Later Years
In 1971 Omarr was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and as the disease impacted his body he lost his sight in the early 1990s and became paralyzed from the neck down. Sydney Omarr died in Santa Monica, California, 2 January 2003. at the Saint John's Health Center from a heart attack.
Omarr is mentioned in Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice (p. 34)
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