Arts & Entertainment

Doe Avedon Siegel, Actress and Ex-Wife of Photographer Richard Avedon, Dies at 86

Siegel died of pneumonia Sunday at Encino Hospital Medical Center.

Doe Avedon Siegel, model, actress and ex-wife of photographer Richard Avedon, died Sunday of pneumonia at , according to the Los Angeles Times. She was 86. Click here to view the Times obituary.

Siegel, who appeared with John Wayne in the 1954 movie The High and the Mighty, was married to Avedon early in his career, from 1944 until their divorce in 1949. Avedon died in 2004 at the age of 81.


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