Dead Celebrity Alert

Richard Jewell, the Centennial Olympic Park security guard once suspected — but later cleared — in the bombing of the park during the 1996 Summer Games, was found dead Wednesday in his home in Meriwether County. He was 44. …

…Jewell had been diagnosed with diabetes in February and had a couple of toes amputated. … Read full story

Hilly Kristal, whose dank Bowery rock club CBGB served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and a launching pad for bands like the Ramones, Blondie and the Talking Heads, has died. He was 75. … Read full obituary

HINSDALE, Ill., Aug. 27 (AP) — Charles Albert Comiskey II, grandson and namesake of the Chicago White Sox founder and a former front-office executive and co-owner during the Go Go Sox years in the 1950s, died in his sleep at his home here on Sunday. He was 81. … Read full obituary

NEW YORK — Leona Helmsley, the cutthroat hotel magnate whose title as the “queen of mean” was sealed during a tax evasion case in which she was quoted as snarling “only little people pay taxes,” died Monday at age 87.

Helmsley died of heart failure at her summer home in Greenwich, Conn., said her publicist, Howard Rubenstein. … Read full obituary

… Rizzuto, who would have been 90 in September, died Tuesday from pneumonia after living his last several years in declining health at a West Orange, N.J., nursing home. … Read full obituary

Brooke Astor, who by night reigned over New York society with a decided disdain for pretension and by day devoted her time and considerable resources to New York’s unfortunate, died Monday afternoon at her weekend estate, Holly Hill, in Briarcliff Manor, New York. She was 105. … Read full obituary

LOS ANGELES — Merv Griffin, the entertainer turned impresario who parlayed his “Jeopardy” and “Wheel of Fortune” game shows into a multimillion-dollar empire, has died. He was 82. … Read full obituary

Wolfgang Sievers, one of Australia’s most accomplished photographers whose work captured the relationship between man and machine, has died aged 93. … Read full obituary

The man who gave us the song “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’” has died.

Singer-songwriter Lee Hazlewood died of kidney cancer at his home outside Las Vegas on Saturday evening, according to the Clark County coroner’s office. He was 78. … Read full obituary

Jerry Ringlien, best known as creator of the “My bologna has a first name” campaign, died of a heart attack Monday in Wilkesboro, N.C. He was 77. … Read full obituary