Patti Heid: Where Is Cheech Marin’s Ex-wife Now?

Patti Heid is an artist and the ex-wife of Cheech Marin who is a Mexican-American comedian, actor, musician, and activist. Patti’s ex-husband Cheech Marin is best known as one-half of the comedy duo, Cheech and Chong. Cheech whose real name is Richard Anthony Marin is widely acknowledged as a cultural icon. He has appeared in several notable films and television series.

Patti Heid: Bio Summary

Who Is Cheech Marin’s Ex-wife, Patti Heid?

Patti Heid is the second and former wife of Richard Anthony “Cheech” Marin. Patti is said to have been born in the year 1952 to Joseph Henry Heid and Dolores Schulze. Her full date of birth is unavailable. She has not disclosed much information about her early life. Details of her siblings, and other relatives are unavailable. She is an artist.

Patti Heid became Cheech Marin’s wife on April 1, 1986, but they divorced in 2009. They have two children. Their son Joey Dee Marin was born on July 22, 1985. He is a stand-up comedian, actor, writer and activist. Their daughter is called Jasmine Marin. Patti doesn’t want to stay behind the “art world shield.”

Patti Heid wants to do more than just create art to please her own abstract imaginings. Her goal now, she says, is to “change the world.” According to Patti, “Everything changed once I had Joey.” Her son Joey is said to have developed a potentially fatal syndrome soon after his birth. He needed constant monitoring for years but he became healthy at age 5.

“I started caring about life and what happens to him,” Patti Heid said. “Before, my work was much more abstract, more Dadaist. But as a mother, when I saw all the things going on out there, I was horrified, and I wanted to do something about it. I’m shocked at what has happened; we can’t save our planet anymore.”

Previously, Patti Heid’s works were much more commercial, such as her 1984 series of Olympics-inspired paintings, which were satirical but had a slick quality. She has now set out to “make my minor statement and my own contribution toward changing the world.” That statement is through a new body of work, “Media Sedation,” which took her two years to complete.

The show, which went on view at Santa Monica’s Brendan Walter Gallery, was her first since her son Joey’s birth. “Media Sedation” is comprised of 18 paintings of political and violent images derived from those seen nightly on TV newscasts. Examples include “Imelda Praying,” which shows Imelda Marcos praying next to a pair of leopard-skinned shoes formed into a cross; “No Reasonable Offer,” which depicts a smiling Ronald Reagan, and “Geraldo: His Own Story.”

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Patti Heid takes real video images and enlarges and mutates them with a computer to create her pieces. She airbrushes the images with acrylic on canvas to get a video-screen look, then adds heavy brush strokes, streaks and thick paint to “incorporate more Angst “ into her colorful works.

“Maybe I can’t really change the world, but I feel I’m making a little bit of difference,” she said. “There’s so many things going on out there that are so horrifying they just tear me apart. So I’m trying to do my part to change that.”

What Happened To Cheech Marin’s Ex-wife, Patti Heid?

Patti Heid has claimed that she suffered abuse during her marriage to Cheech Marin. According to TMZ, Patti filed a restraining order against Cheech after he allegedly screamed at her, “F**k you, bitch” … and she claims there was plenty of violence before the incident. Patti disclosed that she and Cheech had worked out a deal for transferring property but she decided not to sign.

Patti Heid said Cheech Marin screamed, “F**k you, bitch. I’m taking you to court,” then followed her onto her property. Patti has claimed in the documents that Cheech “fractured my cheek, blackened my eye and violently choked me causing severe bruising on my neck and neck pain … numbing of my arms and hands.” She accused Cheech of choking their son.

However, the judge “rejected her claim for an immediate, temporary restraining order and set the matter for a hearing in two weeks,” per TMZ. After Patti Heid and Cheech Marin got divorced, Cheech married his longtime girlfriend, Russian pianist Natasha Marin. Cheech and Natasha have been married since August 8, 2009. Cheech was previously married to Darlene Morley.

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Where Is Cheech Marin’s Ex-wife Now?

Patti Heid’s whereabouts remain unknown. She has stayed out of the public eye. It is unknown if she is still alive or not. However, there hasn’t been any news of her death. She might be alive but just doesn’t want to be in the spotlight.