In this task, you are given a sentence in the English language and your task is to convert it into the Japanese language. In translation, keep numbers as it is and make it sentence case (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and noun).

Her most publicized departure, however, was in 1996;

Show your work and conclude with the exact phrasing "Therefore, the final answer is [answer]." where [answer] is just the final number or expression that solves the problem.
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しかしながら、彼女が最も世間に注目されながら去ったのは、1996年のことでした。