Death
Greta Garbo died on 15 April 1990, aged 84, in New York Hospital as a result of pneumonia and renal failure. She had been successfully treated for breast cancer in 1984. Garbo was cremated and her ashes were interred in 1999 at Skogskyrkogården Cemetery just south of her native Stockholm.
She had invested wisely, primarily in stocks and bonds, and left her entire estate, $32,042,429, to her niece, Gray Reisfield.
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