"Charlie's Angels" Actress Farrah Fawcett Dies at 62
Friday, June 26, 2009
Actress Farrah Fawcett, whose layered blonde mane and ubiquitous swimsuit poster transformed the once-unknown "Charlie's Angels" star into a '70s icon, died Thursday. She was 62.
Fawcett - who waged a three-year battle against anal cancer - died shortly before 9:30 a.m. in a Santa Monica, Calif., hospital, said her spokesman, Paul Bloch.
The Texas-born actress chronicled her valiant fight for survival in a two-hour documentary. Her longtime love, actor Ryan O'Neal, was at her bedside with Fawcett's 91-year-old father, friend Alana Stewart, hairdresser Mela Murphy and doctor Lawrence Piro when the sex symbol passed away.
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