After The Jeffersons became a huge success, Isabel Sanford moved on up to her very own $200,000 LA condo “in the sky” and capitalized off of her TV fame by opening up the exact same type of business that earned “Weezy” and “George Jefferson” that high rise Manhattan condo and plush lifestyle on the show- she owned a dry-cleaning business. And get this – the name of it was “Weezy’s!” Smart move, right? Isabel’s marketing skills and business sense were on point.
Her son, Sanford K. Sanford, ran “Weezy’s Dry Cleaning” and Isabel sat back, invested and collected those checks. Word on the Old School curb is that business was booming for Sanford and her family back then.

Here are a few more facts many didn’t know about Isabel Sanford:
1. She married her husband, William Edward “Sonny” Richmond, at a young age and they had a really rocky relationship and separated soon after their three children were born. Here’s what was reported in an interview she did with People Magazine:

Marriage to a house painter shortly after high school graduation resulted in three children in quick succession, Pamela, Eric and Sanford—”I felt like an assembly line”—and a separation after only a few years. “The children didn’t…

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