Blockbuster murder case's final epitaph: <strong>JEAN HARRIS</strong> who killed her lover HERMAN TARNOWER "The Scarsdale Diet Doctor" in 1980, has died at 89.
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Former school headmistress JEAN HARRIS who killed her lover, HERMAN TARNOWER aka "The Scarsdale Diet Doctor" in 1980, has died at 89.
In a blockbuster, headline making case that rallied feminists and inspired TV movies, Harris was found guilty of shooting Tarnower, the millionaire cardiologist famed for devising the Scarsdale Diet - a weight-loss book sensation of the 1970s named for the posh Westchester, N.Y. suburb where he practiced.
Harris maintained that the shooting of her ex-lover Tarnower, 69, was an accident.
Feminists and her lawyers charged that Harrs had been victimized by Tarnower and that he got her hooked on antidepressant medications after he dumped her for a younger much lover.