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| US comedy legend, Jerry Lewis, renowned for his stage partnership with Dean Martin, starring in the ‘Nutty Professor’ and hosting the Labor Day telethon, has died in Las Vegas at the age of 91. | |
| "Legendary entertainer Jerry Lewis passed away peacefully today of natural causes at 91 at his home with family by his side," his loved ones said in a statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. | |
| Lewis died at 9:15am Sunday, his agent confirmed, according to Variety and other media. | |
| He is survived by his second wife SanDee Pitnick and their adopted daughter. | |
| Apart from the Martin and Lewis sketches, Jerry Lewis was propelled to fame through the films 'The Bellboy' (1960) and 'The Nutty Professor' (1963), making him Hollywood's highest paid actor at the time. | |
| One of Lewis' most commendable efforts was his annual Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) telethon, which he created and hosted from 1966 until 2010. During those years, the initiative raised some $2.45 billion dollars for MDA, and even got Lewis nominated for the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize. |