'Columbo' star Peter Falk's daughter Jackie dies at 60

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Jacqueline Falk, daughter of the late “Columbo” star Peter Falk, died Monday by suicide, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner.She was 60.Jackie Falk died at her Los Angeles residence, the department’s website said.

The case is still listed as open.Obituaries In a more than 50-year acting career that spanned movies, stage and TV, Falk’s disheveled Lt.

Columbo became one of TV’s most memorable characters.The Times was unable to obtain further information about Jackie Falk’s death Wednesday as the medical examiner’s public information office was closed because of staffing issues.Peter Falk was 83 when he died at his Beverly Hills home in June 2011.He and first wife Alyce Mayo married in 1960 and later adopted sisters Jackie and Catherine.

The college sweethearts divorced in 1976, but according to Catherine — who was around 5 when her parents split — they remained “best friends.”“I remember watching my mom and dad laugh and tell stories about their college years,” she told Closer magazine in 2023.“It was nice as a teenager to experience that.”Peter Falk would bring both her and her older sister Jackie to movie premieres and set visits, and loved to take them ice skating, Catherine Falk said.

Television Shera Danese is a former Miss Pennsylvania who has just signed to play Cher’s part in the CBS series version of “Mermaids.” In 1977, he married actor Shera Danese, who he met while making the 1976 movie “Mikey and Nicky.”“He saw me walking down the street, and that was it,” Danese told The Times in 1991.She said with a giggle that at 15 years or so into their marriage, “I tell him what to do.” Danese has not acted in film or TV since the year before Peter Falk’s death, according to IMDb.The family story grew complicated when Catherine Falk alleged that Danese hindered access to their father.After what...