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  1. Jul 29, 2024 · Gail Lumet Buckley, who chronicled Black family history and was the daughter of Hollywood’s first Black star, died July 18, 2024, of heart failure in Santa Monica, California.

  2. Jul 29, 2024 · Elizabeth Bell. July 29, 2024 | Friend. 1. Gail Buckley passed away on July 18, 2024 at the age of 86. The obituary was featured in Legacy Remembers on July 29, 2024.

    • December 21, 1937
    • July 18, 2024
  3. Jul 31, 2024 · July 31, 2024 at 6:10 p.m. EDT. Gail Lumet Buckley, a writer whose books combined history and memoir to highlight Black achievement in the United States, often through the prism of her own family ...

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  4. Jul 30, 2024 · Born Gail Horne Jones on Dec. 21, 1937, in Pittsburgh, Pa., Lumet Buckley grew up in New York (well, Brooklyn) and Los Angeles. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1959.

  5. Aug 1, 2024 · She died last month at the age of 86. Gail Lumet Buckley grew up in New York, Los Angeles and Europe and graduated from Harvard. She worked at Life magazine before marrying the celebrated film director Sidney Lumet, with whom she had two daughters. Their marriage ended in divorce after 14 years. She later remarried.

  6. Jul 28, 2024 · Jul 28, 2024. Gail Lumet Buckley, who dedicated her professional to chronicling Black American history, has passed away at the age of 86. As the daughter of entertainer Lena Horne and her first husband, entrepreneur Louis Jones, Buckley lived the life of the Black upperclass. Much of her young life was covered in publications like Ebony and Jet.

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  8. Death. Gail Lumet Buckley died on July 18, 2024, at her home in Santa Monica, California, aged 86, from heart failure. She was survived by her two daughters (from her first marriage), Jenny and Amy, as well as two grandchildren, including Jake Cannavale. [1]