Frank believed he should be paid millions for his work. “Frank said his wife, Joanne, died at … However, the real Frank Tassone had actually been married to a woman in real life, who he had met in college. "Frank Tassone was the first person I met in Roslyn," Makowsky told Vanity Fair at the … However, later he was found to be dating a man named Jason Daugherty. “There was … It was found that …
There were limits to how much Tassone would reveal about his private life. Moving on to his personal life, he was supposed to be married to a woman whose photo he used to keep on his tables and was dead but details are not available. “She had some kind of an illness. About six months later, he found himself visiting a gay bar. His wife, Joanne, whom he says he loved very much, passed away from cancer in 1973.
“Frank said his wife, Joanne, died at a very early age,” the teachers union president told Kolker. Details of his previous marriage are sprung upon his husband, Steven, during a police interrogation scene in order to drive home that Tassone is untrustworthy. The most he’d tell colleagues was that he’d been briefly married.