Laurence K. Avanzino: Biography, Family and Life Story0

• Celebrities
• November 7, 2026

Laurence K. Avanzino was an American man best known as the biological father of television personality and socialite Kathy Hilton. Although he never became a celebrity himself, his family connection makes him an interesting part of the Hilton and Richards family history. Laurence married Kathleen Dugan, later known as Kathleen Richards or Big Kathy, in