Elizabeth Tilberis

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Born Elizabeth Jane Kelly (of Manx and English extraction) in 1947 in the UK.

She was the editor of the British version of Vogue magazine before she immigrated to New York in 1992, and took over the helm of fashion institution Harper's Bazaar. A year later, Ms. Tilberis was diagnosed with ovarian cancer -- a disease she publicly blamed on her use of fertility drugs in the 1970s -- and spent the next seven years at Bazaar balancing chemotherapy and revitalizing the 125-year-old magazine (as per [link]). She served as President of the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund from 1997 until her death in 1999.

She escorted the late Diana, Princess of Wales on one of her last visits to New York, even though Tilberis herself was nearly bald from chemotherapy treatments for her cancer.

She died in 1999 at age 51 at home in New York City, and was survived by her husband, Andrew Tilberis, and their two sons.

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