Beatrice Arthur

Beatrice Arthur, the larger-than-life actress who scored on Broadway as the original matchmaker in Fiddler on the Roof and the hard-drinking actress in Mame before she went on to star in the groundbreaking ’70s TV series Maude and, in the ’80s, the beloved sitcom The Golden Girls, died early Saturday morning. She was 86.

The Travolta family

John Travolta and Kelly Preston are holding a private memorial service for their 16-year-old son, Jett, who died on Jan. 2.

The funeral will be held in the gated community in Ocala, Fla., where the Travolta family lives in an $8 million home, the Associated Press reports.

Travolta, 54, and Preston, 46, have spoken out only once since the death of their son, saying, “Jett was the most wonderful son that two parents could ever ask for and lit up the lives of everyone he encountered. We are heartbroken that our time with him was so brief.”

Macaulay Culkin’s sister, Dakota, was struck and killed by a car in Los Angeles this week, police confirm.

The 29-year-old stepped in front of a car in West L.A. just before 11 p.m. on Tuesday and was rushed to UCLA hospital with massive head trauma, according to LAPD spokesman Richard French. She died the following day.

“The driver stopped, rendered aid, and identified himself as required by law,” said French. “Detectives determined that the driver was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol and that no crime was committed.”

Jennifer Hudson and her mom

A public memorial service for Jennifer Hudson’s slain mother, brother and nephew is planned for Sunday at the South Side Chicago church where the Oscar-winner grew up singing.

“The Hudson family welcomes anyone who wishes to attend and pay their respects to these three beloved members of the Chicago community,” reads a statement from Hudson’s rep.

Neither the singer-actress nor her sister, Julia, the mother of slain 7-year-old Julian King, are expected to attend the public observance.

Richard Blackwell

Richard Blackwell – the self-important bad boy of fashion whose nearly five decades’ worth of annual Worst-Dressed Lists could be counted upon to provide some of the meanest laughs of every new year – died Sunday of complications from an intestinal infection, said publicist Harlan Boll. Blackwell was 86.

DJ AM

DJ AM is among the mourners who attended a memorial service in Los Angeles Monday for Chris “Lil’ Chris” Baker, who died in the Learjet crash that killed four and wounded two on Sept. 20 in Columbia, South Carolina.

DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, arrived in a limousine to pay respects to Baker, 29. More than 300 people turned out to honor Baker, and many friends stood up to share their memories of him at the memorial service, which lasted two hours.

Paul Newman

Paul Newman, a screen hero for more than half a century and the head of a philanthropic food empire for the past 25 years, has died, it was announced Saturday. He was 83.

Surrounded by his family and close friends at his farmhouse near Westport, Conn., Newman succumbed Friday after a long battle with cancer, according to a statement from publicist Jeff Sanderson.

Jerry Reed

Country guitarist, songwriter, singer and Smokey and the Bandit sidekick Jerry Reed died Monday of emphysema. He was 71.

The Atlanta-born Grammy winner, who never lost his Georgia drawl, backed Elvis Presley and Waylon Jennings on guitar before emerging on his own in the late ’60s.

Within a decade, he had a string of radio hits such as “When You’re Hot, You’re Hot” and “Amos Moses” and “East Bound and Down” from the Bandit” movies, in which he played trucker Cledus “Snowman” Snow.