After the news of Farrah Fawcett’s death, fans around the world are expressing their grief over losing the actress to cancer. And now her ex-husband, actor Lee Majors, is adding his voice to the others mourning her passing at age 62.

“My wife Faith and I were saddened to hear of Farrah’s passing,” Lee tells Entertainment Tonight. “She fought a tremendous battle against a terrible disease. She was an angel on earth and now an angel forever.”

Farrah and Lee were married in 1972, before separating in 1979. They were formally divorced in 1982, and Farrah went on to become involved with the love of her life, Ryan O’Neal.

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Ed McMahon died early this morning, his rep has announced. He was 86.

The former sidekick to Johnny Carson passed away peacefully at Ronald Reagan/UCLA Medical Center shortly after midnight, his publicist, Howard Bragman, told CNN.

McMahon — who was battling cancer, and was hospitalized for pneumonia in January — had been suffered health problems in recent years. He broke his neck in a 2007 fall. In 2002, he sued several insurance companies and contractors over mold in his mansion and won a $7 million settlement.

Although he was paid around $1 million a year as Carson’s sidekick, according to published reports, and he hosted a variety of shows — including Star Search — he faced financial problems last year.

He fought foreclosure on his multi-million Beverly Hills home after falling $644,000 behind on his $4.8-million mortgage.

“If you spend more money than you make, you know what happens. And it can happen. You know, a couple of divorces thrown in, a few things like that,” McMahon told Larry King.

He is survived by his wife, Pamela, and five children. McMahon’s sixth child, Michael, died in 1995.

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Legendary Las Vegas performer Danny Gans’ cause of death has been ruled an accidental overdose of pain medication.

The Clark County Coroner said Danny officially died from hydromorphone toxicity due to chronic pain syndrome — and that he also suffered from high blood pressure and a red blood cell disorder.

Danny died on May 1 at his home after a family member called 911 to say he was having trouble breathing. By the time paramedics arrived, it was too late.

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The FBI has offered its assistance to Thai authorities investigating Thursday’s death of actor David Carradine, agency officials tell PEOPLE.

After Carradine’s half-brother, Keith Carradine, met Friday with FBI officials in Los Angeles, those officials contacted the FBI’s legal attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok “to determine if the Thai authorities are requesting or would welcome FBI assistance in this matter,” FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimilller tells PEOPLE. She adds there is no word yet as to whether Thai authorities will invite the FBI to join their investigation.

The FBI has no jurisdiction in other countries, but occasionally offers assistance investigating the deaths of Americans when foul play is suspected or when the family requests such intervention.

Keith Carradine, 59, “wants authorities to investigate his brother’s death, and to determine if anyone else was involved,” says Keith Carradine’s attorney, Mark Geragos, who arranged Friday’s meeting with the FBI.

Geragos tells PEOPLE that Keith and other family members are finding the grieving process even more difficult because they keep getting conflicting details regarding the condition of Carradine’s body when it was discovered. (more…)

David Carradine’s death continues to get more mysterious.

On Friday, Thai police said that the 72-year-old actor’s body was found in a luxury hotel room closet with a rope tied to his neck and genitals.

They added that his death may have been caused by accidental suffocation.

“The two ropes were tied together,” Police Lt. Gen. Worapong Chewprecha said. “It is unclear whether he committed suicide or not or he died of suffocation or heart failure.”

Results from Friday’s autopsy will not be ready for at least three weeks because the cause of death remains unclear.

Police initially said they suspected Carradine, best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine on the 1970s TV series Kung Fu, had committed suicide, despite the actor’s close friends and family’s strong denials. (He had been in Thailand shooting a movie, Stretch.)

“All we can say is, we know David would never have committed suicide,” Tiffany Smith — of Binder & Associates, his management company — told the Associated Press. “We’re just waiting for them to finish the investigation and find out what really happened. He really appreciated everything life has to give … and that’s not something David would ever do to himself.”

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“Kung Fu” and “Kill Bill” star David Carradine was found hung in a closet in a hotel room in Bangkok on Wednesday, Thai police said.

Police believed he committed suicide.

Carradine, 72, was in Bangkok to shoot a movie and stayed at a Suite Room 352 of the Park Nai Lert Hotel on Wireless Road since June 2.

The film crew were aware of his absence when they went to dine out at a restaurant on Sathorn Road on June 3.

Carradine did not show up at the dinner and the team could not reach him. They assumed that he took a rest because of his age.

It was a hotel’s maid who opened his suite on Thursday at 10 am only to find Carradine in a closet. He was described as being half naked.

Police investigation showed that he hung himself with a rope, the kind that is used with curtains.

Police said he was dead for not less than 12 hours and found no sign of fighting and assault.

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Aside from Quentin Tarantino’s two part “Kill Bill” in 2003/04, Carradine was perhaps best known for his role as the fugitive half Chinese Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s eastern/western TV drama “Kung Fu”. He also starred in Martin Scorsese’s “Boxcar Bertha” in 1972, portrayed folksinger Woody Guthrie in “Bound for Glory” in 1976, acted in Ingmar Bergman’s “The Serpent’s Egg” in 1977 and costarred with half brothers Keith Carradine and Robert Carradine in the 1980 western “The Long Riders”.

His father was the noted actor John Carradine.

In Thai cinemas, Carradine was recently seen as a martial arts guru in the Rob Schneider comedy “Big Stan” and as a perverted elderly Chinese mobster in “Crank: High Voltage” starring Jason Statham.

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The 4-year-old daughter of boxing legend Mike Tyson died Tuesday, a day after she was injured in a treadmill accident at her home, police in Phoenix, Arizona, said.

Exodus Tyson was prounounced dead at 11:45 a.m. local time Tuesday, said Sgt. Andy Hill, a Phoenix police spokesman. He gave no other details.

The girl was found by her 7-year-old brother on a treadmill in the Phoenix home Monday “with her neck on … a cable” attached to the machine, police said in an earlier statement.

The mother “took her daughter off the cable” and called authorities, and Exodus was taken to a hospital, according to police.

Former world heavyweight champion Tyson traveled from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Phoenix where his daughter was on life support in critical condition on Monday, police said.

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