American actress and international sex symbol Raquel Welch has passed away at the age of 82 following a short illness, her business manager has confirmed.
Steve Sauer said that she passed away in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning.
Steve Sauer said that her career spanned over 50 years starring in over 30 movies and 50 television series and appearances.
He said that the Golden Globe winner, in more recent years, was involved in a very successful line of wigs and that Raquel leaves behind her two children, son Damon Welch and daughter Tahnee Welch.
Raquel Welch rose to stardom after her back-to-back roles in Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years BC in 1966, breaking the mould of the ‘blonde bombshell’.
From there, she appeared in a slew of films and television shows and gained a Golden Globe for her part as Constance de Bonacieux in the 1974 remake of The Three Musketeers.
A newspaper outlet spotted the star in July at a Beverly Hills nail salon, J&J Beauty Lounge, and enchanting as ever, she was dressed in gold hoop earrings and a white top with black pants, and seen patiently reading magazines in the waiting room until her beautician was ready.
Before her July outing, low-key Raquel Welch, who seldom ventured out in public was last photographed by a newspaper outlet in September 2021.
That marked the first time she’d been spotted in two years.
Tweeted actor Paul Feig said that this was so sad, and he said that he had the great pleasure of performing with Raquel Welch when he was a regular on Sabrina The Teenage Witch and that she was amazing. He also said that she was kind, funny and a true superstar whom he was pretty much in love with for most of his childhood, and that we’d lost a true icon.
Actor Titus Welliver, 60, tweeted that Raquel Welch had departed and that she was an iconic beauty and actor.
The estate of Ray Harryhausen, a British American animator who worked on some of the most celebrated movies of the 1960s, including One Million Years BC, and died in 2013 aged 92, voiced their condolences.
They said that they were saddened to hear about the death of legendary actress Raquel Welch, who starred as Loana in Ray Harryhausen’s 1966 ‘One Million Years B.C.
Raquel Welch was such a stunning and adorable woman, with a fantastic sense of wit as well.
She was a star from the days when a sex symbol was still somehow wholesome, not like the show it all nobodies that fill the magazines these days, and most of the greats are now fading, it’s very sad, and we will never get them back.
She was an absolutely stunning woman with the most fantastic hourglass figure. They definitely don’t make them like that anymore.
She was not only beautiful but also an extremely classy woman. She was a sex symbol but she did it with style – there was nothing vulgar about her. She was indeed, the last of a dying breed, and she knew how to strike that flawless balance between classy, glamorous, graceful and sensual.
She really did know who she was. Beautiful and talented with a brain and common sense. Not a lot of that in Hollywood these days.
Raquel Welch and Elizabeth Taylor were two of the most naturally beautiful women ever, and add Grace Kelly in there too, and it’s sad that all these beautiful women are gone.
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