardi, Eddie Rabbitt’s wife

Janine Girardi is the wife of Eddie Rabbitt. Janine’s husband, Rabbitt was an American country music singer and songwriter. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as “Kentucky Rain” for Elvis Presley in 1970 and “Pure Love” for Ronnie Milsap in 1974.

Later in the 1970s, Rabbitt helped to develop the crossover-influenced sound of country music prevalent in the 1980s with such hits as “Suspicions”, “I Love a Rainy Night” (a number-one hit single on the Billboard Hot 100), and “Every Which Way but Loose” (the theme from the film of the same title). His duets “Both to Each Other (Friends and Lovers)” with Juice Newton and “You and I” with Crystal Gayle later appeared on the soap operas Days of Our Lives and All My Children.

How did Janine Girardi and Rabbitt meet? Much information has not been disclosed about how the two loved birds meet. Rabbitt was said to be so much in love with his wife, Girardi. Her husband used to call her “a little thing about five feet tall, with long, black beautiful hair, and a real pretty face.”. He had previously written the songs “Pure Love” and “Sweet Janine” for her.

In 1976, Rabbitt married Janine Girardi in a beautiful ceremony in the presence of their friends, family, and loved ones. Their beautiful marriage was blessed with three children. Their three children are, Demelza, Timmy, and Tommy.

Janine Girardi’s son Timmy was diagnosed with biliary atresia upon birth. The condition required a liver transplant for survival and he underwent one in 1985, but the attempt failed and he died.

“But I needed to be with Janine then,” her husband says. “She needed a lot of support, as I did. Her husband, Rabbitt temporarily put his career on hiatus, also saying, “I didn’t want to be out of the music business, but where I was more important.” Tommy was born in 1986.

Janine Girardi’s husband, Rabbitt, a longtime smoker, died on May 7, 1998, in Nashville from lung cancer at the age of 56. He had been diagnosed with the disease in March 1997 and had received radiation treatment and surgery to remove part of one lung. His body was interred at Calvary Cemetery in Nashville on May 8, 1998.

No media outlets reported Girardi’s husband’s death until after the burial at the family’s request. The news came as a surprise to many in Nashville, including the performer’s agent, who “had no idea Eddie was terminal” and had talked to him often, remarking that Rabbitt “was always upbeat and cheerful” in the final months of his life. Although he was widely believed to have been born in 1944 (this year can still be found in older publications and texts), at the time of his death, he was revealed to have been born in 1941.

Much was not heard from Janine Girardi after the death of her beloved husband.