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The Fontainbleau hotel in Miami Beach, Aug. 6, 2008. Stephen Muss, a real estate developer who died on Aug. 23, 2025 at 97, bought it for $28 million in 1978, invested well over $100 million in renovations, enlisted the Hilton chain to manage it and, in 2005, sold it for $165 million. (Barbara P. Fernandez/The New York Times/Courtesy)

Stephen Muss, Jewish developer who helped revive Miami Beach, dies at 97

September 5, 2025 at 10:38 a.m.

Muss was an active philanthropist. In 1981, a high school in Israel, which has served thousands of students from abroad, was renamed for his father. Muss served as the school’s...

Marthe Cohn, shown here at age 94, is photographed with the many prestigious medals given to her for her heroic service as a Jewish spy in Nazi Germany at a cafe in Moraga, California, on Friday, March 13, 2015. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group/Courtesy)

Marthe Cohn, a wartime Jewish nurse who spied for the French, dies at 105

June 17, 2025 at 10:47 a.m.

Marthe Cohn died May 20 at her home in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, in Los Angeles County, where she had settled with her American husband, a doctor, long after her...

New York real estate magnate Marshall Rose attends The New York Public Library's Annual Library Lions Gala in 2006. (Evan Agostini/Getty Images)

Marshall Rose, who helped revive two N.Y. institutions, dies at 88

February 27, 2025 at 4:19 p.m.

Marshall Rose, who was married to actress Candice Bergen, was instrumental in reviving many New York City intuitions, including the the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue. He died...

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