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Lisa de Cazotte, an Emmy Award-winning daytime television producer died Saturday, December 7, after a long illness, Deadline has learned. She was 58. Born Lisa Smith in Westchester, New York in 1961, she graduated from Fordham University and began her television career as an intern on ABC's One Life to Live. She…

Juice WRLD, a young rapper from Chicago who was just starting to make his mark in the music industry, died Sunday at age 21. The hip-hop star, real name Jarad Anthony Higgins, had recently signed with Interscope Records. He released his album "Death Race for Love" in March 2019, which made it to No. 1 on the Billboard…

Vojtech Jasny, an award-winning director from Czechoslovakia who made more than 50 films, has died. He was 93. Jasny passed away Friday, according to The Associated Press. The director was best known for his 1968 film, All My Good Countrymen [also known as All My Compatriots], about the lives and struggles of Czechs…

Virginia Leith, a model and actress who starred in Stanley Kubrick's debut feature Fear and Desire, has died. She was 94. She passed away in Palm Springs on November 4 after a brief illness, according to family spokesperson Jane Chalmers. Leith met Kubrick when he was a photographer and shot her for the cover of Look…

UPDATED Sunday AM: Star Rachel Brosnahan and the team behind The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel paid tribute to Brian Tarantina Saturday, following news of the actor’s death at age 60. Tarantina played Jackie, the emcee at the Gaslight comedy club where Midge performs, on the popular Amazon series. In January, he took the…

Brian Tarantina, a veteran actor who appeared on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, was found dead early Saturday morning at his apartment in New York City. He was 60. The New York Police Department confirmed to Deadline that officers found Tarantina unresponsive on his couch at 12:40 a.m. His cause of death is under…

Rudy Boesch, a retired U.S. Navy SEAL who was one of the first contestants to appear on Survivor, has died after battling Alzheimer's disease, People reported Saturday. He was 91. Boesch was 72 when he competed on the long-running CBS reality series in 2000. He joined the show's first alliance, creating lasting…

John Witherspoon, an actor-comedian who for decades made audiences laugh in TV shows and films, including the Friday feature franchise and the WB’s The Wayans Bros. , died suddenly at his home today. He was 77. “It is with deepest sorrow that we can confirm our beloved husband and father, John Witherspoon, one of the…

John "Jack" Shelton Clarke, who won over fans with his portrayal of “Mickey Horton” on Days of Our Lives, has died. He was 88. Clarke passed away from complications of pneumonia on October 16, in Laguna Beach, a representative for the actor told Deadline Monday. Clarke previously suffered a stroke in 2007 and had been…

Hogan Sheffer, an Emmy Award-winning daytime television writer known for his comical one-liners, died in his hometown of York, Pennsylvania on September 28. He was 61. Sheffer went into cardiac arrest in 2014, and suffered a series of health problems up until his death last week from heart failure. The veteran…

José José, an iconic Mexican performer known for his songs about love and loneliness, died Saturday after battling cancer. He was 71. Popularly called “El Príncipe de la Canción” or “The Prince of Song,” José José died at a hospital in Miami, his assistant told the Los Angeles Times. In 2017, the singer revealed he…

Sander Vanocur, a network news correspondent who covered presidential elections, the White House and the Falkland Islands War, has died. He was 91. Vanocur passed away Monday night in a hospice facility in Santa Barbara, California of complications from dementia, his son, Chris Vanocur, told The Associated Press. The…