Dead Celebrity Alert

Catya Sassoon, 33, the model-turned-actress daughter of celebrity hair stylist Vidal Sassoon, died in her sleep Tuesday morning at her home in the Hollywood Hills.

Ms. Sassoon’s manager, Hilly Elkins, said Ms. Sassoon complained of feeling “woozy” at a party at a friend’s house and went home. When Ms. Sassoon’s husband, Joe Myers, tried to awaken her a few hours later, she failed to respond, Elkins said. Results of an autopsy are pending.

Born in New York City, Ms. Sassoon was the first of Beverly and Vidal Sassoon’s four children. Growing up in Los Angeles, she lived a fast life.

At 14, she dropped out of Beverly Hills High School in her freshman year and left home to work as a model in Manhattan. … Read full obituary

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