Raquel Welch was gone to us. She was an excellent actress as well as a global sex icon. TMZ recently learned.
Raquel’s family has reported that she passed away this morning following a brief illness.
Welch’s early stardom was sparked by his “back-to-back performances of “Fantastic Voyage” and “One Million Years B.C.” in 1966.
Even though Welch” didn’t say much in “B.C.,” her provocative deerskin swimsuit made her a sexual legend overnight.
Welch’s career took off after that and she went on to become one of the biggest “female stars of the 1960s and 1970s. She won multiple awards for” her role in “The Three Musketeers” in 1974, “including a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy”.
Empire magazine named Welch “one of the “100 Sexiest Stars in Film History” in” 1995. In Playboy’s list of the “100 Sexiest Stars of the 20th Century,” she came in third.
She sang “I’m a Woman” with Cher during a 1975 visit on “The Cher Show”.
Raquel had four husbands: Richard Palmer (1999–2004), Andre Weinfeld (1980–1990), Patrick Curtis (1967–1972), and James Welch (1959–1964). Her husbands were Tahnee and Damon Welch, and between them, they produced two kids.
Raquel was eighty-two years old.
RIP