Marshall Rose, Candice Bergen’s husband for over 20 years, died after a battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 88 years old.
The news was confirmed in an obituary in the New York Times. The news said he died “peacefully at home” on Saturday from Parkinsonson’s complications after “years of extraordinary strength and resilience.” A Bergen representative confirmed Rose’s death in an email to USA Today on Tuesday.
Rose is a real estate developer and philanthropist who founded the Georgetown Company in 1978, and oversees the development of New York’s Madison Square Garden and the IAC building in Manhattan, according to his obituary.
His philanthropy also “shaped the New York City landscape, including pro bono development for three charter schools and services on boards of many nonprofit organizations,” Obit said. He served on the New York Public Library’s Board of Directors for over 30 years.
Instead of flowers, the obituary said that donations could be made to the New York Public Library in honor of Rose.
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Rose married 78-year-old Bergen in 2000. In an interview with CBS in 2015, the actress said when she met Rose, “I thought I had total trust in this guy.”
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Before marrying Bergen, Rose welcomed his late wife Jill and two children, according to a biography on the Georgetown website. The Murphy Brown actress had been married to director Louismal since 1980, when she died of lymphoma between 1980 and 1995. Mal and Bergen had a daughter together.
Bergen revealed about her memoir “Amazing Romance” about the death of her first husband. She wrote in the book that Mal could not walk alone, needed full-time nursing at the end of his life, “didn’t get over how quickly he deteriorated.” .
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“It’s a real sacrifice to caring for someone seriously ill every day,” Bergen wrote in the book. “You just want to get away. I had a black rage. I think I felt that my life, which I had always been blessed, was suddenly hijacked by this completely other force. They were all trapped in it.”
In a conversation with Sandra Bullock for the 2015 interview magazine, Bergen said that her memoir title “A Fine Romance” was a source of love for her daughter and her first husband. Great love” and said he mentioned the good fortune to meet. Three years after Louis passed away, my (second) husband. ”