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Death. Benet was devastated by her son's death and sank into a severe depression. On April 7, 1982, she died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at her home in Los Angeles. She was 36. In her book The Death of Right and Wrong, talk radio host Tammy Bruce writes of her personal involvement with Bixby and Benet. Benet and Bruce were romantically ...
Apr 9, 1982 · Brenda Benet, an actress who played on the soap opera ''Days of Our Lives,'' shot and killed herself, the police said. Miss Benet, 36 years old, was found Wednesday in the bathroom of her West...
Aug 1, 2009 · Brenda Benet, a hated seductress in the DAYS OF OUR LIVES soap opera, but a "warm and caring" person in real life, has killed herself, after the deal of her son and the end of her marriage,...
Brenda Benet. Actress. She is best remembered for her role as the scheming villainess 'Lee Dumonde' on the daytime serial Days of our Lives, which she played from 1979 until her death in 1982.
Tragically, Christopher died in 1981 during a winter ski vacation in California. It was believed that this and her divorce from Bixby were the events which caused Brenda's life to spin out of control. On April 7, 1982, Brenda went into the bathroom of her West Los Angeles home, lit and arranged some candles in a circle on the floor and lay down.
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Reeling from the death of her son, Brenda Benet fatally shot herself on April 7, 1982. We sometimes think of our soaps, “Oh, that’s too dark. That’s just too sad.” But daytime storylines, even...
May 21, 2011 · [Update 2: This is Brenda Benet and it was particularly sad to be scanning photos of her on Mother’s Day, considering her story. At right, the March 4, 1981, account of her son’s death while undergoing emergency surgery. Benet committed suicide a month after the first anniversary of her son’s death.
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Apr 8, 1982 · LOS ANGELES -- Actress Brenda Benet, who played the often hysterical Lee Williams in the television soap opera 'Days of Our Lives,' committed suicide with a gunshot wound to the head, officials...
Photo Gallery. 16 photos. Biography. Brenda Benet, born Brenda Ann Nelson in Los Angeles, California, on August 14, 1945, was a classic example of the modern-day Hollywood tragedy.