Linda Deutsch Dies: Longtime AP Courts Reporter Who Covered Manson, Simpson, Spector & More Was 80
deadline.comLinda Deutsch, the Los Angeles-based special correspondent for The Associated Press whose 50-year career with the news service included covering many of the most attention-getting trials in Hollywood history, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at her Los Angeles home surrounded by family and friends.
She was 80. Her death was announced by the AP. Deutsch had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2022. Although she underwent successful treatment at the time, the cancer returned this summer, according to the AP.
In her long career covering courts for the AP, Deutsch penned articles about such major criminal and civil cases as the murder trials of Charles Manson, O.J.
Simpson, Phil Spector and the Menendez Brothers. She covered trials involving Michael Jackson, Patty Hearst, and the police officers charged in the beating of motorist Rodney King, among many others.
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