Lawsuit: Doherty has cancer

Lawsuit: Doherty has cancer

LOS ANGELES

Shannen Doherty is battling breast cancer that worsened during a lapse in her health insurance caused by her former business managers, the actress claimed in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.

The former “Beverly Hills, 90210” star claims that her former business managers and accountants mismanaged her money and allowed her health insurance to lapse last year.

Doherty, 44, received the diagnosis in March, and her doctors have said earlier treatment might have stopped its spread, the lawsuit states.

Yvonne Craig, Batgirl, dies at 78

NEW YORK

Yvonne Craig, who played the sexy, crime-fighting Batgirl in the 1960s TV hit “Batman,” has died. She was 78.

Craig died Monday at her Los Angeles home from complications from breast cancer, her family said.

She began her career as a ballet dancer, the youngest member of The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with which she toured for three years. Then she was discovered by Hollywood, appearing in a 1958 episode of “Perry Mason” and in the 1959 feature “The Young Land.”

After that, she won dozens of roles in TV shows, as well as co-starring in two 1960s Elvis Presley films, “It Happened at the World’s Fair” and “Kissin’ Cousins.”

But she was best known as Batgirl (and her alter ego, librarian Barbara Gordon, Commissioner Gordon’s daughter) in the 1967-68 season of ABC’s “Batman.”

Associated Press