On 1/29/81, aged 46, she died after a long battle with breast cancer, at her home in Beverly Hills, surrounded by her family.
In 1963 she gave birth to her first child, daughter Maria Geisel. Father was her first husband, Dave Geisel. In 1968 she gave birth to her second child, daughter Danna Rosenfield. Father was her second husband, Donald Thorman Rosenfeld.