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Ruth Webb Dies

Talent agent Ruth Webb, who in the โ€™70s helped revive the careers of then fading stars like Ginger Rogers and Mickey Rooney, died December 4th in a Los Angeles hospital after a lengthy pulmonary illness.

Webb, 88, was a former Broadway actress and cabaret singer who was perhaps best known for the clients in her agencyโ€™s โ€œscandal division,โ€ a whoโ€™s who of newsmakers and publicly disgraced celebs including Tonya Harding, John Wayne Bobbitt, Kato Kaelin and Tammy Faye [Baker] Messner.

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