On July 22, 2008, at approximately 5:30 a.m. PDT, Estelle Getty died in her Hollywood Boulevard home in Los Angeles from natural causes (according to her manager), three days before her 85th birthday.
She was best known for her role as Sophia Petrillo on the popular 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls. Petrillo was a wise-cracking old Sicilian mother of Dorothy Zbornak, played by Beatrice Arthur (the other main characters being played by Betty White and Rue McClanahan); in real life, Getty was in fact one year younger than Arthur.
(btw, smokestack, Rue McClanahan was actually the youngest Golden Girl, then Estelle Getty, then Bea Arthur and Betty White)
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