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The household of the late Richard Simmons has opened up concerning the health legend’s loss of life.
Offering an announcement to Individuals via Simmons’ publicist, Tom Estey, on Tuesday, July 16, the household expressed their gratitude to Simmons’ followers.
“The Simmons household is overwhelmed and past grateful for the outpouring of affection proven to our beloved Dicky,” the assertion learn. “He’s up above smiling down in any respect of you.”
Simmons died in his Los Angeles house on Saturday, July 13, simply two days after his 76th birthday.
Richard Simmons was a health legend starting within the Nineteen Seventies. Simmons rose to fame pioneering his “Sweatin’ to the Oldies” aerobics exercises, main him to launch his personal health studio Slimmons till its 2016 closure. After Slimmons closed up store for good, the burden loss guru resigned from the limelight, prompting rampant conspiracy theories about […]
The household famous that they are going to present no additional remark as they take the “time to grieve as we so desperately must do.”
Simmons was pronounced useless on the scene by authorities and his loss of life is believed to be from pure causes, nonetheless the official reason for loss of life stays below investigation.
The Medical Examiner’s Workplace in Los Angeles has deferred a reason for loss of life whereas further testing continues, per Individuals’s reporting on Monday, July 15. Police informed the outlet that there “isn’t any foul play concerned.”
Representatives confirmed Simmons’ loss of life to ABC Information on Saturday. Per the outlet, the Los Angeles Police Division responded to a name from Simmons’ housekeeper on Saturday morning.
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Simply in the future previous to his loss of life, Simmons shared a birthday message and despatched gratitude to his followers through Fb.
“So a lot of you may have despatched me birthday needs on my Fb and different platforms,” he wrote. “I actually recognize that. I don’t know when your birthday is however I want you a cheerful and wholesome birthday!”
Simmons’ brother, Lenny, spoke to Individuals about his late brother’s life after he handed away.
“I don’t need individuals to be unhappy about my brother,” Lenny mentioned. “I need them to recollect him for the real pleasure and love he delivered to individuals’s lives. He actually cared about individuals. He referred to as, wrote and emailed hundreds of individuals all through his profession to supply assist. So don’t be unhappy. Rejoice his life.”
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In March, Simmons was identified with “scary” basal cell carcinoma and had it faraway from his physique earlier this 12 months.
“[The skin cancer] by no means got here again. So many individuals have most cancers,” he mentioned on the time. “I name them, I sing to them. ‘You’re gonna get via this. You simply should consider that.”
Born in New Orleans in 1948, Simmons was famend for his flamboyant, eccentric persona, which helped him promote his weight-loss applications and line of aerobics movies, Sweatin’ to the Oldies.
He opened a gymnasium, Slimmons, in Beverly Hills and have become extra broadly recognized via varied tv appearances, together with visitor spots on The Late Present with David Letterman and The Howard Stern Present.
