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Martin Short’s wife, actress Nancy Dolman has died. She passed away in their home in Pacific Palisades, CA. Nancy, 58, reportedly had been battling cancer since 2007.
The couple had been married for 30 years, and had three children together: Katherine, 26, Oliver, 24, and Henry, 21.
The doctor who famously gave Heidi Montag 1o plastic surgeries in one day died in a car accident yesterday afternoon. Dr. Frank Ryan, 50, is a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who has worked on celebs like Vince Neil, Adrianne Curry and Shauna Sand. He was killed yesterday when his Jeep went off the side of the Pacific Coast Highway and crashed into some rocks.
“Lifeguards initially tried to help Ryan, to no avail,” TMZ writes. Ryan was trapped in the vehicle with major head injuries; he died at the scene.
Before the accident, Ryan had been hiking near Malibu with his Border Collie, Jill, and shared a photo on Twitter.
Ryan wrote the following message on Twitter hours before his death:
Just for reference…he’s the doctor responsible for THIS!
What are the odds?
TMZ is reporting that Simon Monjack died from acute pneumonia and severe anemia.
The L.A. County Coroner found prescription medications in Simon’s blood stream but not enough to be lethal.
Ironically, Brittany died 5 months earlier of pneumonia, anemia and multiple drug intoxication.
We’ve learned Simon’s family in England was advised of his cause of death earlier this morning by the L.A. County Coroner’s Office.
Autopsy results show the bassist for heavy metal band Slipknot died of an accidental overdose of morphine and fentanyl, a synthetic morphine substitute, police said Monday.
Paul Gray, 38, was found dead in a suburban Des Moines hotel room on May 25. A hotel worker told a 911 dispatcher that a hypodermic needle was found near Gray’s body and that pills also were found in the room.
The autopsy shows he died of an overdose, Urbandale police said in a news release. They also said the autopsy revealed signs of significant heart disease.
Gary Coleman will not be buried this weekend as originally planned, as his ex-wife Shannon Price is fighting with his estranged parents about the location of his burial, TMZ reports. Coleman died Friday at age 42 in a Utah hospital following a fall that resulted in a brain hemorrhage, and the TV star’s parents are seeking custody of his body and want it returned to the star’s boyhood home in Illinois, his former manager, Victor Perillo, told the Associate Press on Thursday.
Perillo said Coleman’s parents, Sue and Willie Coleman, are the legal custodians of his body because Coleman and Price divorced in 2008. But a rep for Gary’s ex-wife claims Price is the executor of the actor’s will and has the power to make all decisions regarding the funeral and his estate.
“The Colemans don’t want to fight with anyone,” their lawyer said in a statement. “They just want to bring their son home.”
According to TMZ, a mortuary is holding Coleman’s remains and his funeral has been canceled for now.
Golden Girl Rue McClanahan, 76, has died.
“She passed away at 1 a.m. this morning,” her manager, Barbara Lawrence, tells PEOPLE. “She had a massive stroke.”
McClanahan, who played Blanche Deveraux on the still-popular ’80s sitcom Golden Girls, had suffered a minor stroke earlier this year while recovering from bypass surgery. Lawrence added that at the time of her death Thursday, McClanahan “had her family with her. She went in peace.”
RIP 
The son of former Nightline news anchor Ted Koppel has been found dead in a New York City apartment, police said.
Andrew Koppel, 40, was declared dead around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday after police responded to a 911 call, Det. Joseph Cavitolo told TVGuide.com. A medical examiner will determine the cause of death, he said.
Koppel, who worked for the city’s Housing Attorney, had been drinking all day Monday in a Hell’s Kitchen bar, where he befriended a stranger, Russell Wimberly, the New York Post reported.
The two drank all day — Koppel drank straight whiskey — and did not eat anything, Wimberly, 32, told the Post, before they arrived at the Washington Heights apartment owned by Wimberly’s friend, Belinda Caban, 53, around 11 p.m. Wimberly said he and Caban put Koppel to bed and called 911 a few hours later when he appeared to be not breathing.
Police will not comment on the Post’s report, Cavitolo said.
Andrew Koppel, who lived in Queens with his girlfriend and baby daughter, was one of Ted Koppel’s four children with his wife, Grace Anne. A call to Ted Koppel’s rep was not immediately returned. Wimberly and Caban could not be located for comment.
