Father is Ray Heatherton
In the 1960s her brother, Dick Heatherton, was a disk jockey on WPOP in Hartford, Connecticut.
Joey Heatherton was the Mystery Guest on the November 7, 1965, episode of "What's My Line?" (1950) Longtime panelist Dorothy Kilgallen, 52, was found dead just hours after the program aired live. Four years to the day after Dorothy's death, Joey appeared as a guest in a "Color Honeymooners" episode of "The Jackie Gleason Show" (1966) which originally aired November 8, 1969.
Joey's brother, Dick Heatherton, was a prominent radio disc jockey in New York, on CBS-FM in the 1970s and 1980s.
Measurements: 34-20-32 (at age 20 in 1965), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
She had a brief, basically unsuccessful recording career, with a minor hit covering Ferlin Husky's "Gone" in 1972.
Subject of Jill Sobule's song "Joey" (2004).
Was largely the basis for, and part namesake of, the "Lola Heatherton" character as played by Catherine O'Hara on "SCTV" (1976) and "SCTV Network" (1981).
Writing about a USO tour, Bob Hope described Joey and her costume as "nine feet of girl in four feet of leopard skin.".