Sheilah Graham Dies in Florida

Sheilah Graham, the legendary Hollywood gossip columnist who with Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper formed what came to be known as the “Unholy Trio,” has died in a hospital here.

She was in her late 70s or early 80s. A funeral home spokesman said today that Graham died Thursday. No cause of death was given. Graham, born in London’s East End in 1904, lived a life as controversial as the people she wrote about. She had a love affair with novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald for the last three years of his life, and once lamented: “I won’t be remembered for my writing. I’ll be remembered as Scott’s mistress.” Her autobiography, “Beloved Infidel,” was later made into a movie starring Deborah Kerr and Gregory Peck.