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FILE - Robert Blake reacts after hearing the verdicts read in his murder trial for the death of his wife Bonny Lee Bakley in Los Angeles, March 16, 2005. Blake, the Emmy award-winning performer who went from acclaim for his acting to notoriety when he was tried and acquitted of murdering his wife, died Thursday, March 9, 2023, at age 89. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

New Jersey native Robert Blake, actor acquitted in wife's killing, dies at 89

An Emmy-winning actor whose career triumphs were later overshadowed by a trial in which he was acquitted of murdering his wife, Robert Blake has died at age 89.

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