The younger generation probably won’t remember “The Golden Girls,” let alone know who they were. But for die hard Hollywood fans, they all know who The Golden Girls are and were. Probably one of the most hilarious characters on the show was Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV’s The Golden Girls.

The sarcastic diva has now left us as she died at age 84.

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Getty, who suffered from advanced dementia, died at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday at her Hollywood Boulevard home, said her son, Carl Gettleman of Santa Monica.

Estelle Getty Dies at 84

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