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  2. Oct 14, 2021 · Cass Elliot, the singer of The Mamas and the Papas, died of a heart attack in 1974 at age 32. Learn about her career, her struggles, her final performance and the urban legend that surrounded her death.

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    Elliot did not die from choking on a ham sandwich. According to Lindsay Zoladz in The New York Times in 2024, this "cartoonish rumor—propagated in endless pop culture references, from Austin Powers to Lost—cast a tawdry light over Elliot’s legacy and still threatens to overshadow her mighty, underappreciated talent."

  4. Dec 16, 2020 · Cass died of a massive heart attack in her sleep. "There was left-sided heart failure," as The Guardian quotes pathologist Keith Simpson. "She had a heart attack which developed rapidly."

  5. Aug 29, 1974 · Cass Elliot, 32, died in the early morning of July 29th in the London flat of Harry Nilsson, where she was living with her friend and road manager, George Caldwell, during her stay in England.

  6. May 1, 2024 · The Mamas & The Papas singer Cass Elliot died at 32, and her daughter Owen Elliott-Kugel has had to live with rumors ever since.

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  7. May 9, 2024 · For years, the origin of the story that Elliot died from choking on a ham sandwich — one of the cruelest and most persistent myths in rock ’n’ roll history — was largely unknown.

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  9. Apr 5, 2022 · On July 29, 1974, ‘Mama Cass’ Elliot died in her sleep in a London apartment at the age of 32. The star was one of the most famous members of the group The Mamas & the Papas and had just completed a successful two-week engagement at the Palladium.

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