Helen Gurley Brown

Longtime Cosmopolitan magazine editor Helen Gurley Brown died on Aug. 13, 2012, after a brief hospitalization. She was 90.

Photo: Helen Gurley Brown attends the opening reception for the Israeli Film Festival at the headquarters for the Directors Guild of America on Feb. 23, 2006, in New York.

Pictures: Helen Gurley Brown, 1922-2012

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