Leonardo DiCaprio is mourning the death of his beloved grandmother.

The Titanic star’s grandmother Helene Indenbirken passed away in a hospital in her native North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She was 93.

No date or cause of death has yet been confirmed.

The actor was said to be very close to Indenbirken, his mother Irmelin’s mum, and even brought her along with him to film premieres and movie sets.

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“Golden Girl” Estelle Getty has gone to the big lanai in the sky and died at the age of 84.

Estelle passed away at 5:35 AM this morning at her L.A. home surrounded by her family and caregivers. Getty had been suffering for years with Lewy Body Dementia.

Although only a year older than Bea Arthur, Estelle is best known for playing her wise-cracking Sicilian mother Sophia Petrillo on “Golden Girls.”

Getty is survived by her two adult sons.

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The mother of Aerosmith star Steven Tyler and grandmother of actress Liv Tyler has died. She was 84.

Susan Ray Tallarico passed away at a Nashua, New Hampshire retirement home on Monday. She is believed to have died of natural causes.

She is survived by her husband Victor Tallarico, her son Steven Tyler - born Steven Victor Tallarico - and his sister Lynda - as well as Tyler’s children Liv, 31, Mia, 29, Chelsea, 19, and Taj, 17.

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Christina Applegate’s on-again, off-again boyfriend Lee Grivas was found dead in his Hollywood apartment Tuesday, TMZ.com reports.

“I am profoundly saddened,” Applegate said in a statement to Usmagazine.com. “Lee was an incredible human being who was an extremely important and beautiful part of my life.

“He is missed beyond words,” she added. “He touched so many and I feel much sadness for his mother, father, brother, and all of his family and friends.”

The 26-year-old’s body was discovered by a neighbor and there were no visible signs of trauma, according to TMZ.

“Christina really loved him,” a source close to the situation told Us. “He was a really nice guy but also very sad.”

The Samantha Who? star, 36, and Grivas were not dating at the time of his death, the source told Us.

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Despite his gruff stage persona, offstage the late George Carlin was a gentleman who showed kindness to strangers and offered a hand to others hoping to beat addiction problems, Tom Arnold and other comics tell People – while Jerry Seinfeld and Joan Rivers are expressing their appreciation of their unsentimental friend.

“Several times he’d call young comics who were messed up on drugs, and just introduce himself as ‘George, a recovering addict, and why don’t you go to a meeting with me or we can get together and talk,’ ” says Arnold, 49, who’s also battled with drugs and alcohol. “And it blew them away. Nobody said no.”

Arnold and those other comics who worked alongside Carlin over the decades made their remarks Monday night at Hollywood’s the Laugh Factory, during a taping of Supreme Court of Comedy. Carlin, 71, died of heart failure Sunday.

“He was a real gentleman, a great guy and a much better person than he pretended to be,” says comic Dom Irrera.

Several comedy figures, including Ben Stiller and Jay Leno, have publicly cited Carlin’s influence on humor. On Tuesday, Jerry Seinfeld, in an op-ed piece in The New York Times, notes that Carlin’s authority could also be a stumbling block to others in the field.

“I couldn’t even count the number of times I’ve been standing around with some comedians and someone talks about some idea for a joke and another comedian would say, ‘Carlin does it,’ ” Seinfeld writes in his appreciation. “I’ve heard it my whole career: ‘Carlin does it,’ ‘Carlin already did it,’ ‘Carlin did it eight years ago.’ ”

Still, went the sentiment at the Laugh Factory, Carlin for many years served as a mentor to young comics mesmerized by his wit and mastery of the language, said those who gathered. He also was keenly aware of his own limits.

Comic Paul Rodriguez recalled running into Carlin at a sushi bar two years ago, following Carlin’s stint in rehab for a Vicodin-and-wine habit.

“He said, ‘I have a lot of work to do, I have to go back and hear all the s— that I wrote [under the influence] and see if I meant any of it,’ ” Rodriguez remembered.

Several others recalled Carlin’s taste for marijuana. Recounted comic Paul Mooney: “Richard Pryor would say: ‘He’s a big pothead, but he’s a very funny white boy.’ And I know he and Richard are up in heaven now, talking and smoking a blunt.”

Joan Rivers, writing in Tuesday’s New York Post, may not agree with that last statement.

“He wasn’t sentimental,” she writes. (Seinfeld flat out states, “George didn’t believe in heaven or hell. Like death, they were just more comedy premises.”)

“But don’t kid yourself,” adds Rivers, “he would have loved all the attention he’s getting right now. Just don’t say that he ‘passed away.’ ‘Passed to where?’ he would ask.”

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In sad news out of Hollywood, legendary comedian, actor and author George Carlin succumbed to heart failure on Sunday, passing away at the age of 71.

According to Reuters news service, Carlin died early Sunday evening at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., where he’d been admitted earlier in the day after experiencing pains in his chest.

With his edgy, often profane, rants about everything from drugs to sex to politics to… well, “stuff,” the one-time Air Force enlistee rose to prominence in the ’60s and quickly became one of the country’s best-known, and in some circles most-reviled, performers. Perhaps his most famous routine, “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television,” ended up being at the core of a 1978 US Supreme Court case against one radio outlet that dared to broadcast it.

From marijuana to cocaine to wine and painkillers, Carlin made no attempt to hide his life-long love-hate battle with substance abuse and alcohol, often discussing these topics at length to sold-out audiences around the country, or on any of his 14 highly-rated HBO specials. In 2004, he entered rehab to deal with an addiction to vicodin.

“No one told me I needed this,” he said at the time. “I recognized the problem and took the step myself.”

In addition to his work as a comedian, Carlin was also an accomplished and versatile actor, appearing in such varied fare as Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and The Prince of Tides. Most recently, he had given voice to Fillmore, the VW bus in the animated Pixar film Cars.

He was also the author of numerous humor books, including Brain Droppings, Napalm & Silly Putty and most recently When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

Carlin, who lost his first wife Brenda to cancer in 1997, is survived by second wife Sally Wade and daughter Kelly Carlin McCall.

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Rock and roll pioneer Bo Diddley died at his home in Archer, FL Monday. He was 79.

The cause of death was heart failure, his spokesperson said.

Diddley was recovering from a stroke in 2007 that affected his ability to speak.

The musician gained prominence in the 1950s with a self-titled single and a trademark, homemade square guitar.

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