A correspondent for three city TV stations, he became famous for his “Shame on You” segments that investigated consumer fraud and aggressively confronted wrongdoers on camera.
Category: Deaths (Obituaries)
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Aaron Spears, Drummer for Usher and Ariana Grande, Dies at 47
He received a Grammy nomination for Usher’s 2004 album “Confessions” and played on tracks by Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga and many other major pop musicians.
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Aaron Spears, Drummer for Usher and Ariana Grande, Dies at 47
He received a Grammy nomination for Usher’s 2004 album “Confessions” and played on tracks by Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga and many other major pop musicians.
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Louis Oliver Gropp Dies at 88; Led Shelter Magazines Through Turmoil
He turned House & Garden into an upscale chronicle of the good life in the 1980s, and broadened the focus of House Beautiful in the 1990s.
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Joe Hill, Swashbuckling South Street Seaport Merchant, Dies at 76
His cluttered store selling nautical bric-a-brac was a last link to Lower Manhattan’s seafaring history, before giving way to a tide of “shopping mall” stores.
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Vincent Asaro, Mobster Acquitted in Lufthansa Heist, Dies at 86
In a stunning verdict, he was found not guilty of participating in the storied 1978 theft, retold in the film “Goodfellas.” Then he went to prison over a road rage incident.
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Anita A. Summers, Economist, Dies at 98; Brought Rigor to Public Policy
As a professor at the Wharton School and a pioneering woman in a male-dominated field, she developed new ways of thinking about tough issues.
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Rock Brynner, Son of Hollywood Royalty Who Cut His Own Path, Dies at 76
The only male child of the actor Yul Brynner, he built a peripatetic career as a writer, historian, novelist, playwright — and roadie for the Band.
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Richard Roundtree, Star of ‘Shaft,’ Dies at 81
While indelibly tied to the role that made him famous in 1971, he remained active for more than four decades afterward.
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Richard Roundtree, Star of ‘Shaft,’ Dies at 81
While indelibly tied to the role that made him famous in 1971, the actor remained active for more than four decades afterward.
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Natalie Zemon Davis, Historian of the Marginalized, Dies at 94
She wrote of peasants, unsung women, border crossers and, most popularly, Martin Guerre, a 16th-century village impostor recalled in a 1980s movie.
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Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93
“I knew at some point in time the patent office would recognize” computer software, he said. It happened in 1968, helping to ignite the software market.