Madam Marie, a fortuneteller and figure of rock ‘n’ roll mythology thanks to Bruce Springsteen, has died. She was in her mid-90s.
Sally Castello told the Asbury Park (N.J.) Press that her great-grandmother Marie Castello died Friday. The psychic reader and adviser began telling fortunes on the Asbury Park Boardwalk in New Jersey in the 1930s.
Madam Marie became famous in 1973 when Spring steen paid homage to her in the song “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy).” His lyric, which cemented her fame: “Did you hear, the cops finally busted Madam Marie for tellin’ fortunes better than they do.”
Simone Ortega, 89, a Spanish chef and food writer, died Wednesday at a nursing home in Madrid, publishing company Alianza Editorial said.
The company said Ortega’s best-known book, “1,080 Recetas de Cocina,” (“1,080 Kitchen Recipes”) sold about 3 million copies and went through 49 printings since it was published in 1972.
Ortega came from a family of French origin but was born in Spain’s Catalonia region. She won top culinary awards in Spain and France.
Garven F. Hudgins, 84, a former Associated Press foreign correspondent who covered the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, died June 23 at a Potomac, Md., nursing home, said his son, Rob Hudgins.
He joined AP in 1951 in New York and later served as a reporter and editor for the news service in London, Paris and Cairo, and as its bureau chief in Istanbul, Turkey. He covered high-profile topics such as the 1967 war between Egypt and Israel and Eichmann, whom Israel pursued, captured, tried and hanged in 1962.
Before joining AP, the 1949 Yale graduate served in World War II as part of the press corps.
