Dr. Ruth Westheimer — the groundbreaking sex therapist ... on programs like Sexually Speaking and The Dr. Ruth Show — has ...

NEW YORK — Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist who became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics, has died.

she died at home in New York City. Below, read PEOPLE’s feature from 2019 with Westheimer from the archive. Aaron Poole/E! Entertainment/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Back in 1980, when Dr. Ruth ...

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Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist who became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics, has died. She was 96.