In honor of Estelle Getty, who passed away yesterday, Lifetime Television will be airing a Golden Girls marathon this Friday, July 25th, from 12-5 PM. The 10 episodes aired will all focus on Sophia, Getty's character, and the last one aired will be v more

Estelle Getty, who played Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls , passed away this morning at the age of 84. She had been suffering from dementia for the past few years. Read more and watch a montage of Getty's scenes on TV Guide .

Rue McClanahan, best known and loved as the sassy Southern sex-crazed Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls, died this morning at the age of 76. Her manager told People that McClanahan died around 1 am after suffering a massive stroke and that she was sur more

Beatrice Arthur, the larger-than-life actress who scored on Broadway as the original matchmaker in Fiddler on the Roof and the hard-drinking actress in Mame before she went on to star in the groundbreaking '70s TV series Maude and, in the '80s, more

23 February 2006 (WENN) The Golden Girls star and animal rights activist Betty White has been honored by the Los Angeles Zoo for her commitment to animals. The Emmy award-winning actress was named an Ambassador to Animals at a ceremony in Los Angeles on M more

6 February 2003 (WENN) Former Golden Girls actress Rue McClanahan is at the center of a legal wrangle - after being sued for $45 million for alleged fraud. Her ex-boyfriend Dirk Summers is suing her in relation to an aborted project in 1997, where McClana more

25 August 2004 (WENN) Golden Girls star Bea Arthur sparked a security scare at Boston's Logan International Airport earlier this week when she tried to board a flight with a pocketknife in her handbag. The actress, 81, was about to board a Cape Air f more