Famous ‘sex symbol’ actor Raquel Welch passes on at 82 due to brief illness

Famous ‘sex symbol’ actor Raquel Welch passes on at 82 due to brief illness

Today did Raquel Welch die?
Actually, the days ago, the international sex symbol of her time Raquel Welch died after going home in Los Angeles USA brief finding ill at age 80 on February 15.

Raquel Welch, a prominent Hollywood actress, passed away due to a number disease, namely breast cancer.
The people at Variety confirmed it and her manager, said that Raquel Welch passed away at the age of 82.
Her family said that Welch died in Los Angeles on February 15, in the morning, due to a short illness. It was not specified what ailment ailed her and no more was said about it.

Prior to this sad news, the Ray Harryhausen family spokesperson – an American-English filmmaker who produced famous works in the 1960s, including One Million Years BC – expressed condolences upon hearing the news of Raquel Welch’s passing: “It’s with sadness to see that Raquel Welch, the leading actress in the 1966 Ray Harryhausen One Million Years B. C. where she played Loana, has passed on, she played the sultry cave woman in that film that produced one of the most recognizable Hollywood posters of all time … condolences to her family in this time of grief. ”

Josephine Raquel Welch was born in the year 1940 in Chicago. So far she has acted in more than seventy full length films and TV roles; starting from her appearance as a spokeswoman for the Hollywood Palace variety show, and a dance part in Elvis Presley’s Roustabout in 1964.

The so-called birth of the modern bikini, can be accredited to Raquel Welch in the movie One Million Years B. C. in 1966. After that, the actress was considered as a sex symbol and everyone including millions of fans wanted to be with her.

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