Death
On November 15, 1962, three weeks short of her sixty-second birthday, Lentz took a room at the Knickerbocker Hotel, checking in under an assumed name. She jumped to her death from her bathroom window at about 3 p.m., landing on the extended roof of the lobby, where she was discovered later that same night (not two days later, as is often reported).
She had left notes for friends and family, for her ailing husband, and for the hotel residents, apologizing for any inconvenience her death might cause. Per her wishes, she was interred next to her first husband, director F. Richard Jones, in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
In 2005, Irene Lentz was inducted into the Costume Designers Guild's Anne Cole Hall of Fame.
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