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Tabloid Retrospective Repeats Tragic Account of Romy Schneider’s Final Years

The new tabloid pieces recycle decades-old reporting without offering new evidence.

Overview

  • OK! Magazin republishes a retrospective, citing Die neue Frau, that revisits Romy Schneider’s family tragedies and death.
  • It recounts the July 5, 1981 accident in which her 14-year-old son David was injured while climbing a gate, taken to a hospital, and died despite surgery.
  • The coverage notes Schneider was found dead in her Paris apartment on May 29, 1982, with the death certificate reported as listing heart failure.
  • Speculation about suicide or substance use is repeated, and a separate OK! article claims an overdose as the precise cause, which conflicts with the heart-failure entry.
  • The pieces emphasize Schneider’s profound grief, her devotion to her son that influenced career choices, and earlier trauma including ex-husband Harry Meyen’s 1979 suicide.