Mickey Rooney Jr., the eldest son of Hollywood star Mickey Rooney who went on to become an original Mouseketeer, musician and actor, has died.
He was 77. Rooney Jr.’s death was announced by Paul Peterson, the former actor and founder of the advocacy group A Minor Consideration.The 76-year-old, who posted the news on Facebook, did not specify a cause of death. "Mickey Rooney Jr.
peacefully passed away this morning in Arizona," Peterson wrote on Saturday. "For the past many years, he lived with and was in the care of Chrissie Brown and her family.
I first met Mickey, the oldest of nine siblings sired by his famous father when he and Timmy were hired by Disney to be Mouseketeers in 1955.
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