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Ron Galella, Controversial Forefather of Paparazzi, Dies at 91

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Sasha Urban editorRon Galella, the paparazzi photographer who pioneered the controversial art of candid celebrity imagery, died Saturday at his home in Montville, N.J.

He was 91.The New York Times said he died of congestive heart failure.Galella was best-known for his years-long pursuit of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, whom he photographed relentlessly throughout the ’70s.

One of his photos of Onassis, with windswept hair outside her Manhattan apartment, is widely regarded as one of the most famous paparazzi images of all time.

They went to court in 1972, with a judge declaring that Galella must stay 25 feet away from Onassis and 30 feet from her children.

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