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===Other ventures===
Gibbs owned a jazz club in [[South Central L.A.]] called Marla's Memory Lane Jazz and Supper Club from 1981 to 1999. As a singer, she released a number of albums.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Butler |first1=Bethonie |title=Why Marla Gibbs of ‘Scandal’ and ‘The Jeffersons’ won’t tell you her age |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2015/03/12/why-marla-gibbs-of-scandal-and-the-jeffersons-wont-tell-you-her-age/ |access-date=15 January 2023 |work=Washington Post |date=12 March 2015}}</ref>{{citation needed|date=June 2017}} In 1990, she moved her Crossroads Arts Academy and Theatre into the former [[Vision Theatre|Leimert Theatre]] in Los Angeles.<ref name="ambitious">{{cite news |last1=Shirley |first1=Don |title=Ambitious Plans for Marla Gibbs' Crossroads Facility : Theater: The TV star moves her Crossroads Academy to a new home and launches a fund-raising drive. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-21-ca-553-story.html |access-date=15 November 2021 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=21 June 1990}}</ref> Plans included the construction of a second stage, but the project ended in debt in June 1997.<ref name="ambitious"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Gibb's theatrical vision sinks under pile of debt |url=https://www.deseret.com/1997/8/22/19329758/gibb-s-theatrical-vision-sinks-under-pile-of-debt |access-date=15 November 2021 |work=Deseret News |date=22 August 1997}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Gibbs has been married once and had three children. Gibbs was married to her high school sweetheart Jordan Gibbs from 1955 to 1973; the couple had three children:<ref name=yahoo>{{cite web|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/person/marla-gibbs/biography.html|title=Marla Gibbs|work=Yahoo Movies|access-date=28 November 2014}}</ref> Angela, Dorian and Joseph. Her older sister is the late actress [[Susie Garrett]], who played Cherie's grandmother Betty Johnson on the NBC series ''[[Punky Brewster]]''. Her daughter Angela, also an actress, appeared on the TV show ''Sanford and Son'' and films such as ''[[Together Brothers]]'', ''[[Drumline (film)|Drumline]]'' and ''[[Think Like A Man Too]]''. On July 31, 2014, Gibbs attended the [[Leimert Park, Los Angeles|Leimert Park]] Village Book Fair in [[Los Angeles, California]], to pay tribute to [[Maya Angelou]], who died on May 28, and [[Ruby Dee]], who died on June 11.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://flcourier.com/2014/07/31/l-a-book-fair-to-honor-maya-angelou-ruby-dee|title=L.A. Book fair to honor Maya Angelou, Ruby Dee | Florida Courier|access-date=2014-12-02|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101214101/http://flcourier.com/2014/07/31/l-a-book-fair-to-honor-maya-angelou-ruby-dee|archive-date=January 1, 2015}}</ref> On January 11, 2016, Gibbs and former ''227'' co-star, [[Jackée Harry]], attended the funeral of Grammy Award-winning singer [[Natalie Cole]] at the [[West Angeles Church of God in Christ]] in [[Los Angeles, California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-chaka-khan-natalie-cole-funeral-20160110-story.html|title=La Me Ln Chaka Khan Natalie Cole Funeral|work=Los Angeles Times|date=January 11, 2016|access-date=February 18, 2016}}</ref> Gibbs co-starred opposite Cole in the television film ''Lily in Winter''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lily In Winter (TV Movie 1994) |url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0110354/ |website=IMDb.com |publisher=IMDb, Inc. |access-date=18 November 2021}}</ref>
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