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One day after a sensational hoax about her death, actress Tanya Roberts died, according to spokespersons and media reports.
"With a heavy heart I can confirm the death of Tanya Roberts (65) (on Monday evening)," said spokesman Mike Pingel of the German press agency.
Roberts' partner Lance O'Brien confirmed the death to the AP news agency.
Her doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center informed him of her passing on Monday evening, he said. According to Pingel, Roberts died of complications from a urinary tract infection after she collapsed on Christmas Eve.
The case made headlines because spokesman Pingel had announced the alleged death of Roberts on Sunday in a hospital in Los Angeles prematurely.
He had to correct his information because Roberts was still alive at the time.
In his first, false statement, partner O'Brien was quoted as saying, "When I held her in her last moments, she opened her eyes." Several media outlets, including WELT, had reported on the death and had to correct themselves.
How this serious misunderstanding came about could not initially be clarified with absolute certainty.
Some media attributed it to a communication problem between the speaker and the partner, other reports explained that O'Brien really thought the actress was dead and told the speaker Pingel.
Bond actor Roger Moore with Tanya Roberts
Source: AP / Alexis Duclos
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Roberts, who was born in 1955 in the New York borough of Bronx, achieved national fame in the USA in the early 1980s when she played one of "Charlie's Angels" in the last season of the series.
In the James Bond classic "In the Face of Death" she was the woman at Roger Moore's side.
She was also often seen in the popular series "The Wild 70s".