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The wife of actor Christian Oliver has spoken for the first time in the aftermath of the plane crash on Thursday that claimed her husband and two daughters. A statement “from Jessica Klepser and family” was posted on Wundabar Pilates’ page by Amy Jordan, the company’s owner. Klepser, who was married…

Joseph Lelyveld, who won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for his book, Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, and was a former executive editor and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, died on Friday at his Manhattan home. He was 86 and succumbed to complications of…

Christian Oliver (real name Christian Klepser), who starred in films including Speed Racer and Valkyrie among others, was killed Thursday along with his two young daughters when their small plane crashed into the sea off a Caribbean island. The owner and pilot of the plane, identified as Robert Sachs…

Harry Johnson, an actor with scores of credits spanning 40 years that ranged from the original Battlestar Galactica to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, several Dick Wolf series and the famous “Harry & Louise” commercials, died January 2 of in Los Angeles after a long illness. He was 81. His wife…

Nick Carter has broken his public silence on the Dec. 23 death of his sister, Bobbie Jean Carter. “It may take a lifetime to fully process the loss my family has endured over the years – most recently, with the sudden passing of our sister Bobbie Jean,” he wrote today on Instagram. “I am completely…

Glynis Johns, remembered by movie audiences as Mrs. Banks from Mary Poppins and by Broadway devotees as the first person to sing Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns” on a national stage, died Thursday of natural causes at an assisted living home in Los Angeles. She was 100. Her death was announced…

Ernst Goldschmidt, the sales agent who co-founded Orion Pictures and oversaw distribution of some of last century’s biggest movies, died last month from heart failure in his hometown of Badenweller in Germany. He was 92. The respected exec’s December 2 death was announced by his…

Janet (Langner) DeLorenzo, who worked in daily syndicated television for more than 30 years, died on December 30. DeLorenzo was 63 and no cause or location was given DeLorenzo started her career as an intern in the early days of The Oprah Winfrey Show at ABC affiliate WLS in Chicago. One of the…

Herman Raucher, whose Oscar-nominated Summer of ’42 screenplay became one of Hollywood’s best-loved coming-of-age tales, has died of natural causes at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, CT. He was 95. His December 28 death was announced by daughter Jenny Raucher, who was by his side when he…

Mickey Cottrell, the PR executive who specialized in the indie film business and worked both as an actor and a producer, died on New Year’s Day at the Motion Picture & Television Fund in Woodland Hills. He was 79. His death was confirmed by his sister, Suzie Cottrell-Smith, who told Deadline he…

Actor-producer Keisha Nash Whitaker, ex-wife of actor Forest Whitaker, died from alcohol-related liver disease, according to her death certificate obtained by TMZ. The death certificate also reveals Nash Whitaker suffered from acute renal failure, a symptom of anorexia, a significant contributing…

Herman (Hy) Levine, who had a nearly 50-year career in the film industry and worked with Lew Wasserman, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dick Cook, and many other prominent executives, has died at 87. Levine died Dec. 27 in Rockville, MD, following a short battle with pancreatic cancer, according to his son…