Ruthless! Writer Joel Paley Dies at 69, Only Weeks After the Death of Husband Marvin Laird by Hayley Levitt

Joel Paley, best known as the book writer, lyricist and director of the hit off-Broadway musical Ruthless!, died on January 11 in Milford, Connecticut. According to the New York Times, his sister Barbara Paley Cohen confirmed his death, but did not communicate a cause. He was 69. Paley was born on October 6, 1955, in Philadelphia, and died only six weeks after his husband and collaborator Marvin Laird, who pas…

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