Olivia Hussey, the actress who rose to international notoriety as a teenager for her portrayal in the famous 1968 film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, has died at 73.

The Argentine-born actress, who grew up in London, died on Friday in the arms of her loved ones, according to an Instagram message.

Hussey won the Golden Globe for Best New Actress for her role as Juliet, but she later sued Paramount Pictures for sexual abuse because she was just 15 years old when she recorded the film’s nude scene.

Her other most noteworthy movie role was as Mary, Jesus’ mother, in the 1977 television miniseries Jesus of Nazareth.

According to the BBC, the family said, “As we grieve this immense loss, we also celebrate Olivia’s enduring impact on our lives and the industry.”

Olivia Hussey was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1951 and moved to London at seven to study at the Italia Conti Academy, a theatrical school.

She was 15 years old when Franco Zeffirelli, the director of Romeo and Juliet, saw her onstage opposite Vanessa Redgrave in the play The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Zeffirelli sought a young actress who could convincingly play Juliet in what he hoped would be the definitive film adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy.

Olivia Hussey and British 16-year-old Leonard Whiting played Romeo in the film.

The film received Academy Award nominations for best picture and director. Hussey did not receive an Oscar nomination despite a successful year in which Barbra Streisand won the top prize for Funny Girl.

However, that year, Olivia Hussey won the Golden Globe for Best New Talent.

Decades later, she and Whiting sued Paramount Pictures, claiming Zeffirelli, who died in 2019, had persuaded them to record naked scenes despite previous assurances that they would not have to.

The couple demanded damages above $500 million (£417 million), citing the agony they said they had endured and the revenue generated by the film since its premiere. However, last year, a court dismissed the complaint because the scene was not “sufficiently sexually suggestive”.

Olivia Hussey rejoined with Zeffirelli in 1977 for Jesus of Nazareth, playing the Virgin Mary, before returning the following year for Death on the Nile, based on Agatha Christie’s novel.

Her performances in the early slasher Black Christmas (1974) and the television film Psycho IV: The Beginning cemented her reputation as a scream queen. In the latter, she portrayed Norman Bates’ mother in a precursor plot.

She began working as a voice actress in subsequent years, appearing regularly in video games.

However, she did have one final reunion with her old Romeo, as she and Whiting featured together in the 2015 British film Social Suicide, which was loosely based on Romeo and Juliet and set in the social media era.

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Dayle Haddon, a former Sports Illustrated model and actress, has died as a result of a carbon monoxide poisoning at a home in Pennsylvania, authorities have reported.

In the 1970s, Dayle Haddon modeled for Estée Lauder and L’Oreal and appeared on the covers of Sports Illustrated and Vogue Paris.

Pennsylvania Police said they received a phone at 06:31 local time on Friday that a 76-year-old man had passed out on the first floor of a building at a Bucks County property. Haddon’s body was discovered deceased in a second-floor bedroom.

According to CBS News, Haddon’s daughter, former journalist Ryan Haddon, and her husband, actor Marc Blucas, owned the building.

Police investigators report that a defective exhaust pipe on the building’s heating system caused a carbon monoxide leak.

They also stated that the high amounts of carbon monoxide inside the building had an impact on emergency responders, with two medics hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning and a police officer being treated on-site.

Dayle Haddon was born and reared in Quebec, Canada, and started her career as a ballerina.

She came to the United States to pursue a modeling career and later worked in cinema, appearing in films such as The World’s Greatest Athlete (1973) and North Dallas Forty (1979).

Ryan Haddon said on Instagram that Dayle Haddon had “a pure heart” and “a life well lived” in honor of her mother.

“She was a powerful woman who was kind and attentive to everyone. Deeply creative and curious, having beauty both inside and out. “I am always kind and thoughtful,” she remarked.

“She was a high-hearted spiritual being that put value on her soul’s evolution, so I know her journey here in this dimension must have been complete.”

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Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who is expecting her first child in January, flaunted her baby bump in a family vacation photo shared on social media.

Gypsy Rose, wearing a white pregnant sweater and blue jeans, posed in front of a Christmas tree with her father, Rod Blanchard, stepmother Kristy Blanchard, and Ken Urker.

While her baby is not due until the new year, Gypsy Rose has already settled on a name: Aurora Raina Urker. Gypsy admits that she had some help coming up with the name.

Ken came up with that. “There’s a whole backstory to it,” she told People in an interview this month, adding that reports she stole the name from her stepmother’s dog, Aurora Grace, are false. “It’s not because of that.”

Gypsy Rose went on to explain how and when she and Ken, who ended their engagement in 2019 before rejoining in 2023, came up with their baby’s name.

“When Ken and I were together seven years ago, we were both fascinated by the Northern Lights, which are officially known as the Aurora Borealis,” she remarked.

I believe it was in 2018 when we scribbled each other’s future children’s names on sheets of paper, and Aurora was the name we both chose without realizing it. Gypsy married teacher Ryan Anderson in 2022 but filed for divorce after less than two years.

She and Ken reconnected in spring 2024.

We are together and in a great place in our relationship; we realize it will be a long road ahead, but we are thrilled about the future,” she said.

Gypsy Rose was sentenced to ten years in prison in 2016 after convincing her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to murder her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, the previous year.

She pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was released in December 2023 after serving eight years at Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Center.

Nicholas Godejohn, Gypsy’s then-boyfriend, was convicted of murder in 2019 and sentenced to life in prison. The pair planned to kill Dee Dee because Gypsy, a Munchausen by proxy sufferer, wanted to escape her mother’s torture.

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