Peter Falk: The daughter of the unforgettable interpreter of Columbo committed suicide at the age of 60 years.

There are characters that mark several generations. Lieutenant Columbo is one of them. Peter Falk played him for 35 years. A role of a lifetime! And yet, some details of this series may still escape you, like the famous inspector’s first name. Peter Falk will be posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 25, 2013. Because the American actor passed away in 2011, due to acute pneumonia. Alzheimer’s disease and dementia were also diagnosed in the 2000s.

During his life, Peter Falk married two women. First Alyce Mayo in 1960, whom he met at Syracuse University. With this childhood love, he adopted two daughters: Jacqueline (nicknamed Jackie) and Catherine. He then gave marriage another chance in 1977 with Shera Danese, who played a murderer in the Columbo series. A second wife who, in fact, distanced his two daughters from the actor’s life by becoming his guardian.

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Who was Jacqueline Falk, the daughter of Peter Falk (Columbo) who committed suicide at 60 years old? In this late afternoon, a sad news was reported by TMZ. According to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office documents, Jacqueline Falk, Peter Falk’s daughter, hung herself on Monday, April 27 in a residence in Los Angeles. An investigation has been opened. Authorities currently do not know if the 60-year-old woman left a suicide note. Jacqueline Falk seemed to live a life away from the spotlight.

Her younger sister, Catherine, has been involved in advocating for families, according to People. She relied on her own experience in the battle of these two sisters to obtain guardianship of their father. However, Peter Falk’s widow became his sole heiress. According to our colleagues, Catherine Falk has testified several times about the difficulty of maintaining contact with her father at that time.

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What does Catherine, Peter Falk’s second daughter, accuse his widow Shera Danese of? According to Catherine Falk, Peter Falk was isolated at the end of his life, and his last wife would be responsible for it. She shared her own experience in the documentary “The Battle for Britney: fans, cash and guardianship”, where she talked about the control Shera Danese allegedly had over her father. “She didn’t love us. We weren’t even allowed to enter their home if she was present, when we were kids,” she said on camera. She claims she was even banned from attending her father’s funeral. With the sudden death of her sister Jackie, here is a new painful challenge to face…