Michael Blosil, 18, a son of Marie Osmond’s, has died, the entertainer said.
Osmond said in a statement Saturday that her family is devastated by the “tragic loss.” She did not provide details on the death.
Entertainment Tonight reported that Blosil jumped to his death Friday night from a Los Angeles apartment building. Officers responded to an apparent suicide jump, but the victim was not identified Saturday, Los Angeles police Officer Gregory Baek said.
Blosil reportedly left a note that referred to a lifelong battle with depression.
Michael is one of Osmond’s five adopted children. She also has three other children from two marriages.
Mable Hoffman, 88, a food stylist and home economist, took on the job of developing the recipes and writing the pioneering book for recipients of a popular early-1970s gift — the newly invented electric slow-cooker.
Hoffman’s test kitchen amounted to 20 slow cookers lined up in her Solana Beach, Calif., home. The resulting “Crockery Cookery” (1975) was an instant best seller.
It was “the right book” at “the right moment,” The New York Times declared in 1976, adding that 20 million Americans who had bought slow cookers “were eager for tips.”
Hoffman, who had Alzheimer’s disease, died Feb. 9 in Del Mar, Calif., said Jan Robertson, her daughter.
William E. Gordon, 92, an electrical engineer who conceived, designed, built and operated the world’s largest radio telescope, which has been described as Earth’s ear to outer space, died Feb. 16 at his home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 92.
Rice University, where Gordon served as professor, dean and provost, announced the death.
The telescope, a dish the size of 26 football fields, occupies a small valley in Puerto Rico. It is big enough to emit the strongest radio waves and receive the weakest ones.
Gordon named the telescope and its observatory after a nearby town. The Arecibo Observatory has been used to make scores of landmark discoveries in atmospheric physics and astronomy.
