Personal Life and Death
Perry married his first wife, Eleanor Perry (née Rosenfeld) in 1958. They divorced in 1971 on grounds of incompatibility. Following the divorce from his second wife, author Barbara Goldsmith, he married his Aspen ski instructor, 22-year-younger Virginia Brush Ford, on June 15, 1992. He was pop singer Katy Perry's half-uncle (his half-sister is Katy Perry's mother).
Perry died of prostate cancer on August 29, 1995, eight days after his 65th birthday, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. His final film, 1992's On the Bridge, is an autobiographical documentary dealing with the illness. His ashes were scattered on the mountains of Aspen, Colorado, where he lived the last three years of his life.
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