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Yvette Wilson dies of cancer at 48

NEW YORK

Yvette Wilson, a comic who was featured on the 1990s sitcom “Moesha” and its spinoff, “The Parkers,” has died.

Her manager, Holly Carter, says Wilson died of cervical cancer Thursday. Wilson was 48 and lived in Hollywood where Carter said she had managed a music label and worked in real estate in recent years.

Wilson portrayed Andell Wilkerson, owner of the popular hangout The Den on “Moesha.” The UPN sitcom starred the singer Brandy.

Wilson was a standup comic and was featured on “In Living Color.” She also appeared in the movies “Poetic Justice” and “House Party III.”

Streisand opens home for women’s health

MALIBU, Calif.

In an elegant white tent at her oceanfront Malibu compound, Barbra Streisand sang and former President Bill Clinton spoke to a crowd gathered to raise funds for women’s heart health.

Guests paid as much as $100,000 per couple to support the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center at the intimate fundraising dinner Thursday at the home Streisand shares with her husband, James Brolin.

The singer donated $10 million to create the research and treatment facility at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and solicited million-dollar donations from wealthy friends she called personally. Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone, NBC Universal chief Ron Meyer, designer Donna Karan and actors Josh Brolin (Streisand’s stepson) and Diane Lane were among the donors and guests.

Streisand said she was motivated to contribute to women’s heart health because she “can’t stand inequality, whether it’s about civil rights, gay rights or gender discrimination.”

Heart disease kills more women each year than all cancers combined, but most of the research on the disease for the past five decades has been conducted on men.

Rep: Lohan treated for exhaustion

LOS ANGELES

Lindsay Lohan’s publicist says the actress has been treated for dehydration and exhaustion after an overnight film shoot led producers to summon paramedics for the starlet.

Publicist Steve Honig says Lohan will likely return to the set of the Lifetime film “Liz and Dick” later Friday.

Fire officials confirmed they were summoned to a hotel in Marina del Rey on Friday morning around 10:15 a.m., but that they did not transport anyone to the hospital. They said they could not identify the patient.

Honig says Lohan has had a “grueling schedule” in recent days and took a nap Friday morning before shooting a scene. He says producers became concerned after she did not come out of her room when expected.

Lifetime declined comment.

Associated Press