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David Koch, a libertarian supporter of many conservative causes who reshaped America’s political landscape and also funded many charities, has died at age 79. His brother, Charles Koch, confirmed the news in a statement Friday. "It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my brother David,” he said…

Jack Whitaker, a sportscaster for CBS and ABC who called Super Bowl I and Secretariat’s Triple Crown triumph, has died. He passed Sunday morning in his sleep in Devon, Pennsylvania of natural causes at age 95. Starting his career in the late 1950s at Philadelphia’s WCAU-TV after graduating from St. Joseph’s…

Richard Williams, an Academy Award-winning animator best known for his work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, has died. He passed at his home in Bristol, UK on Friday at age 86. A triple Oscar and triple BAFTA winner, Williams also did two of the Pink Panther films and Casino Royale. His first film, The Little Island, was…

Veteran WVUE-TV news reporter and anchor Nancy Parker was killed in a small plane crash this afternoon at Lakefront Airport in New Orleans. She was 53. Parker and the as-yet unidentified pilot of the small plane died in the crash, but officials couldn’t say yet what caused the accident. Her death was confirmed by the…

Patricia Louisiana Knop, a film screenwriter and television producer known for 9 1/2 Weeks, Wild Orchid and the Showtime series Red Shoe Diaries, died at age 78 on Aug. 7 in Santa Monica, Calif. from what her publicist said was a lengthy illness. She was married for 46 years to producer/director Zalman King, who…

Writer-director-actor Peter Fonda, who died Friday at age 79, had instant success with the 1969 film Easy Rider, about two freewheeling motorcyclists at the forefront of the American counterculture. The movie was the third highest-grossing that year and earned Fonda an Oscar nom for the screenplay he wrote with Dennis…

Peter Fonda, who died Friday at age 79, was a member of a Hollywood royal family that included father Henry Fonda, sister Jane Fonda and his daughter Bridget Fonda. He also might have, along with Dennis Hopper, launched an entire Hollywood industry with their 1969 film Easy Rider, considered by many to mark the birth…

Jane Fonda, sister of Peter Fonda, has released a statement following his death today at the age of 79. "I am very sad. He was my sweet-hearted baby brother,” Fonda said in the statement provided to Deadline. “The talker of the family. I have had beautiful alone time with him these last days. He went out…

Peter Fonda, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his work in the groundbreaking Easy Rider, which he co-wrote, produced, and co-starred in, has died at age 79. The son of Hollywood legend Henry Fonda, brother of actress Jane Fonda, and father of actress Bridget Fonda, his death was confirmed by his publicist. “It…

UPDATED with attorney general statement: Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead of an apparent suicide in his New York jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, the medical examiner’s office in Manhattan confirmed to Deadline. An FBI investigations of his death is underway. Attorney…

The husband of the late reality TV star Miriam Rivera has told an Australian news outlet that he disputes suicide as the cause of her death in February. Rivera, the transgender model and star of Endemol’s controversial 2004 British dating show There’s Something About Miriam, died February 5 in Mexico, but her death…

Robert "Bob" Ullman, a longtime Broadway and Off Broadway press agent whose career spanned Ethel Merman, A Chorus Line, Curse of the Starving Class and many others, died of cardiac arrest on July 31 in Bayshore, Long Island, New York. He was 97. His death was announced by longtime friend (and former Broadway press…