Lorenzo Lamas Past Loves: from Michele Cathy Smith to His Latest Public Romance
By Maya Lin-Takahashi
A persistent digital error continues to confuse entertainment archives. General web queries regarding Michele Cathy Smith often surface obituaries and investigative reports about Catherine Evelyn "Cathy" Smith, the Canadian backup singer and rock groupie who died in August 2020 at age 73. That Cathy Smith became infamous as the muse behind Gordon Lightfoot’s 1974 classic "Sundown" and later served fifteen months in prison after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter for administering the fatal speedball injection to comedian John Belushi at the Chateau Marmont in March 1982.
Michele Cathy Smith, the former wife of Lorenzo Lamas, bears no relationship or connection to that historical tragedy. While the Belushi incident unraveled in West Hollywood just as Lamas was launching his television career, Lorenzo’s wife Michele was building a young family away from the illicit rock demimonde.
Clarifying this distinction matters for historical accuracy. The confusion stems almost entirely from algorithmic indexing that conflated two women sharing similar names during the exact same decade in southern California. While Catherine Evelyn Smith lived out her post-prison years in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, until her death in 2020, Michele Cathy Smith chose quiet obscurity inside the United States, allowing her public identity to rest strictly on her shared parenthood with Lamas.
Maya is a hardware enthusiast who tests and reviews smart home devices, smartphones, wearables, and audio gear. She focuses on practical consumer value and build quality.
