Golden Girls’ star Rue McClanahan, died early this morning at the age of 76.
Rue was best known as Golden Girls’ sexy Southern debutante Blanche Devereaux and as the scatterbrained Vivian Harmon on Maude.
McClanahan suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Monday and died at 1 a.m. Thursday with her family at her side in the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, according to the actress’ manager, Barbara Lawrence.
McClanahan had been in ill health for the past few months after undergoing a a cardial bypass late last year and then suffering a stroke in January.
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