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Actress Joan Benedict, who worked successful TV and connected shape complete nan people of decades, has died astatine nan property of 96.
Benedict passed distant astatine Cedars-Sinai Medical Center successful Los Angeles connected June 24 owed to complications she suffered aft a stroke, a spokesperson for nan family of nan precocious character confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter connected Monday.
Among nan astir high-profile projects Benedict worked connected included Candid Camera, nan original Steve Allen Show and soaps specified arsenic General Hospital and Days of Our Lives, and a shape show successful which she played precocious hotelier Leona Helmsley.
Benedict had been successful a number of high-profile Hollywood relationships. She was wed to How to Succeed successful Business Without Really Trying character John Myhers from 1962 until he died of pneumonia successful May of 1992.
Benedict was besides wed to Academy Award victor Rod Steiger from 2000 done July of 2002, erstwhile he died arsenic consequence of pneumonia and kidney failure.
Actress Joan Benedict, who worked successful TV and connected nan shape complete nan people of decades, has died astatine nan property of 96. Pictured successful 2017 successful LA
Benedict passed distant astatine Cedars-Sinai Medical Center successful Los Angeles connected June 24 owed to complications she suffered aft a stroke. Pictured successful 2013 successful Hollywood, California
She was besides romantically progressive pinch One Life to Live character Jeremy Slate until his 2006 passing astatine nan property of 80 from esophageal cancer.
Benedict told Women Fitness successful September of 2016, 'Both of my husbands, and my life partner, Jeremy, were awesome men who respected maine arsenic an actress.
'They each died from different forms of cancer, truthful my memories are sometimes bittersweet, but pinch nary regrets.'
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