Actor Ron Silver, 51, was granted a divorce from his wife, magazine editor Lynne Miller, late last month after 21 years of marriage. The couple, who separated in 1993, have two teenage children.
French photographer and painter Dora Maar, 89, who was Picasso's lover and the model for many of his paintings in the 1930s and '40s, died on July 16 of undisclosed causes in Paris. Maar suffered from bouts of depression and became increasingly reclusive after the painter left her in the mid-1940s for a younger mistress, artist Francoise Gilot....
Former tennis star Frank Parker, 81, who won the U.S. Championships in 1944 and '45, died on July 24 in San Diego after undergoing surgery. Parker also captured two French national singles titles, in 1948 and '49....
Josh the Wonder Dog, 16, holder of the 1997 Guinness Book of World Records title as the world's most petted dog (478,000 pettings at time of death), died of cancer on July 23 in Pasadena, Md. Josh, a terrier-mix, became the model for the mutt hero of four books by his owner, Richard Lynn Stack, including The Dog-gonest Christmas (1988).
Chicago Bull Scottie Pippen, 31, married student Larsa Younan, 23, on July 20 in Chicago. It is Pippen's second marriage; her first.
Polly, a lamb that is the first clone to carry a human gene in every cell of its body, was born on July 9 in Edinburgh. The groundbreaking experiment was conducted by the same biotechnology laboratory that bred the sheep Dolly, the first mammal created from a single adult cell by cloning, in July 1996.
On July 25 an L.A. jury acquitted actor Carroll O'Connor, 73, of charges that he slandered songwriter Harry Perzigian, 41, by calling him "a partner in murder" for supplying O'Connor's son Hugh with cocaine. Hugh O'Connor committed suicide in March 1995 after a long struggle with cocaine addiction....
Vincent "the Chin" Gigante, 69, reputed boss of the Genovese crime family, was convicted in New York City on July 25 of racketeering and masterminding two murder conspiracies....
Sylvester Stallone, 51, filed suit against D.E.M. Productions charging that a six-minute cameo he did for an upcoming drama, The Good Life, is being promoted as a starring role. Stallone is seeking $20 million, his standard per-movie rate, in damages....
On July 23 magician David Copperfield, 40, filed a $30 million defamation suit in L.A. against the French magazine Paris Match for publishing a story claiming that he had paid model Claudia Schiffer, 26, to pose as his fiancée. Christophe Laffaille, an editor at Paris Match, said, "I think that he had a bad translation of the article."
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