NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Jean Harris, the girls' school headmistress who spent 12 years in prison for the 1980 killing of her longtime lover, "Scarsdale Diet" doctor Herman Tarnower, has died. Harris was 89.
The case of the scorned woman who claimed the shooting of Tarnower, 69, was an accident, rallied feminists and inspired television movies. ...
Harris always maintained that she went armed to Tarnower's Westchester County estate in Purchase on March 10, 1980, to confront him over his womanizing and kill herself, but unintentionally shot him four times in a struggle over the gun. She later acknowledged at a parole hearing that she was "certainly guilty of something. I caused the man's death."
A jury convicted her of murder, and she was sentenced to 15 years to life. ...
She suffered two heart attacks while serving her sentence. She was granted clemency by then-Gov. Mario Cuomo when she underwent heart bypass surgery in December 1992 and was released on parole three weeks later. ...
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