Marshall Rose, Candice Bergen‘s husband of more than 20 years, has died after a battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 88.
The news was confirmed in a New York Times obituary, which said Rose died “peacefully at home” on Saturday from Parkinson’s complications after “many years of extraordinary strength and resilience.” A representative for Bergen confirmed Rose’s death in an email to USA TODAY on Tuesday.
Rose was a real estate developer and philanthropist who in 1978 founded The Georgetown Company, which oversaw a renovation of New York’s Madison Square Garden and the development of the IAC Building in Manhattan, according to his obituary.
His philanthropic work also “shaped the landscape of New York City, including the pro bono development of three charter schools and service on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations,” the obit said. He served on the board of the New York Public Library for more than 30 years.
In lieu of flowers, the obituary said donations can be made in Rose’s honor to the New York Public Library, “an institution he loved so dearly.”
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Rose married Bergen, 78, in 2000. In a 2015 interview with CBS, the actress said that when she met Rose, she “just thought I trust this man completely.”
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Before marrying Bergen, Rose welcomed two children with his late wife Jill, according to his biography on The Georgetown Company’s website. The “Murphy Brown” actress was previously married to director Louis Malle from 1980 until his death from lymphoma in 1995. Malle and Bergen had a daughter together, Chloe.
Bergen opened up about her first husband’s death in her memoir “A Fine Romance.” She wrote in the book that Malle could not walk by himself and required full-time nursing at the end of his life, and she couldn’t “get over how rapidly he’d deteriorated.”
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“It really costs you to take care of someone who’s critically ill day after day,” Bergen wrote in the book. “You just want to escape. I was in a black anger. I think I felt that my life, which had always been blessed, had suddenly been hijacked by this completely other force. We were all trapped in it.”
In a conversation with Sandra Bullock for Interview magazine in 2015, Bergen said her memoir’s title “A Fine Romance” referred to her love for her daughter, as well as her “great love” for her first husband, “and then the luck of meeting my (second) husband, three years after Louis died.”
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