Actress Raquel Welch has died at age 82 after a “brief illness”. READ MORE:* Raquel Welch's former mansion listed for $8.1 million* Raquel Welch named the hottest bikini body of all time, trumping today's starletsThe Chicago-native was born Jo Raquel Tejeda to an aeronautical engineer father from Bolivia. After a string of small roles, Welch had her big acting breakthrough in 1966, when Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years B.C. She had two children with husband James Welch, Damon, 63, and Latanne ‘Tahnee’, 61, before the couple divorced in 1964. She later married her agent Curtis from 1967-1972, before wedding French-American film producer André Weinfeld from 1980-1990, and finally marrying pizzeria owner Richard Palmer from 1999-2004.

Source: Stuff February 16, 2023 01:39 UTC