Picasso’s wife commits suicide
NZPA—Reuter Cannes The widow of Pablo Picasso shot herself yesterday after years of depression following the artist’s death, according to the police. Jacqueline Picasso, aged • 60, the painter’s second wife, killed herself with a single bullet to the head at her country home in the village of Mougins, near Cannes. The police were called by her personal maid and found an automatic pistol at her side. A police spokesman said Mrs Picasso had suffered from bouts of severe depression since her husband’s death in 1973. Pablo Picasso, who married his model, Jacqueline Roque, in 1961 at the age of 79, died in the same 35-room home. “Her entourage say she never recovered from his death,” said the police spokesman. Mrs Picasso received one quarter of the artist’s legacy in 1977, after years of legal wrangling with five other heirs.
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