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Ms. Stein in 1966 attending a benefit party for The Paris Review at the Village Gate.
Larry C. Morris/The New York Times; thumbnail, Brigitte Lacombe, 1980
Jean Stein
Died on April 30, 2017 at age 83
Ms. Stein was a child of Hollywood wealth whose restless curiosity led her to produce oral histories about Robert F. Kennedy, the tragic Warhol star Edie Sedgwick and a group of people and families, including her own, who transformed Los Angeles.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.