Jean S. Harris Dead 89,Killer In Scarsdale Diet Doctor Case Dies At Age 89

	Jean S. Harris Dead 89,Killer In Scarsdale Diet Doctor Case Dies At Age 89 Jean S. Harris Dead 89,Killer In Scarsdale Diet Doctor Case Dies At Age 89 Jean S. Harris, who was convicted of killing the "Scarsdale Diet" doctor in 1980, died in an assisted-living facility in New Haven, Conn., Sunday. She was 89. Her death was confirmed by her son, James Harris. The former headmistress of an exclusive girls school, Harris was arrested on March 10, 1980, for fatally shooting her lover, Dr. Herman Tarnower, a Westchester cardiologist who penned the best-selling "The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet." The case, involving a love triangle, captivated the nation for more than a year, from Harris' arrest to her sentencing for second-degree murder on March 20, 1981. Harris maintained the slaying was accidental and that she meant to shoot herself. Her supporters saw Tarnower as an emotionally abusive bachelor who was having an affair with his office assistant, Lynne Tryforos, a woman half his age, during much of his relationship with Harris. After serving almost 12 years of a 15-year-to-life sentence, on Dec. 29, 1992, minutes before she was wheeled into open-heart surgery at the Westchester Medical Center, a gaunt and frightened Harris was told that then-Gov. Mario Cuomo had granted her bid for clemency for the murder. Her doctors told her the news as she was being prepared for quadruple-bypass surgery following the second heart attack she had while being held at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Cuomo had rejected two previous bids for clemency. "She <b>...</b>	From: UpdateNews13 Views: 0 0 ratings
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