Jimi Heselden, the multi-millionaire owner of the Segway company died Sunday after he fell of a cliff riding one of the machines that his company produces. Heselden, 62, plunged into a river in Yorth Yorkshire, UK, while riding around his large estate. Police were called after receiving reports that a man had been found dead in the River ( Read more... )

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The cause was lung cancer, said Charles Lief, Mr. Orlovsky’s guardian. Mr. Orlovsky had diabetes and had struggled with drug and alcohol addiction for much of his life, Mr. Lief said.

Mr. Orlovsky was just 21, recently discharged from the Army and working as an artist’s model when he met Ginsberg in the San Francisco studio of the painter ( Read more... )

Ilanit (Hila) Elmalich, 34, Israel, model, anorexia, Nov. 14Israeli model Ilanit (Hila) Elmalich, who once worked for the Israeli branch of the Elite modeling agency, died Nov. 14 of complications from anorexia on her 34th birthday. Her death has sparked a global debate about pressures on models and young women to be thin - or too thin - and the ( Read more... )