Stanley Love (born April 9, 1949) is an American former professional basketball player. He is the father of basketball player Kevin Love and the younger brother of Beach Boys singer Mike Love. During the late 1970s, Stan was also employed as a bodyguard, trainer, and assistant to band member Brian Wilson, the Loves' cousin.
Background
Love grew up in Baldwin Hills in West Los Angeles and was the fourth of six children to Milt, a union sheet metal worker, and Glee Love, a singer. His older brother is Mike Love. Mike, along with cousins Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, later formed the Beach Boys.[1]
Love was inducted into the University of Oregon Athletics Hall of Fame in 1994.
Caretaker to Brian Wilson
In the late 1970s, Love, alongside professional model Rocky Pamplin, was employed as a full-time "keeper" to Brian Wilson, in an effort to make Brian more productive for The Beach Boys, often by physical force. In 1982, Love and Pamplin were fined $750 and placed on six months' probation for a home invasion and assault on Dennis Wilson[6] In 1990, Love filed a petition to be appointed as Brian Wilson's conservator,[7] partly resulting in the court-ordered severing of personal and financial ties between Wilson and his therapist Eugene Landy in 1991.[8]