Actress and comedian Phyllis Diller has died at the age of 95 on Monday, the family tells Eyewitness News.
The family said she died peacefully in her sleep.
Diller suffered a heart attack in 1999 and was later fitted with a pacemaker.
Phyllis began her career in 1952 — and rose to fame with her TV specials alongside Bob Hope in the 1960s.
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