Posted on 01/06/2007 8:51:20 AM PST by nuconvert
Burt Bacharach's daughter commits suicide
Fri Jan 5, 2006
The only child of pop songwriter Burt Bacharach and actress Angie Dickinson has committed suicide after a lifetime struggling with a form of autism, a spokeswoman for the former couple said on Friday.
Nikki Bacharach, 40, died "quietly and peacefully" at her home in the northern Los Angeles municipality of Thousand Oaks on Thursday night, a statement said.
The spokeswoman declined to specify the cause of death.
She was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome following her premature birth in 1966, and her father recounted her struggles that year in the song "Nikki." Sufferers often have obsessive routines and extreme sensitivity to sounds, smells and tastes.
Her parents, who divorced in 1980, had no other children together.
Bacharach, 78, who with Hal David composed such songs as "What the World Needs Now Is Love" and "Alfie," has three children from subsequent marriages.
Dickinson, 75, is probably best known for her role as sultry Sgt. Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson in the 1970s cop show "Police Woman."
You're right.....the rumor was with JFK, and not Clinton....
I'm really getting old - and trying to project all my hate toward Clinton....
Was there every anything other than vicious gossip tying Angie and JFK (the horny) to each other?
Semper Fi
Bacharach-Dickinson Daughter Dies
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Nikki Bacharach, daughter of Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson, committed suicide, the songwriter and actress said in a statement Friday.
Nikki Bacharach, 40, suffered from Asperger's Disorder, a form of autism. She killed herself Thursday night at her condo, said Linda Dozoretz, a spokeswoman for the family.
"She quietly and peacefully committed suicide to escape the ravages to her brain brought on by Asperger's," the statement said.
Nikki Bacharach died of suffocation using a plastic bag and helium, said Mike Feiler of the Ventura County coroner's office.
Born prematurely in 1966, Lea Nikki Bacharach studied geology at Cal Lutheran University, but could not pursue a career in the field because of poor eyesight.
"She loved kitties, and earthquakes, glacial calving, meteor showers, science, blue skies and sunsets, and Tahiti," the statement said.
Nikki Bacharach was the only child of Burt Bacharach, 77, and Dickinson, 75, who were married from 1965 to 1981.
It was the second marriage for both Bacharach, the Oscar-winning composer of "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," and "What the World Needs Now is Love," and Dickinson, star of the film "Dress to Kill" and the TV show "Police Woman."
Bacharach has three children from other marriages.
A service of the Associated Press(AP)
May she RIP.
Not sure... In the 70's I knew a director in Manhattan who seemed to know which actresses JFK had arranged to meet up with whenever Jackie was out-of-town. It was behind-the-scenes gossip in those days about all of them. Dickenson might have known him in the 50's/pre-Presidency. She's been around awhile. Any one know?
If it were a sleeping pill overdose you could rest assured
I guess it wasn't.
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