"Glee" co-stars Lea Michele and Cory Monteith had been dating for more than a year when he passed away in July 2013. Here, the real-life and on-screen couple appear in the third-season premiere of the hit Fox musical comedy-drama series.
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"Glee" co-stars Lea Michele and Cory Monteith had been dating for more than a year when he passed away in July 2013. Here, the real-life and on-screen couple appear in the third-season premiere of the hit Fox musical comedy-drama series.
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Fashion designer L'Wren Scott and Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger were companions for more than a decade. After Scott's suicide on March 17, Jagger released a statement on his website: "I am still struggling to understand how my lover and best friend could end her life in this tragic way. We spent many wonderful years together and had made a great life for ourselves. She had great presence and her talent was much admired, not least by me."
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Fashion designer L'Wren Scott and Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger were companions for more than a decade. After Scott's suicide on March 17, Jagger released a statement on his website: "I am still struggling to understand how my lover and best friend could end her life in this tragic way. We spent many wonderful years together and had made a great life for ourselves. She had great presence and her talent was much admired, not least by me."
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"Fast & Furious" star Paul Walker, seen here with his girlfriend Jasmine Pilchard-Gosnell, died in a car crash in November 2013 at the age of 40. The pair had been dating for seven years. Walker named his 15-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, Meadow, as the sole beneficiary of his estate.
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"Fast & Furious" star Paul Walker, seen here with his girlfriend Jasmine Pilchard-Gosnell, died in a car crash in November 2013 at the age of 40. The pair had been dating for seven years. Walker named his 15-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, Meadow, as the sole beneficiary of his estate.
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Interior designer and television personality Nate Berkus (seen here with Oprah Winfrey) lost his partner, <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oprah.com%2Foprahshow%2FIn-Memoriam-Remembering-Oprah-Show-Guests" target="_blank" target="_blank">Fernando Bengoechea</a>, during a 2004 tsunami while the pair was vacationing in Sri Lanka. Berkus is now engaged to Jeremiah Brent. The pair appears in a new Banana Republic campaign featuring real couples.
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Interior designer and television personality Nate Berkus (seen here with Oprah Winfrey) lost his partner, Fernando Bengoechea, during a 2004 tsunami while the pair was vacationing in Sri Lanka. Berkus is now engaged to Jeremiah Brent. The pair appears in a new Banana Republic campaign featuring real couples.
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John Travolta dated actress Diana Hyland, who was 18 years his senior, for more than a year in the late 1970s. Hyland died in Travolta's arms of cancer at the age of 41. "I gave her great joy the last months of her life," Travolta <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.people.com%2Fpeople%2Farchive%2Farticle%2F0%2C%2C20068072%2C00.html" target="_blank" target="_blank">told People Magazine after her death</a>. "I always feel she is with me -- I mean her intentions are. Diana always wanted the world for me in every possible way."
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John Travolta dated actress Diana Hyland, who was 18 years his senior, for more than a year in the late 1970s. Hyland died in Travolta's arms of cancer at the age of 41. "I gave her great joy the last months of her life," Travolta told People Magazine after her death. "I always feel she is with me -- I mean her intentions are. Diana always wanted the world for me in every possible way."
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<a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2013%2F12%2F21%2Fshowbiz%2Fryan-oneal-react%2F">"Charlie's Angels" star Farrah Fawcett and actor Ryan O'Neal</a> had an on-again, off-again relationship that spanned more than 30 years. They never married and were together at Fawcett's time of death in 2009.
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"Charlie's Angels" star Farrah Fawcett and actor Ryan O'Neal had an on-again, off-again relationship that spanned more than 30 years. They never married and were together at Fawcett's time of death in 2009.
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Meryl Streep glances at actor John Cazale in "The Deer Hunter." Streep and Cazale were in a relationship at the time of his bone cancer diagnosis in 1976. He passed away in 1978.
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Meryl Streep glances at actor John Cazale in "The Deer Hunter." Streep and Cazale were in a relationship at the time of his bone cancer diagnosis in 1976. He passed away in 1978.
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