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Jean Harris, ‘Scarsdale Diet’ doctor killer, dies

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Jean Harris, the patrician girls’ school headmistress who spent 12 years in prison for the 1980 killing of her longtime lover, “Scarsdale Diet” doctor Herman Tarnower, in a case that rallied feminists and inspired television movies, has died. She was 89.

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