Hollywood icon Hepburn passes on

The screen world was today mourning the death at 96 of Katharine Hepburn, one of the great Hollywood icons and winner of four Oscars.

Cynthia McFadden, the executor of Hepburn’s estate, said the actress died yesterday at 2.50pm local time (7.50pm Irish time) at her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA.