Karen Elizabeth Margalit, 29, a California-born olah to Israel in 1996 who died September 26, 2007, from an apparent drug overdose and was unidentified for two months, has been identified and reburied under her name.
Margalit became addicted to tranquilizers and painkillers after suffering a slipped disc. She was treated at drug rehabilitation and psychiatric centers. She lived on the streets of Tel Aviv. When she died in September in a Tel Aviv parking lot, police were unable to identify her, and she was buried anonymously at Kibbutz Revadim on Nov. 12. No one attended her funeral. (more…)
Categories: Americans · Israelis · Young
Tagged: addict, alcoholism, california, drugs, Jewish, obituary, tel aviv, woman
Paul Wasserman, 73, of Los Angeles, a music industry publicist whose clients included rock royalty such as the Rolling Stones, the Who, Linda Ronstadt, Bob Dylan and Neil Diamond, died Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007, of respiratory failure.
(A tribute to Paul Wasserman by Gil Markle will be posted on In My Heart on Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007. Click here to read.)
Along with his rock musician clients, Wasserman represented the cream of late-20th century Hollywood, including Lee Marvin, Dennis Hopper, Jack Lemmon, Jack Nicholson and George C. Scott. He publicized such films as “Cat Ballou,” “Easy Rider,” “Annie Hall” and “Star Wars.” (more…)
Categories: Americans · Artists · Celebrities · Hollywood
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