Easy Rider star Karen Black dies at 74
Karen Black, who starred in classic films like Easy Rider, Five Easy
Pieces and Nashville in the 1960s and 70s died in a Los Angeles
nursing home on August 8, her husband Stephen Eckelberry announced on his
Facebook page. She was 74.
Black was diagnosed with ampullary cancer in
November 2010 and had a third of her pancreas removed. She had two more
operations this year to minimise the cancer, and her husband said in March
that she was “mostly bed-bound” and down to just 6½ stone.
The couple turned to a crowdfunding website and
raised tens of thousands of dollars to pay for an experimental treatment in
Europe but Black’s rapidly declining health stopped her from travelling, so sadly
she never made it to Europe.
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