Bestselling author Hailey is dead
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British-born writer Arthur Hailey, author of 11 best-sellers, dies at his home in the Bahamas, says his wife Sheila.
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Anna Nicole Smith, the pneumatic blonde whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale &#151; Playboy centerfold, jeans model, bride of an octogenarian oil tycoon, reality-show subject, tragic mother &#151; died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel. She was 39.
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Socialite Nicky Hilton, heiress to the hotel fortune with her celebrity sister Paris, has ended her marriage to money manager Todd Meister after less than three months, representatives for the pair said on Tuesday.
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Best-selling author and journalist  Bebe Moore Campbell, who tackled social issues from an African  American perspective in books like "Brothers and Sisters," has  died of complications from brain cancer.
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Her death severs one of our last remaining links to the Golden Age Of Bollywood.
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Socialite Nicky Hilton, heiress to  the hotel fortune with her celebrity sister Paris, has ended  her marriage to money manager Todd Meister after less than  three months, representatives for the pair said on Tuesday.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot; at the age of 18 and courted controversy throughout her life, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said.
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Susan Sontag, the American author, activist and self-defined &quot;zealot of seriousness&quot;, whose provocative prose made her a leading intellectual, has passed away.
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HONFLEUR, France - Francoise Sagan, author of the best-selling 1954 novel &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot; about seduction and infidelity among the idle rich, died Friday.
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HOLLYWOOD, Florida  - Anna Nicole Smith, the small-town Texas girl turned voluptuous Playboy Playmate who became a tabloid fixture while fighting all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court over the estate of her billionaire husband, died suddenly at the age of 39 on Thursday.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot  to fame with her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" at the age of  18, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said. Sagan, who was  69, courted controversy throughout her life and lived the  Bohemian lifestyle she portrayed in her writing. She was a  longstanding friend of late President Francois Mitterrand and  was convicted of taking drugs and for tax fraud.
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Best-selling author Sidney Sheldon has died from complications arising from pneumonia, his publicist told AFP. He was 89.
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Best-selling US novelist Sidney Sheldon dies in California aged 89 of complications from pneumonia.
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Novelist Arthur Hailey, who has died at the age of 84, was known for his bestselling page-turners exploring the inner workings of various industries, from the hotels to high finance.
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A daughter of reality TV star Duane &quot;Dog&quot; Chapman was killed in a car accident late Friday, a day before her father&#039;s wedding, a spokesman said.
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Novelist Phyllis A. Whitney, whose romantic suspense tales sold millions of copies and earned her top accolades from the Mystery Writers of America, has died. She was 104.
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Novelist and gay rights activist  Joseph Hansen, whose highly successful mystery series featured  one of the genre's first openly homosexual investigators, Dave  Brandstetter, has died at age 81 after a long illness, friends  said on Monday.