Newton to be buried in Berlin

Acclaimed photographer Helmut Newton, who died earlier this year in a Los Angeles car crash, will be buried in the same cemetery as Marlene Dietrich in his native Berlin, his widow said Friday.

No date has yet been set for the burial at the leafy Friedenau cemetery, in the Schoeneberg district where Newton was born, June Newton told reporters.

“He might as well go home,” she said of her choice. Newton will be buried two graves away from Dietrich, another Berlin native who shunned the city for much of her life. Newton had fled Nazi Germany in 1938 to escape persecution as a Jew.

Newton died Jan. 23 after apparently losing control of his car and crashing into a wall. He was 83.