Obituaries

Alice Tan Ridley, a singer who shared her powerful vocals on ‘America’s Got Talent’ and was the mother of Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe, has died. She was 72.

Marvin Levy, a top-notch publicist who forged a nearly 50-year working bond with Steven Spielberg, died Monday at age 96. Spielberg called Levy ‘one of a kind.’

The Placer County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that 26-year-old Ellery ‘Ellie’ Curtis died from a head injury at the Palisades Tahoe resort in Olympic Valley.

Blondie drummer Clem Burke has died after a battle with cancer, the band announced Monday. The self-proclaimed ‘Rock & Roll survivalist’ was 70.

Barile’s group was a linchpin of the drink-and-drug-shunning straight-edge scene of the early 1980s that also included Washington’s Minor Threat.

The Compton resident was a member of the ‘Triple Nickles,’ a World War II combat-ready unit who trained as some of America’s first ‘smokejumpers.’

Disgraced former Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has died. He was 94.

Hurley, a favorite of Cat Power and Lucinda Williams, was ‘the purveyor of an eccentric genius and compassionate wit.’