Eleanor Coppola, matriarch of a filmmaking family, dies aged 87

Eleanor Coppola, matriarch of a filmmaking family, dies aged 87
An undated portrait released by the Coppola family of Eleanor Coppola (Chad Keig/Courtesy of the Coppola family/AP)

Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s best-known films and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died aged 87.

She died on Friday surrounded by family at home in Rutherford, California, her family announced in a statement. No cause of death was given.

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