Tanya Roberts, the actress best known for playing a Bond girl in A View to a Kill and Midge Pinciotti on That ’70s Show, is now dead; her longtime friend and representative Mike Pingel told ABC News on Tuesday. She was 65.
This news comes a day after conflicting reports on Roberts’ status, with Pingel mistakenly identifying her as dead Monday morning; before clarifying she was still alive later that afternoon.
Roberts had been hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles since December 24 after collapsing at her home. Pingel announced that Roberts was dead on January 4 in the intensive care unit.
Pingel also revealed Roberts’ cause of death to be from a urinary tract infection; which spread from her liver to her gallbladder and into her bloodstream.
Lance O’Brien, Roberts’ longtime domestic partner, heard of her passing last night and picked up her personal possessions from the hospital Tuesday morning.
Roberts was an animal rights activist. So, instead of flowers, her family is asking for sympathizers to make donations in her name to the ASPCA. The family ask for privacy as they mourn her death.
Roberts, born Victoria Leigh Blum, scored her most notable film role as Stacey Sutton opposite Roger Moore in the 1985 Bond movie, A View to a Kill. The actress landed her first big TV role in 1980 on ABC’s Charlie’s Angels, playing Julie Rogers for the show’s fifth and final season.
