Celebrity Deaths | featured news

Television actor Johnny Palermo, who appeared in more than 30 shows during his career, died June 8 in a fatal car accident, according to the Hollywood reporter.

The family of actor David Carradine has asked U.S. authorities to help unravel the mystery of his death, amid conflicting reports about how his body was found hanging naked in a Bangkok hotel.

A source says the deceased actor was reaching out to past associates for jobs for fast cash.

The death of actor David Carradine has forced a recast of what was to be his next project, the indie drama "Portland," on the eve of principal photography in Portland, Los Angeles and along the Pacific coast.

Koko Taylor, a sharecropper's daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet "Queen of the Blues," has died after complications from surgery. She was 80.

U.S. actor David Carradine was found dead, naked and hanging from a rope in the closet of his luxury Bangkok hotel room on Thursday, Thai police said.

Ortega Devon Henderson, an up-and-coming rapper who traveled in the same orbit as fellow artist Nelly, died Wednesday of injuries suffered May 16 in a shooting in Wellston, his friends and family said.

In the early '90s he won back-to-back NBA championships with the Detroit Pistons and coached the first Dream Team to Olympic gold.

Actor and comedian Dom DeLuise, whose big screen classics included “The Cannonball Run,” “Spaceballs” and “History of the World Part I,” died on Monday night at a Los Angeles hospital, Access Hollywood has confirmed. He was 75.

Jack Kemp, the ex-quarterback, congressman, one-time vice-presidential nominee and self-described "bleeding-heart conservative" died Saturday.