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Frank Sinatra's First Wife Dies at 101

Singer Nancy Sinatra walks on stage during Sinatra 100 - An All-Star Grammy Concert in Las Vegas, Nevada December 2, 2015. REUTERS/Steve Marcus
Singer Nancy Sinatra walks on stage during Sinatra 100 - An All-Star Grammy Concert in Las Vegas, Nevada December 2, 2015. REUTERS/Steve Marcus
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Frank Sinatra's First Wife Dies at 101

Singer Nancy Sinatra walks on stage during Sinatra 100 - An All-Star Grammy Concert in Las Vegas, Nevada December 2, 2015. REUTERS/Steve Marcus
Singer Nancy Sinatra walks on stage during Sinatra 100 - An All-Star Grammy Concert in Las Vegas, Nevada December 2, 2015. REUTERS/Steve Marcus

Nancy Sinatra first wife of star Frank Sinatra passed away Friday at the age of 101, her daughter tweeted.

“My mother passed away peacefully tonight at the age of 101,” the younger Nancy Sinatra, 78, wrote on her official Twitter page.

“She was a blessing and the light of my life. God speed, Momma. Thank you for everything.”

Nancy and Frank, both New Jersey natives, were married for 12 years, according to Reuters.

They had three children and divorced in 1951.

The pair remained close until Frank Sinatra’s death in 1998 at the age of 82, after a heart attack.

The late Nancy Sinatra never remarried and lived a quiet life in Beverly Hills, California and focused on charity work, Reuters reported.

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UK Designer’s Long-lost Coat Found after 40 Years

Jean Pallant said she is ‘over the moon’ one of her long-lost designs was found in an Oxfam charity shop (Seb Durocher/Oxfam/PA)
Jean Pallant said she is ‘over the moon’ one of her long-lost designs was found in an Oxfam charity shop (Seb Durocher/Oxfam/PA)
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UK Designer’s Long-lost Coat Found after 40 Years

Jean Pallant said she is ‘over the moon’ one of her long-lost designs was found in an Oxfam charity shop (Seb Durocher/Oxfam/PA)
Jean Pallant said she is ‘over the moon’ one of her long-lost designs was found in an Oxfam charity shop (Seb Durocher/Oxfam/PA)

A British fashion designer has revealed one of her long-lost designs has been found in an Oxfam charity shop - nearly 40 years after it went missing from the designer’s warehouse, The Independent reported.

When designer Jean Pallant was told her one-of-a-kind coat had turned up in a donation bag at the Oxfam shop in Mill Hill, London, she was “very excited,” the newspaper said.

“I was absolutely over the moon, really. It was very sweet of the person who discovered it to believe that it was something important,” she was quoted as saying.

“It’s like seeing a child. It’s lovely. I know every single square inch of it, and I’m absolutely amazed that it looks so new, and it feels new. Everything about it looks exactly as it did when it went missing.”

Oxfam’s Mill Hill shop manager Marina Ikey-Botchway said she could tell the coat was a priceless item when the donation came in.

She made the discovery among a donation of high street fast fashion clothes.

“The very first second I saw the coat I knew this was something special, so I checked the label and after a quick Google found Jean’s email,” she said.

Pallant, who was part of the 1960s cultural revolution and one half of a husband-and-wife team, made the orange coat with large buttons on her kitchen table in 1988 and it featured in a Sunday Telegraph article that year.

When she went to retrieve some pieces from her warehouse nearly four decades ago, she felt “sick” to discover that the coat had gone missing along with five other pieces she had designed with her husband Martin, which still have not been found.

“It doesn’t look as if it’s ever been worn, so I’m thrilled about that as well. It doesn’t look like a rag. It doesn’t even smell of must, which is weird. I don’t know where it’s been for those years, but it’s obviously been well cared for,” said Pallant.